Thinking of a used/old planter

**sumdumguy** · Feb 20, 2018, 14:17

Originally posted by hobbyfrmr View Post

I am kicking around the idea of a planter for row cropping.
I think I dont need a new elaborate one for starters, this would be more of a small scale R and D project .
I dont really know how they work. Seeds fall into a metering plate then releases the seed down the chute to the seed run?
Is there anything on the prairies or should I just go straight to the US?

Maybe you can get a grant like the BIG boys.

**dalek** · Feb 20, 2018, 14:42

Originally posted by hobbyfrmr View Post

I am kicking around the idea of a planter for row cropping.
I think I dont need a new elaborate one for starters, this would be more of a small scale R and D project .
I dont really know how they work. Seeds fall into a metering plate then releases the seed down the chute to the seed run?
Is there anything on the prairies or should I just go straight to the US?

Haukos Brothers in Minnesota come pretty well recommended and they deliver just about anywhere. Iâ€™d suggest a White 6100 series for a starter planter, you can get plates to plant just about anything accurately with them and theyâ€™re simple

**burnt** · Feb 20, 2018, 18:14

If you want to go to a plateless planter, the John Deere 7000 are about the best and most simple one out there.

The seed units are completely rebuildable and will plant any size of corn seed. The finger unit unbolt with about 3, maybe 4 bolts (I think) and the bean cups are easy to reinstall.

They've been around for almost 40 years? And keep on ticking...

Obviously not a high speed machine, but very accurate if maintained.

**woodland** · Feb 20, 2018, 18:31

Hobby what crops and spacing were you thinking of trying? Kinda thought of something similar but never got the idea any further.

**ajl** · Feb 20, 2018, 18:38

I have seeded canola with a JD 1770 which is pretty much the same as the older 7200. It is a vacuum planter so it used vacuum on the back of a seed disk with holes to suck up the canola seed. The disk turns and a brush knocks the seed off at the top of a seed tube and the seed falls into the furrow. Need custom disks and there is an outfit in Manitoba that makes them. (RRV) A planter can seed pretty much anything. The canola was somewhat picket fence when it came up.

**AlbertaFarmer5** · Feb 20, 2018, 19:08

I'm curious of what you are planning. Are you really planting row crops or trying to interrow cultivate other crops?

**Braveheart** · Feb 20, 2018, 20:05

Don't do it. Plants will be too evenly spaced. Neighbours will talk witchcraft rumors. Wide spaces allow soil pulverizing row cultivators to pass. Row crops = no profit. Corn just gets tall and you can't see indigenous raiders coming down the lane to get you. Don't go down this path. You will be sorry.

**dalek** · Feb 20, 2018, 20:26

Originally posted by Braveheart View Post

Don't do it. Plants will be too evenly spaced. Neighbours will talk witchcraft rumors. Wide spaces allow soil pulverizing row cultivators to pass. Row crops = no profit. Corn just gets tall and you can't see indigenous raiders coming down the lane to get you. Don't go down this path. You will be sorry.

Malachi and the rest of the children are the real risk

**Braveheart** · Feb 20, 2018, 20:44

Haha. Hollywoods new sequel: Children of the Beans.

Thinking of a used/old planter