ez steer good enough for 6 inch overlap on airdrill?

[poorboy]

Looking at putting an ez steer with t2 and waas signal into my 4 wheel drive tractor pulling airdrill. The system will pay for itself if I can cut my overlap down to about 4-6 inches consistently. I have lots of hills and seed about 6 mph. Will I be happy with this system and waas? It will go into a JD 9300 tractor.

[dfarms11]

dont know yet but thats what we are installing!

[seedsman]

I seeded with EZ-Steer and WAAS for most of last spring. Accuracy was usually about /- 4 inches of better. However, we lost our signal almost once a day for 10 - 15 minutes and had to stop, or else drive manually. Drift is also a concern with WAAS. Can be up to a couple of feet during a short period on some days. Other days drift was minimal. You can compensate for satellite drift by using the "nudge" feature.

Go to this website.

http://u15205752.onlinehome-server.com/forums/forum-view.asp?fid=6

In the last few weeks there has been a great amount of discussion about EZ-Steer. Some growers are even using it for planting sugar beets with the Omnistar XP signal.

[Southpaw]

We farm north of Brandon, and had a WAAS receiver. Next to useless! Kept losing signal. Finally had to go to a Trimble receiver and then no problems. Really depends where you are and how good the signal is.

[just_wondering]

we have just finished seeding over 10,000 acres with 2 e-z steers have set the overlap too 1 ft just 2b on the safe side of satalite drift now that the crop is up at most times we could have set itfor 6 inches, the most noticible difference is operator fatigue is much less also don't forget to get your EFP money 30% off is too good to pass up.

[rodedgar]

I use Accutrak with a 36' seeder. I set my width at 36'4" and the gap is anywhere from about 0 to 10". This eliminates overlap but the last pass in the field often is only 20' wide so that kills any savings. After 2 years of seeding and spraying with it I don't think there is much of a savings from reduced overlap. Unless you were overlapping 10% consistently. We used to overlap about 6" on 33' so not much savings.