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| For implement accuracy it probably ought to be at the center of the implement ON the implement. No doubt that will make the tractor wander about, especially on hillsides, but probably no more error than having the antenna on top the tractor with the tractor tilted.
It would seem to me that if the antenna was directly over the tractors center of pivot that it would hold the tractor position best, though that bustle wiggle will move the drawn or mounted implement. So its important that the strip tiller and the planter have the same mounted or drawn geometry. Probably on a none articulated wheel tractor that center of pivot is the center of the rear axle. Its somewhere forward of that on the tracked tractor but probably over either axle center on an articulated tractor.
Way back when cultivating with a 3 point cultivator it was learned (the hard way) that if one got too close to a row that a rapid adjustment cost the crop for a few feet while a gradual adjustment might not add to the damage. That wiggle still is a factor with the strip till and the planter. Which is most important? Straight tractor wheel tracks or straight rows? If its straight rows, then the antenna needs to be on the implement.
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Anyone else used a cyclo tool bar for Dawn Strip till set up?
