[aussie.ltd.]

Mate sent his 38t chaser bin to the guys at Oztec in Towoomba to develop a conveyor setup for other bins other than their own bin so you can stay in the tramlines while unloading on the run, my Oztec 30t tramliner is such a good bin this year will be its 7th wheat harvest without any issues with the platform so if the retro fit setup is as good it should be a good option, it won't be cheap 20-25K probably but I do think it's a better option tha extending your header auger at least if the bin breaks you can still harvest. Claas guys are looking at extending the auger on a couple of Lexions to do 12m unloading, this is a wild setup that involves at least 2m extension on a 3XL auger with an extra long boot at the end, with some of the investigating I have done the Horsch extension that folds had a few problems the first year but I havnt found any more reports about how it's going now. Case and New Holland both have augers that unload into 12m tramlines has anyone been running this setup and how is it going? Do you invisage any dramas? CTF is hard work but good results are achieved

 

[bud]

What kind of results are you seeing with CTF? Here in Canada the results have been very inconclusive so far.

 

[aussie.ltd.]

That should have been Combines in the thread title. We switched to full on CTF about 7yrs ago, 3m wheel tracks and 12m implements, I find here were we farm we seem to get more cropping opportunities using zero til and CTF, it doesn't seem to take as much rain to wet the undisurbed ground especially if you don't have random wheel tracks everywhere, our climate is fairly dry and warm as well, in a wetter or colder climate where your ground freezes and then thaws using CTF might be differnt but I like it in our climate, the 12m and 3m setup with all our machinery matching this setup means only 9% of the field has wheel tracks and compaction, the fact that all our wheel tracks are in the one place makes it easy to work around them as far as planting goes with the use of RTK guidance we can interrow fertilise and plant the next crop to the side of the last plant line especially in cereal crops with little effort, fertilising wheat in-crop gives us an opportunity to see how the season is shaping up before throwing to much money at the crop and not getting a lot of in crop rain makes it hard to get the timing right for spreading fert on. We have seen fuel savings and less compaction using this system and a lot better crops we grow wheat, barley, chickpeas and canola as our winter crops and sorghum, corn and mungbeans as summer crops, the soil structure is so much better across the the tramlines which makes root development so much easier for the plant, our heavy black soils go as hard as **** from wheel tracks and stay soft without traffic which helps our disc planters do a great job not having to break through compacted areas and get the crop off to a great start , it normally just goes to sh#€ after that

 

[Dak]

don't know if I like the idea of extending header auger either,
would much prefer to do the bin thing!
I am only doing this on 9m & have found I don't need to
extend anything actually i have to fold te auger back a little
to run o tramtrax!
Also in our soft dirt prefer to run narrower width to keep weight down..:trac1: