2019 Planting: Zells 214ft Airseeder (worlds largest planter)

Gav Zell planting the 2019 winter crop in northern NSW Australia.
Pulled by a Baldwin the 214ft airseeder plants a hectare a minute.
This paddock was last sown in 2016 and has been fallowed since due to drought and lack of stored soil moisture.

[@noname-zs4ev]

- farmer: oké so I have this really big seeder and i need an air cart to go with it. - dealer: gow about this one? this is our largest air cart. - farmer: looks good I'll take two.

[@nordins157]

jij ook nederlands?

[@tomaat4119]

@@nordins157 hoi

[@jimstepan3038]

😂🤣💥

[@timobrandsema9700]

Moi

[@europalette3640]

Greasing that thing must be a nightmare

[@andrewlund5399]

EU4 Boy7 driving that thing would be a nightmare

[@FastDuDeJiunn]

@@andrewlund5399 driving it not so much. you get used to it and i think ur not realizing they are in a very open space. not like they are taking this to town or in traffic. i would like to see how they move it. my biggest fear is changing all the points when they wear out lol.

[@hsp3156]

NOO NOPE they fold it in the Long bar from the traktor and out to the seeder

[@markwelschmeyer2426]

you not not talking tubes per day but cases per day. lol. bring a milwaukee with at lest 2 9.0 ah batteries.

[@southjerseysound7340]

My uncle's farm installed automatic systems on their big gear. You pretty much just press the button every few hours and keep the tub full of grease.

[@JonDingle]

Brilliant! that field must be nearly as big as England to make that set up pay. Great video, very well made and for a change I don't mind the music. Top marks.

[@no0ne69_3]

DingleZilla looks like Australia so probably about right haha.

[@mentholman3201]

Thank you for sharing this! I have searched and searched for info about this seeder since your last vid.

[@swisscheeze3919]

Bet the guys at welker farms would like to cover that much area this quickly.

[@JEEPmanDAVE]

I bet anyone would lol

[@SomeTechGuy666]

With only 600HP pulling, it wouldn't go very fast in their soil conditions. To make that unit productive in US soil conditions, you'd need at least 1,000 HP. Even then, it is only 500HP per 100' of seeder. That soil looks really light and dried out. Easy to pull there. And Welker doesn't actually farm that much land.

[@cleetusmacfarland9453]

@@SomeTechGuy666 it acctually looks like it might have been re-engined, all the other photos I've seen of a DP600 look shorter in the nose and have a single stack, and from what I'm reading on forums and news articles he's been running tandem master/slave JD9T's since 2011, and the baldwin is retired

[@kadendonnay2663]

@@cleetusmacfarland9453 He actually retired the John Deere 9400t's for now and it looks like he re-powered the Baldwin. Perhaps with a QST30 Cummins? Not exactly sure but twin stacks and air cleaners tells me V12.

[@guythattrolls]

Welkers do not farm much when considering there are farms in the US and Canada that produce over 50,000 acres. Welkers produce what? 5,000 acres? which is average for their area.

[@jmv2015]

Dont know if I should feel more impressed by the planter or the inmese field in the background.

[@flatoutt1]

it's not a field it's a paddock .[aussie dryland .you can have "field " for irrigation ] and i love being pedantic . we do love the yanks but don't want to be totally swamped by their cultural imperialism .

[@TheFullyChargedGardener]

😀 Fair play - the scale of that set up is awesome! 👍🏻

[@daviddingle5534]

Really appreciate you shareing your drone footage m8 well done..credit to you

[@keltonskinner9469]

That would cover all my acres in one pass haha

[@BACKTHEBLUETRUMP]

Welcome back

[@jimstepan3038]

Awesome machinery! I love the soaring music!!

[@chadwilliams2973]

This is how you feed the world ☺ thank god for farmers!!!

[@kirbs1774]

Nice work Casey! great to see enough moisture around to get planting around the place!

[@TarrawingeeFarm]

Thanks Dale, Still very patchy around the place but better than nothing!

[@paulvalkenburg100]

@@TarrawingeeFarm if I was smart I could work out 214 ft to 1 hectare per minute to work out ground speed. But it's a lot easier just to ask. What is your ground speed? By the way I must have watched the other zells air seeder video 10 times. It blows my mind.

[@dannelson2364]

@@paulvalkenburg100 Have to be 7 mph to get 1 Ha/minute

[@Lordy29]

@@paulvalkenburg100 9.25km/hr it works out to be.

[@paulvalkenburg100]

@@Lordy29 cheers 👍

[@dwaynekoblitz6032]

Holy crap! You would have to be an artist to drive that thing. Going around the tree was cool as heyell.

