Posted by Jeff Wenner on May 31, 2012 at 19:28:19 from (74.212.6.40):
Friend of mine has a 4 row 56 planter that he plants about 2 acres of corn with every year. He never seems to get a good stand. He always blames it on poor ground, bad seed, no good depth control, etc... Never paid much attention to it but I took a look at the planter tonight and it looks like a pretty decent design. Mostly gear and shaft driven, which in my mind eliminates a lot of places for things to go wrong. I took a look at his fields and it looks like it's going to be another bad year for him. A LOT of 3 to 4 foot skips in the rows. We dug around and couldn't find any seed so it is definitely skipping. There was even one spot where all 4 rows shut off for about 10 ft. That one I guess would have to be something sticking in the mechanism that puts things in gear when the planter is lowered. I recommended taking apart all the clutches and ratchets in the driveline and cleaning out all the old grease and checking them for wear. That might explain the whole planter shutting off, but how could the individual units be skipping erratically when they are all gear driven off the same shaft? He did use the correct plates for the seed. I've never had problems like this with my old Allis 600 or Ford 309. Any ideas what we should be looking at to get this thing planting like it should? Thanks
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