Spreading Fertiliser On Bare Ground ?

pakalasa

Guys, without GPS , how do ye spread fertiliser on bare ground ?
With fading eyesights and all that, it becomes harder and harder to see the last track. I've started using those white electric fence posts and just pace out the distance. A pain, but at least I don't be overlapping and going all over the place.

F.D

Its a pain after silage is cut alright My GPS is my wife get her to step out across the field, work out great and luckily she has the patience to do it
before that i was always out either stripes missed or overlapped
Wonder how many tons per year you would have to spread to justify buying one of those gps ??

bogman_bass

I'm looking forward to seeing what stripes i have after spraying 4 loads of roundup with a 12 foot sprayer!

Muckit

Yes I've mentioned this topic here before, but some of the dairy lads dismissed it as not an issue! Everyone knows their own spreader/field etc etc..... I spread some bag yesterday evening on stuff cut two weeks ago, wouldn't dream of going any earlier as might as well let Stevie Wonder spread it. It's gone too dear to throw out willy nilly, 10 bags of 10-10-20 cost me 240 smackers:eek:

I feel that whole adage 'it takes grass to grow grass' rings true most of the time and that grass given a shot once greened up will still reach the same level of cover in the same time as bag fired onto stubble.

moy83

So long as it doesnt go into the briars or over the walls I dont mind a few stripes . Isnt there a blobber that drops blobs of foam on the ground as your driving to show you were you travelled last

td5man

moy83 wrote: »

So long as it doesnt go into the briars or over the walls I dont mind a few stripes . Isnt there a blobber that drops blobs of foam on the ground as your driving to show you were you travelled last

Thats what im thinking of doing

http://farmingforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?11025-homemande-blob-marker

td5man

http://farmingforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?11025-homemande-blob-marker

bbam

Funny.
This thread made me smile. I thought I was the only one

49801

bought a cheap gps at start of this year. waste of 500euro tbh.
need to spend over 1k to get a gps worth having. that said did find it handyish in the spring time spreading fert in the dark and on bare ground after silage was cut. but the gps i have does wander 15ft.

i think you should just use your experience and no big deal if you wander bit in grassland.

wish i had paced out the permenant fencing posts at a 15m interval so could use those as a reliable guide.
blobers suppose to be good too

Muckit

moy83 wrote: »

Isnt there a blobber that drops blobs of foam on the ground as your driving to show you were you travelled last

http://www.portek.co.uk/FoamAlign_General.html

Never even knew such a thing existed. You live and learn. Anyone ever use one?

Sam Kade

F.D wrote: »

Its a pain after silage is cut alright My GPS is my wife get her to step out across the field, work out great and luckily she has the patience to do it
before that i was always out either stripes missed or overlapped
Wonder how many tons per year you would have to spread to justify buying one of those gps ??

Drive at right angles to the direction it was cut I bet your wife will be glad when she hears that.

leg wax

oh lads i would love too have some of them big fields to get lost in.

st1979

49801 wrote: »

bought a cheap gps at start of this year. waste of 500euro tbh.
need to spend over 1k to get a gps worth having. that said did find it handyish in the spring time spreading fert in the dark and on bare ground after silage was cut. but the gps i have does wander 15ft.

i think you should just use your experience and no big deal if you wander bit in grassland.

wish i had paced out the permenant fencing posts at a 15m interval so could use those as a reliable guide.
blobers suppose to be good too

Which gps system is 500. Is it the one from ebay based on a pocket pc. Saw these but never heard what people who use them actually taught

49801

st1979 wrote: »

Which gps system is 500. Is it the one from ebay based on a pocket pc. Saw these but never heard what people who use them actually taught

Rather not say publicly but I sent you a pm.

freedominacup

49801 wrote: »

Rather not say publicly but I sent you a pm.

That bad:eek:?

freedominacup

freedominacup wrote: »

That bad:eek:?

Go on tell us, we're all friends here.











Friends who are only dying to give you a good kicking when you're down mind:D.











We haven't had someone to really rip the p**s out f for a week now, just tell us and suck it up:P.

moy83

freedominacup wrote: »

Go on





Friends who are only dying to give you a good kicking when you're down mind:D.











We haven't had someone to really rip the p**s out f for a week now, just tell us and suck it up:P.

He must've manured the neighbours fields with it or something !

49801

freedominacup wrote: »

That bad:eek:?

Not THAT bad. Just device is not that good.