Posted by notjustair on June 20, 2016 at 21:07:32 from (70.195.1.134):
I'm still madly trying to get beans in. The wheat is ready of course. So today I put my partner on the combine and she cut while I planted. Of course the combine broke down twice. Nothing major.
Here's the puzzle. I use a Raven Cruiser 2 GPS to plant. I plant with markers as well. Basically I do my headlands and then snap the line with the GPS. I do this so spraying is easy and I can set that GPS to follow this one. After that straight line is set I just use the markers. I can plant much straighter with markers but leave the GPS running to track acres for seed refill. Both times the combine broke down I idled the tractor down, left the GPS and seed vacuum running, and went to fix the combine. Took a good chunk of time each time. When I left the tractor it was in the neighborhood of .2-.4 off of my snapped line. I have never known whether that's degrees or what - guys with GPS units will know what I mean. It's the deviation from parallel with your straight start line. Anyway, when I came back each time it was suddenly 2.2 - 2.4 off. I ignored it that pass and used my markers and within two passes it was back to normal - the whole numbers had corrected themselves and we're back to partials. It seemed the longer I was gone the more off it was but always in whole numbers.
I was totally puzzled. I'm thinking maybe it's because of the Earth's rotation. Is that realistic? The tractor is in a different position in "space" even though it hasn't moved. Plausible?
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