For months now, I have been researching various no-till set-ups to convert my JD 7000 to no-till. I talked to a few reps from Precision Planting last winter at a corn planter clinic. The discussion of hair pinning trash was pretty lengthy. The use of no-till coulters was an hour long tutorial with high speed camera footage of planters at work in super slow motion. I'll condense what I have learned and what is being taught right now.
No-till coulters were a break through in their day, but have been found to be a poor option compared to heavy duty down pressure units using air or hydraulic pistons that run independently on each row coupled with heavy duty disk openers.
It's a huge expense for the system, so I will skip that discussion. From what I have learned, the best thing for hair-pinning is the yetter or martin floating row cleaners. The best system is the air or hydraulic operated ones, but again... big money. Instead, for a lower budget system, they make an aluminum gauge wheel for the row cleaners to be used in the float position.
That is the system I am going with. It is relatively cheap compared to the air or hydraulic options. I don't know how you have that many row units squeezed on the tool bar, but would be curious to see, if you had any pictures. I was very surprised at how well the system works. I got to see it in person in May. Virtually not a skip or double or misplaced seed in corn stubble with corn on corn and soybeans on corn and corn on soybeans.
The other biggie is the keeton seed firmer. It really makes a difference.
What I have now is a jd 7000 with keeton seed firmers, and rubber closing wheels. I will be switching to heavy duty openers($47.90 a row from shoup), heavy duty v-slicers, shlagel closing wheels, and the yetter short titan row cleaners with shark tooth, and aluminum floaters.
You could leave your no-till coulters on the frame and still have room for the row cleaners. But, I do highly recommend them after seeing for myself how incredible they work.
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