[@Ole_CornPop]

Autosteer sure does help. Lol

[@matthewkenny6401]

Great video, used to drive past a few times a year. If it were me I'd be filling with 2 trucks at once ✌🏼

[@laurie2510]

You know a seeder is huge when it has TWO aircarts

[@danielleheiget4517]

The people repenting my neighbours land run double carts so they can put fertilizer down too. Things loud af sounds like a bomb siren

[@enno1136]

But the cards are relativly smal tho

[@coreysandness2529]

@@danielleheiget4517 p

[@RB-gk1fi]

Nice work👍great video.

[@pierrotgretillat9365]

C est beau de la folie tank you vidéo magnifique super

[@lloyddodds8842]

One of my father in law’s tractors....Baldwin DP 600....built in 1970s.....

[@gregrankin1324]

I remember seeing Baldwin on the prince Phillip design awards; an adjunct to the series, THE INVENTORS on ABC and man they really are tractors. One bloke at Moura had six. I'd like to know what other history you have on the iconic company. There's also Waltana; that built robust AUSTRALIAN 4wd tractors and Upton that finished with huge hp 2wd tractors. All mostly killed by stupid import tariffs. There's a real story here that needs telling.

[@davidepool5884]

Row cropping sure has com a long way since I was a kid!

[@garrettheyerdahl4123]

This is not a row crop. Or a planter. It's a air drill for small grains etc.

[@user-bi5nw3cy8x]

As an Aussie , they are called Air Seeders , and if it wasn't for guidance , there would be plenty of character

[@davidepool5884]

When I said row cropping I meant that the crop is in rows, I wasn’t referring to the planter/air drill. I also meant that farming equipment has changed a lot. That’s just what we call that type of farming around where I live. Air drills weren’t around when I was a kid. Thanks for your comment. The biggest planter I ever used was a 12 row. The biggest disk I ever pulled was 23 foot.

[@lukabok4225]

We just bought brand new six row corn planter and I thought it was insane how you can plant so accurately at 20 km/h and then I saw this video...

[@d.j.ghetoswift1206]

That planter has it's own area code!!!

[@Fuckyougoogle4life]

That machine must be a pain to turn around in. Nice video

[@carterbowe9964]

We need this in fs 19!

[@mikey9710]

It already is

[@carterbowe9964]

@@mikey9710 really? for console or pc only?

[@mikey9710]

Pc only

[@felixolauzzon]

And 17 for gamers like me!

[@mikey9710]

@@felixolauzzon it's in 17 as well but again it's for PC only :)

[@bobbyharvill4225]

You could cover an area the size of Rosie o Donnell in a little under a month, if you ran twenty four hours a day. And eat on the run. Oh, and urinate while the gps is driving. Almost forgot.... You gotta refuel on the go too.

[@aarons5259]

bobby harvill what about Amy Schumer?

[@scottgilbraith2534]

Think that up all by yourself or did ya?

[@nealfigary3288]

That’s funny I don’t care who you are lol

[@Mr83goat]

You don't do that when your planting?

[@deborahstein]

Maybe fuel it on the move like the Air Force does it’s Fighters but with a tanker’copter

[@ronaldcasselman1190]

I WANT A VIDEO ON HOW THIS THING FOLDS FOR TRANSPORT PLEASE REALLY WONDERING dammit my caps was on sorry....greatly appreciated if i can get a fold up transport video LOVE THIS

[@ronaldcasselman1190]

I SUBCRIBED N DINGED BELL FOR NEW VIDS ...again why does my caps still.........

[@agrartechnikmv]

Big Monster very nice Video Greets Marko (Germany)

[@dunkelheit843]

That was breathtaking to see, amazing. I really liked the song aswell, what is the title and artist? Thanks!

[@herouxyou]

Song for Michael - Magic In The Other

[@JinxLiam]

I was like “it can’t be that big” And then I saw the two carts it needed

[@ivanmagnabosco8892]

Finalmente um video

[@randlerichardson5826]

That’s a big tractor to. It takes equipment that big and bigger to farm them huge farms.

[@tonyamenta8098]

Curious if this unit has swath control.

[@rogerwalsberg]

How does it turn at the end of the row? If your field goes around the world the you dont need to turn.

[@eurodestination]

I worked on two farms in Moree. One owned by Jack Young, Koroogamma, and the other his neighbour John Seery. 1990 / 91.

[@brucerae5522]

Wasn't sure if that was Swanhill way or between st George an Moree. That lovely black clay. My wallet says that country looks best with hoggets an beef covering it.

[@user-bi5nw3cy8x]

@@brucerae5522 I believe Collarenebri

[@Roman-od4sz]

Wow awesome 👍👍👍👍

[@randlerichardson5826]

That’s a bunch of big time farming equipment.

[@barneybetelgeuse6273]

That's insane 😃👍

[@donaldmckenna6950]

Love to know if that's a two piece planter and how It folds up my god is that fn huge

[@TuffBurnOutTeam]

Talk about nice Equipment there

[@herouxyou]

What is the name of this amazing soundtrack?

