Free Bales

[wildberry]

Required Mods: GPS, Follow Me, Auto Unlaod Round Bales*
*probably the auto-unload mod is not needed but I did not test without

How-to:
+ I drive my tractor and round baler to a field of a neighbour that is ready to harvest
+ park it at the side where I will start my proper harvesting run
+ unfold the baler, lower it, switch it on... pop out, start the mission, do a round of the field, and here it starts for real:
+ I exit the harvester, go to the tractor and line it up behind the harvester
**you have 10 seconds to do so, if it takes to long, jump out and climb back into tractor as it resets the 10 seconds
+ once behind the harvester, regular follow me procedure...
I use the GPS mod after having done a round of te field, so I just I have it autoturn at end

What it looks like when you're doing the mission:


What it looks like AFTER the mission... free bales!


[edit]don't forget to switch on the swath in the harvester, of course![/edit]

[FordFarmer97]

Wow! That's pretty clever!

[Smith Modding]

Pretty nifty! I've thought about doing that, as I knew that follow me would work like that, but I ended up on the West Coast and I don't think that map has missions

[JohnDeere318]

Clever indeed.

[wildberry]

The square baler is actually almost twice the price/lease, thus I am using the round baler.

[redglasses]

That is pretty good, indead free bales

[wildberry]

In my example above I was on Field 18 of Sosnovka... made 75 bales, making 33579 $ (on Hard settings) on top of the regular mission fee!
I also use the Seasons mod, btw

[redglasses]

so basically you can make 200-300% more doing this method

[wildberry]

so basically you can make 200-300% more doing this method

yes, and all you need to do is steal your neighbour's swath

[redglasses]

^^lol

[BulletBill]

Pretty nifty! I've thought about doing that, as I knew that follow me would work like that, but I ended up on the West Coast and I don't think that map has missions

The West Coast has 8 fields with missions on them.

They Field "For Sale Sign" has a "Mission" sticker on the sign to help you identify which field has missions.

[Smith Modding]

Thanks bulletbill! That's great to know

[wildberry]

I play with Seasons (3 day seasons as I have no patience). First day of harvesting with almost all fields wheat or barley I made 380k, second day 80k, and I still have to pick up bales from 4 fields... I never knew baling was this profitable!

BulletBill's maps rock!