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shorty
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autofarm on swather
« Thread Started on Aug 26, 2009, 10:35am »
i am running an auto farm wheel on an m150 swather and it doesnt work well it swerves back and forth really bad and i have talk to tech support and we still havent got it working to were it is satisfactory any help would be great oh an my setting are
motor 3
lookahead 2.5
responce is 4.5
the rest are the usuall settings
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Re: autofarm on swather
« Reply #1 on Aug 28, 2009, 5:55am »
we just took delivery of an m200, put trimble ezy steer 500 in & it was doing the same as yours. I havent been fully involved in the calibration, I'm not sure of the usual settings but the tech guy found a swath delay setting which made a difference, try to have receiver as far forward as possible almost over the head, nav controller or terrain compensator box works better horizontal on floor, not vertical. Hope this helps
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Re: autofarm on swather
« Reply #2 on Oct 7, 2009, 7:52am »
Did you guys get the steering working? I am in the process of setting up the JD ATU wheel on an M200. Any tips
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Re: autofarm on swather
« Reply #3 on Oct 7, 2009, 6:55pm »
JD ATU 200 wheel works great in these swathers. If the steering feels tight there are some nuts on the steering mechinism under the cab that can be loostened off as well as the chain tension right under the steering column.
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Re: autofarm on swather
« Reply #4 on Oct 8, 2009, 9:24pm »
an update i riped the auto farm out and put a jd 200 with a gs2 1800 monitor worked great and the whole harvest crew loved it
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Re: autofarm on swather
« Reply #5 on Oct 18, 2009, 3:14am »
How easy are the JD ATU 200 wheels to fit to Macdon M150?
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Re: autofarm on swather
« Reply #6 on Nov 7, 2009, 9:07am »
very easy, just a clamp around the steering column and a pin bolted to the atu
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Re: autofarm on swather
« Reply #7 on Nov 15, 2009, 3:34am »
The only trick is to get the reciever as far forward of the cab as you can, as long as you do this the ATU200 performs very well on the M series
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Re: autofarm on swather
« Reply #8 on Nov 15, 2009, 8:07pm »
Stay away from autofarm. I know a bunch of guys around here that have them, none work well at all. I have trimble rtk, and it works flawlessly day in day out.
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Re: autofarm on swather
« Reply #9 on Nov 16, 2009, 11:30am »
Have installed a couple of dozen ezsteers on swathers without any issues. calibration and setup are pretty straightforward. Units work well.
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Re: autofarm on swather
« Reply #10 on Nov 17, 2009, 10:46am »
Which Autofarm system are you having trouble with? We're looking at getting a M150 for next year and want to auto-steer it. Autofarm makes an integrated hydraulic system for the Macdon swathers that looks pretty slick. Depending on what it would end up costing, its an option we're seriously considering.

Has anyone run the Autofarm integrated system in a Macdon swather? Happy with it? Does it perform better than the various portable options (Deere ATU, EZ-Steer, Raven/Autofarm Smart Steer)?

Thanks
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Re: autofarm on swather
« Reply #11 on Dec 5, 2009, 3:11pm »
Would like to know if the autofarm users that watglen referred to got their money back.
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