How do you get someone to follow me with the trailer during a harvest.

[dominique.courotchkine]

Hello, maybe someone can help me.
I would like to know how do you get someone to follow me with the trailer during a harvest?

[jeremyj621]

If you're referring to an AI worker, there (still) is no way to do that. You have to hire the worker to operate the combine while you follow alongside with a trailer.

[Rubberduck]

there are several mods out there you can do that. i prefare courseplay in combination with autodrive. once you set up your course the helpers will do it for you. at the beginning it may be a bit tricky to figure it out but once you are able to set it up it works really good.

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

Autodrive will follow your harvester quite nicely. Simple set up an unloader as usual (set to same field of course) and start harvesting, do headlands as usual only calling the unloader when parked. When you are into up and down rows put the pipe out to call the unloader and they will drive up alongside you and follow - can take them a while to react though. They will stop just before you reach the headland and they will NOT follow/unload you if it means driving through crops (regardless of the avoid fruit setting) they just drive behind you until you turn again, so it only works every other pass.

I should add that the AD drivers sometimes get confused/lost/go-completely-mad and that you have to be a bit considerate with your driving (steady pace, straight line etc.) but it usually works pretty well and you soon learn the tricks to minimise problems.

Given how complex what Autodrive has to do is, it works surprisingly well most of the time.

[dominique.courotchkine]

to jeremyj621
how to hire a worker?

To Rubberduck can you give me the name of one of these mods?

To Mark just unfolding the nozzle will make the trailer follow us automatically?

Thanks a lot for your answers.

[Rubberduck]

the names of the mods .... hmmmm ... ahhh yeah "courseplay" -> is for the fieldwork.
"autodrive" is a mod that lets you create courses all over the map and drive your helpers to the destination you choose. then give it over to courseplay and let the fieldwork be done.
lots of youtubes out there to explain courseplay and autodrive.

[jeremyj621]

To hire a worker, the default key is 'h'. Drive the combine into position, press the key, and the AI worker will begin harvesting. You can then jump to a vehicle with a trailer and follow alongside the worker.

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

Originally posted by dominique.courotchkine:

To Mark just unfolding the nozzle will make the trailer follow us automatically?

Using the "Autodrive" mod, yes.

Of course if you have never used Autodrive there is quite a lot of set up work involved - creating routes to fields, sell points, silos ect. (there are a lot of good how-to's on YouTube, those by The Farmsim Guy and Scroft are good). There are also some online guides that are worth bookmarking - here's a good one https://www.univers-simu.com/en/modhub/farming-simulator-22/scripts/autodrive-farming-simulator-22-notre-guide-complet-17278/

It's well worth the effort in the long run as you can automate so many aspects of your farming.

Autodrive is not perfect, and can be frustrating at times when drivers don't do what you want (or just sit there) but most of the time it is a pretty marvellous add on.