Once paddling under the Wartburg Road bridge there are a number of small and easily read rapids. John Deere is named after the big flat rock that is in the river left of centre and marks the optimal starting line for this rapid, which is best shot well left of the big rocks and on the extreme left of the shelf, where you drop into a channel that always has water, even in low river conditions. Follow the water all the way out of the rapid.

In a fuller river there are alternate lines down John Deere, notably on the right of the shelf, but in anything less than a medium river flow this is a site of huge congestion!