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Work Pattern
Efficient?
Today°s big power • tractors
and wide implements are Chang -
Mg the tra'. tional patterns off
field work. Big rigs are acre -
eaters working down the fur-
rows, but they are not made for
corner turns that once were
considered a key part of tillage.
Farmers may need to make
some changes in field patterns
to get the best out of their trac-
tors and implements.
"The primary objective in es-
tablishing an • efficient field pat-
tern is to minimize the amount
of field travel," says Donnell
Hunt, University of Illinois
agricultural engineer." The num-
ber of non -working turns, the
travel distance in a turn and the
amount of non -working travel
in the interior of a field all add
up to lower efficiency."
These drawings shows some
favorite field patterns. Today,
most farmers plow with a head-
land system. Circuitous patterns
with rounded corners or turn
strips. at the diagonals just
don't work well with today's
six to eight bottom plows.
It takes a larger headland to
turn big plows. However, this
disadvantage is offset by less
compaction since there is less
travel over the headland. Len
Schreiber, manager of Allis-
Chalmers Implement Merchan-
. dising, says, "Too many farm-
ers are not allowing enough
turning space. They use six or
eight row headlands. That isn't
enough for an eight bottom
plow,. The outer corner of a big
implement swings at high veloc-
ity and can cause damage if
.there isn't plenty of room."
For discing, chisel plowing,
and cultivating, big implements
do have a large advantage over
the smaller models of a decade
ago. There's no way an 8 -ft.
disc could be turned to go in' a
continuous back and forth pat-
tern. When getting 'up in the
16- to 18 -ft. widths, tractors can
make the turn and greatly im-
prove field efficiency.
"Raise, these implements out
of the ground when making a
turn," Schreiber advises. "Too
many farmers are making 90
degree and 180 degree turns
with the implement in the
ground. This puts a lot of stress
on the end serving as the pivot."
The probl� is that gauge
wheels of chis plows and field
cultivators usually don't. pivot.
This put stresses on the gauge
wheel that it is not designed to
tolerate., Schreiber points out
that this can be a problem in
circuitous patterns. Instead of
going around and around the
field, he advises a continuous
pattern with implements lifted
on turns.
Hitches are designed to pull
straight ahead. When a sharp
turn is made with the imple-
ment in the ground, stresses are
created that the tool is not de-
signed, to handle,
Also the new articulated four-
wheel drive tractors create side-
ways turning stresses for which
older implements were not de-
signed. This kind of turning ac-
tion requires special considera-
tion by the operator to avoid
damage to rigid type hitches.
How wide should the lands
be? The wider the land, the less
time spent with the plow in the
ground. Width of land depends
on how much time a farmer
HOLL , +moo HoRNE
Bob Crane frets
over .brashness
By NANCY ANDERSON
HOLLY WOOD — ob
Crane, back on television in a
new NBC series about a mid-
dle-aged executive who en-
rolls in medical school, says
his physical appearance is a
problem.
Through no fault of his own,
he just simply looks too
cocky.
"That was one off the prob-
lems with 'Hogan's Heroes'
and that's one of the prob-
lems with the new show," he
says, "and I recognize it.
"Because of my physical
image, there's a little too
much brashness, a little too
much self-assurance.
"Like someone once said,
'When you do a talk show, you
have a tendency to take over.'
"And I said, 'I really don't
want to. But my training was
in broadcasting where for 17
years I was always conscious
that we were three seconds
from dead air, so I had to
keep it moving.'
"So, when an interviewer
BOB CRANE—Just looks too
cocky.
asks mune, 'How was your trip
over here today?' I'll do five
minutes on my trip over, only
because I think that's what he
watt*:
"But then when A see that
interview on the air, I think,
'This is awful. I'm exhausted
from listening to my own
voice,'
"I have this tendency
which I also sce in other -
people, and when I do, I think,
'That's what I've got to guard
against.'
"The two people I see this
in most are two Roberts,
Robert Wagner and Robert
Vaughn. When Vaughn was
the 'Man From,U.N.C.L.E.,'
he'd be backed against the
wall in front of a firing squad,
and he'd get off some smart
remark, and I'd want to
punch him in the teeth.
"But then I'd look again
and think, 'That's just the
way I'd do it.—
William Christopher, the
chaplain in "M -AS -H," says
he's learned that where hu-
mor's concerned, "Things
that are offensive tend to be
the things you can do with-
out."
So far as he knows,
"M -AS -H" has no hard-and-
fast rules as to what can and
can't go on the air, but he
says jokes about the sacra-
ments of the church aren't
acceptable.
"We had a joke about the
chalice," Christopher says,
"and that was dropped. Then
there was another funny
scene that began with a guy
saying to me, 'Father, I want
to confess.'
"Because confession is a
sacrament, that line was
changed to, 'Father, I want to
talk with you,' or something
Most popular patterns today
Continuous, turn strips each end. Headland from back furrow.
can afford to spend making
turns.
Straight lands are important.
If they taper, row problems
may develop both in planting
and at harvest. It` may pay to
have lands staked to make sure
they are parallel. Once estab-
lished in rotations with •continu-
ous corn/ soybean combinations,
the back furrows are easy to
locate and follow. Irregular
fields present special problems.
Farms should be studied to
see if the most efficient field
patterns are being used in con-
nection with the equipment be-
ing operated. With todays' in-
vestment in equipment and la-
bor rates, farmers cannot afford
to waste travel time.
Patterns not well suited ta big equipment
Circuitous, turn strips at corners. Headland from boundaries.
J
Circuitous, rounded corners.
about like that."
However, Christopher did.
play a scene in w, laoh the
priest was obviously drunk
during a sermon.
"And, the only conuneii
I've heard about t,'° he
says, "was favorable. As II
said, 11 I,n't know that _we
have any set rules governing
censorship, but we've not
only dropped jokes involving
the sacraments, we don't use
a laugh track the operating
room.
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