Custom Two-Row Planter | John Deere 140 Planting Sweet Corn

Planting sweet corn with the custom two-row planter and 1971 John Deere 140 H3. Had difficulty growing sunflowers, so we put in more sweet corn…
June 2024.
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[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool planting team.

[@fleecydalefarm2840]

Thank you, appreciate the comment!

[@spencermichaelolsen]

Great video

[@fleecydalefarm2840]

Thanks!

[@fowlercorner]

Cool setup!

[@fleecydalefarm2840]

Thanks!

[@napooda846]

Need some spikes or cleats on the wheels, and then you know they have grip to ground

[@HamSlicer]

Don’t give yourself a hernia handling the seed bags. LOL.

[@fleecydalefarm2840]

Right!

[@npalen]

Nice setup! Did you custom make the metering units? I'm wondering if you need a bit more weight on the back of each unit to press the soil over the seed a litte more for better seed-to-soil contact?

[@fleecydalefarm2840]

Thanks! No, the metering units are part of the Hoss seeders that we used. We have extension springs adding down pressure to each unit, basically doing what weights would do. We may make a future modification to increase accuracy of the units though.

[@raymiller9391]

Nice, like that planter, did you build it?

[@fleecydalefarm2840]

Thank you. Yes, we built this using two Hoss seeders, then designed and built everything else from scratch.