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Foresight Replaces Implement Markers
Here's a new low-cost way to guide your tractors and implements more efficiently through fields without using markers or looking backward. Called Foresight, the device allows the operator to monitor his path by looking forward and aligning the Foresight flag to the furrow made by his last pass.
The patented syste
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Foresight Replaces Implement Markers PLANTERS Planters 6-5-25 Here's a new low-cost way to guide your tractors and implements more efficiently through fields without using markers or looking backward. Called Foresight, the device allows the operator to monitor his path by looking forward and aligning the Foresight flag to the furrow made by his last pass.
The patented system parallels a gun sight in function and accuracy, according to Concord Inc., Fargo, N. Dak. By varying the setting of the Foresight, implements from 25 to 100 ft. in width can be guided with an overlap margin of just inches.
The unit consists of an arm mounted on an angle on each side of the frame that adjusts up and down. For wider equipment, the arms would be set higher, and vice versa for narrower machines.
The "flags" that attach to the top of the arms provide added accuracy. You align these with the angle of the furrow as it looks from the tractor seat to "fine tune" the marker for extra precision.
"Foresight is the best guidance device we've ever had," says South Dakota farmer Jim Nickeson, of Veblen. "I can sit looking forward in my 4-wheel drive and seed with my 40 ft. air seeder, or put down chemicals with my 70 ft. incorporator, within 6 in. of the last pass."
Hillside operation poses no problems as the unit is self-leveling and also has shock-absorbing capability built into it to keep it steady or bumpy fields.
Weighing 110 lbs., the sight guide takes about one hour to install on the front of the tractor. It mounts on any tractor using existing boltholes, or ir some cases drilling 2 holes in the tractor side panels.
Foresight sells for $495. The unit is available with an electronically powered regulator that lets you automatically adjust the arms from the tractor seat.
For more information, contact FARM SHOW Followup, Concord Inc., 2800 7th Ave. North, Fargo, N. Dak. 58102 (ph 701 280-1260).
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