[@pjw7269]

Any drone footage of this vast field growing? Harvesting? Thanks for posting! Do you have many tube plug ups? How can one man watch that many tubes!? Co-pilot?

[@LOSTXPLAYGUN]

Cool video, some really nice power equipment. But the music turned me off, really like to hear the tillage.

[@amacdona32]

Hopefully some of the predicted June falls hits your way.

[@tomnewham1269]

Great footage but I have to ask, what happened to the two John Deere tractors that were first used with this seeder?

[@rearspeaker6364]

got tagged in detroit diesel blue, then set on fire!

[@josippenezic7106]

When small farmer as me see this we cant even comprehend the size of feeds and equipment . The logistic in planting must be big ?

[@davidthurmond6526]

How many acres can u go over before refilling again

[@fetsluck5620]

It would suck if the corn prices dropped and he didn't even break even. Damn talk about suspense on that tractor and seeder. I wonder how much it cost to fill each tank with seed and how many tanks he uses to finish

[@smileyjack819]

I’ve been for a drive in that thing

[@jamesowen4938]

I like the Baldwin 600 and the seeder..

[@oilhammer04]

Nice video! How can you tell when the lines get plugged?

[@bradconway5611]

Blockage monitors. We use dicky John ones on ours.

[@JoseLuis-ob8bn]

DESDE ARGENTINA , EXTRAORDINARIA MAQUINARIA

[@peterquisthansen8228]

it is really an impressive machine I am going to Australia by 2020 is in possible to get out and see it in action ????

[@vtecpreludevtec]

Yes,go into the W.A. wheatbelt and ask around

[@aaronedwards3271]

Its near moree nsw not in WA

[@RB-cd8ne]

Not in WA its at Moree west of narrabri

[@anthonychamberlain2400]

How many acres do you guys do a season

[@bigredgreg1]

I can see the future and it includes seed hoppers that are lifted off and on the planter via a crane truck. No more dumping from a trailer into an auger to move the seed. The seed hoppers already exist. Simply need to marry them with the seed tender on the planter.

[@datbomb98]

That seems like a lot more work than using a auger or conveyor to load the hoppers on flex drills like these

[@SirHuddy]

Um no… that’s for very special seed types(lentils being one) dumping in with auger faster always will be

[@Brodrick32]

Holy mother of god, that is a monster

[@sparkomatic100]

Freaking Awesome!!!

[@black07rr]

Takes a lot of skill to maneuver that big bastard

[@Saltysteele]

that soil is so very fine, like a pile of dust!

[@LSC2001]

Details? Like how evenly does the product go down, how much product, seeding depth, how many acres per fill, turning it around in headlands, hydraulics to lift and lower (flow?), do you pull it in anything but dry sandy soil, how big are the carts? Etc etc. Cool to watch but the detailed info would be interesting.

[@jamesbarbour8400]

Sure would. The Balwin tractor must have sat nav fitted to control accurate bout width matching. Driver is way too far away to see the end of the machine. In addition to the volume of oil flow required to lift the unit, the volume of air for those two seeder hoppers must also be pretty substantial. As big as the tractor is, it's certainly got its work cut out. Would be interesting to find out how an empty hopper or blocked distribution head is flagged up to the driver.

[@lainecooper6488]

That tractor has a D12 engine in it running over 770 horses in her

[@brianpalenske695]

What make is it? Big Bud??

[@cilliangalvin8646]

@@brianpalenske695 Baldwin

[@JS-1983]

That Baldwin looks cool, can you back up with that airseeder? You should know pretty well where are you driving with these kind of equipment. You don't wanna say, whoops, i shouldn't drive to here... 😄

[@marvinstephanson5622]

How many rows does it plant at a time?

[@henrya2130]

How many ha do you run in total and how much is each paddock

[@psw3657]

Henry A 90k

[@agriculturaemrondonia2650]

Ai sim e máquina em top

[@williamriley2528]

Need a full section just to turn around...

[@MBarker397]

What's with the music? Would be nice if you talked about the machines being used.

[@FishGuy876]

Looks like the Big Bud from Farming Simulator 19 :)

[@PvtHaggard]

Fun fact, Big bud is actually a series of real tractors made since 1968 by the Northern Manufacturing Company in America. The one in the video is made by the company Baldwin Engineering. They made these tractors from 1979 to 1990. While very similar to the Big Buds there were not as powerful or big.

[@brocksinclair66]

@@PvtHaggard which is weird seeing as farms in america are a lot smaller

[@ChevyConQueso]

@@brocksinclair66 There are many large farms here, but most of the time big equipment is used A) Because we can (we don't have width restrictions here either) and B) Planting or tillage windows. Many, many prarie monster articulating tractors were born here and several brands started when some farmers built homemade machines, just like they did down under.

