Near-north Ontario, French River | Jim one reason, and this is only a guess for not running spreaders is that the heads on these machines are only 12ft wide so the spread pattern would be relatively small anyway, so narrow that perhaps the spinner would be going so slow that the wet gooey gobs coming out the the machine would just build up on the spinner, insteat of being flung around. Now having said that the machines tend to run in echelons around the field. So no reason that the spread patterns couldnt be offet to one side, for instance set to spread 25ft wide pattern, directed to the side vs straight back. You would need the capability to shut off the spreader when breaking fields open etc as you wouldnt want to be spreading residue onto unharvested areas, or roads /adjoining lowns etc. As others have said the vast majority of the residue coming out the the harvestor is pods, and they tend to be ground up fairly well, the amount of actual residue is much less then it appears in the photos. |
Pea Harvest started in Southern MN a Few Pics
