My planter monitor and guidance system.

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@mikeschwandt6050 4 жыл бұрын

I noticed that your autosteer wanders a little bit. That's ok, I heard that there is more corn in a crooked row anyway. Lol

@nickb8618 Жыл бұрын

Most reliable computer system is the human brain. All you need is what you have.

@bseeds9318 4 жыл бұрын

old school tech if your off more then a inch blame the operator

@stanhensley3082 4 жыл бұрын

Getting the job done. Hope your crop does well. Hope a farmer’s best friend!!

@danw6014 4 жыл бұрын

This way the equipment manufacturers don't have you by the short hair when their computer software doesn't work.

@lukestrawwalker 4 жыл бұрын

Is that a 40" row spacing planter?? We have a 7100 Deere 4 row 40 inch planter we used to plant all our crops when we were row cropping. The 7100 is the 3 point hitch version of the 7000 BTW. It had peanut bottoms installed in bottom-plate hoppers when I bought it, but I got some parts from a salvage yard north of us about 100 miles or so and refitted it with finger-pickup type drives and hoppers, and installed Kinze brush meters in it. Those things plant just like a sewing machine in grain sorghum at 80,000 seed/acre, cotton at 52,000 seed/acre, and soybeans at 120,000 seed/acre. Just amazing how good a job they do compared to a plate planter... you want a 3.5 inch seed spacing in cotton, that's what you get, or 1.5 inches in sorghum, or 1 inch in soybeans, that's what it does! Ours doesn't have any monitor on it of course, nor the dry fertilizer attachments-- folks here do fertilizer in a separate pass ahead of planting, and usually spray the pre-emerge herbicide with the planter using either banding nozzles behind the row units, or like we did, install the broadcast boom back there behind the units with some brackets. I even have the same Lock-N-Load lids on mine-- my seed/fertilizer/chemical supplier got them for me free when I got the newer planter and started using Thimet insecticide on cotton at 5 lbs/acre as we planted. Worked real good. Ours didn't have a monitor on it, but for a four row it's not a big deal... all our previous old blackland type (sword opener) planters didn't have monitors either-- they hadn't been invented back then LOL:) We planted on raised 40 inch beds and so we got used to looking at the ground right as the openers come up out of the soil, and looking for a sprinkle of scattered seed (we don't stop to pick up the planter; on beds you just count rows and skip over a pass or two (multiple of how many rows your planter is) and we don't use row markers) We almost never had a tube plug up, if one did it was usually right when we started off due to a spider building a web up in there overnight or something, or accidentally rolling back a bit in soft/damp ground. I'd get off about every half hour or so and check the tubes, and get behind the planter and do a little digging on each row and see what the actual spacing and depth was and what kind of job it was doing... I know a LOT of guys just "depend on the monitor" but there is NO SUBSTITUTE for *ACTUALLY* getting off the tractor and digging a bit to see what kind of job the planter is ACTUALLY doing... Course it's handy to check the hoppers while you're back there and make sure the seed levels are where they're supposed to be, and while the planter is raised, give the drive wheel a spin and look for a spoonful of seed under each row unit LOL:) Works like a champ, no electronics needed! OL J R :)

@ericchristman1639 4 жыл бұрын

F@ck a monitor! If the chains was turing...i was planting....IH 56 planter...lol

@daveisluckycharms Жыл бұрын

That's what I thought until my seed tube plugged. Chain kept turning and seed kept spilling

@chuckjohnson8407 4 жыл бұрын

👍👍on the planter and guidance system

@mattwilkinson8502 3 жыл бұрын

You're up town compared to us. We don't even have a monitor

@Man-cv5ws 4 жыл бұрын

Do you guys have any chicken houses or hog farms in your area? I live in Wilkes county NC. Tyson and Wayne Farms have two big processing plants here. We fertilize our grass with chicken 💩. Even with the cost of a loader and spreaders we save a ton.

@lukestrawwalker 4 жыл бұрын

That's good! I priced chicken manure from the egg laying place west of here about 13 miles a number of years ago, hoping to save some money... I got the price/ton of manure with their spreader rental and he figured I'd need about four semi-loads for our hay fields... Got home and started doing the math on the analysis he gave me of the manure's actual nutrient content... Much to my surprise, I kept coming up with a price per ton of N, P, and K **HIGHER** than what I'd be paying for dry fertilizer in a spinner-spreader from the local ag supply... I called the guy back and told him, "I think I screwed up here, lemme run this past you" and read him off my numbers... He said, "Nope, you got it right, it's all good... Not surprising that the manure is higher than the dry fertilizer from the co-op... See, we have all these ORGANIC rice farms, and they're NOT ALLOWED to use ANYTHING **EXCEPT** manure of some kind for fertilizer, no chemical fertilizers allowed... SO they really don't have much choice except to buy chicken litter from us, and they'll pay a premium to get it, so yeah that's why it's higher..." I was like, "Okay, thanks!" and hung up... Didn't take rocket scientist to figure out that dealing with scooping, loading, and spreading a quarter million pounds of chicken sh!t was going to be a lot harder than just ordering ONE spreader buggy of about 8 tons or so of dry fertilizer from the ag supply, DELIVERED, in the cart ready to go-- just hitch up the tractor, hook up the hoses, and go spread it in a couple hours time... Plus the ag supply was cheaper to boot!!! LOL:) Just be glad you don't have a bunch of organic rice farmers in the area pushing the price through the roof LOL:) OL J R :)