Brought my 6080 to the 21st Century

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   One of the many projects i worked on this winter was building some complete RTK autosteer systems for my Allis's. The 6080 is finished, and the 8050 is 90%. Its functional, but still needs a few brackets finished up. I'm using AgOpenGPS which is a free opensource software/community developed project where everybody shares their files and designs. The steering gears and mounts are 3D printed here in my garage with a mix of my own and others designs, the PCB's and electronics are sourced from China, $200 Panasonic tablet, the steering angle sensor is for a Land Rover, the steering motor is a $70 24v motor, and a lot of hours spent soldering and wiring it all together. Total cost is around $1200, obviously not including my time involved. 

For those that aren't familiar with GPS, RTK means repeatable sub-inch accuracy through the field. In theory if i have everything working perfect and dialed in i can plant with my 8050 and 6 row planter, and then sidedress with my 6080 and 12 row applicator and never have to manually steer it. In all reality my biggest thing is i have very little time to actually sit in a tractor seat, so with my small equipment its all about efficiency and ease of operation. This software can drive on boundary curves,  automatic u-turns at your headlands, skip lines if you're using a small implement, and can also do rate and section control for planter/sprayer/whatever. I run a 60ft Hardi behind my 6080 and it will have auto section control this year. If you were to go buy all this from mother Deere or Ag Leader you could blow past $10k pretty easy and still have subscriptions and unlocks to deal with. 

Heres a couple videos from spreading fertilizer the other 
night. All i had to was run the hydraulic remote to turn the spreader 
drive on and off, the tractor handled all the steering on its own. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/EV7bhFbwZ5c?si=Rvrp2i2sEwhZkfVr
https://youtube.com/shorts/4jo8pHO7uaA?si=_cnM0JFH17O7vYZA

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