[@joshhiary7060]

Turning that must be fun

[@thomasstrand9853]

I wonder how many acres do they Farm got to be a bunch

[@Parents_of_Twins]

How large is the field? What's the HP on the Baldwin. They are cool looking tractors but you don't see them stateside very often.

[@PvtHaggard]

The tractor is a Baldwin 600, so unless they have modified it around 600hp.

[@trs8947]

Holly mother of god, thats crazy...👍🏻

[@nathankennedy4263]

We gonna need a bigger tractor!!!!

[@randlerichardson5826]

That has to be a million dollar set up if not it’s not far from it wow. I’d like to see that outfit in action in person or better yet drive it.

[@michaelc9128]

How do you fold that baby up to fit in the garage, even to transport it from farm to field

[@jackilling4921]

Must be a nightmare with 2 carts aye

[@xreconusmc3156]

Michael C it’s all hydraulic sir. No farms no food. Let me work let me live.

[@joescheller6680]

curious how does it breakdown for transport no way you can bend that around and corner at an intersection if you went side ways

[@kyledombrowski7051]

I believe they tow it from the side with a smaller drawbar

[@xreconusmc3156]

Kyle Dombrowski no sir. It folds up. All hydraulic. No farms no food. Let me work let me live.

[@richardmcleod3577]

What no nh3 nurse wagon ?

[@blessingmaambo]

How is it transported

[@diocleciodamiao378]

this seeder plants how many acres per hour?

[@moneyandtimefreedom3352]

That’s almost a football field, now to have a harvester that big.

[@joggy7799]

fajny film

[@CS-re5hw]

When can we expect this on farming simulator

[@user-cx4dt2jh9f]

it is dont comment unlese you check first www.modsls17.com/zells-214ft-sowing-rig-v1-3-1-0-for-fs17/?fbclid=IwAR2Qm0vYIWU8fofpi5LnReJbsa5fW3CEGBLSgPMBP5e3ftzWQ0-agz8YFGo

[@phalanx3803]

@@user-cx4dt2jh9f that's FS17 where up to FS19 now.

[@sammontgomery3330]

This is really cool but how do u move that between fields or does the planter setup just live in that feild

[@johnkurtz4652]

BaconIsaVegtable !!!!!!! I can’t imagine a way it could fold up

[@xreconusmc3156]

John Kurtz it’s folds up sir. No farms no food. Thanks for watching. Let me work let me live

[@Hick25]

X Recon usmc it doesn’t fold up, they tow it with a drawbar connected to the side

[@soybean70]

Must be so easy farming flat ground

[@jeremygrant1325]

not so much with years of drought

[@randallmidgley7589]

Except for trees, can't see them lasting.?

[@kadendonnay2663]

Can anybody tell me what engine this tractor was re-powered with? Is it a Cummins QST30 V12? I know the original 19 liter Cummins was removed.

[@timothylessing4774]

Cummins KTA 1150

[@kadendonnay2663]

@@timothylessing4774 So if they still had the KTA 1150 why do they have 2 air cleaners and 2 exhaust stacks? Plus KTA's don't put out enough to pull that rig properly unless they are turned up to 750 which drastically shortens their life in severe service applications. Are you positive it is a KTA yet?

[@randytrahan2407]

Haw did you get the thing

[@AgricultureGermanyy]

wow!

[@macucobr]

bom dia, ele está plantando trigo? ou alguma forrageira? é uma área de pastagem ou de cultura de grãos?

[@klo1679]

Wheat grain

[@kylesherman9760]

I wonder what the road ability of that is

[@randytrahan2407]

I must be a nightmare bro and I love the 747

[@thegreat_I_am]

It’s a Baldwin, not a Big Bud.

[@harrimanfox8961]

And only one Big Bud only made one 747. Of course, its not in Australia. This is a Baldwin Tractor.

[@marcusaurelius6012]

Team question? Pub Trivia - can someone tell me how much the entire seeder unit cost?? (total) l am not an expert on the terminology so appreciate any feedback. Cheers

[@burnby]

Anybody know what engine is in that thing ?

[@dirtymaxdiesel3663]

I’m scared to ask but now much was it

[@bjserv8951]

Looks like a big Bud

[@jetegtmeier71]

looks comparable to the big bud 747 ???

[@robertfoster7807]

how many acres a hour does it do

[@reynaldomatose]

O trem e grande . Uma dessa aqui em ireçe da pra plantar até amanhã

[@gannaedits3723]

its crazy big

[@felixolauzzon]

Welkers Farm might need that seeder. Just so they could finnish all fields.

[@kyleshores432]

Somewhat shocked that they didn't fab up bigger carts to go behind it....

[@kocen17]

Great video!Music?