Dave I bet that you got that IH 800 CHEAP!!!!! Well it was cheap for a reason. They are not the planter a JD or Kinze is. Even with just 40 acres you are paying for a good planter with poor stands. It sounds like you have half your crop planted with poor populations. So lets assume 20 acres with a 20 bushel yield drag. That is 400 bushels lost and that $$1200 is lost. So do this for a few years and you lose the money that would buy you a GOOD PLANTER $$$. That is not even counting the lost time you had this year messing around trying to "fix" your bad stand.
This coming from a fellow that has planted just about FORTY corn crops. I just did population checks on growing seedlings and I have between 34-35 thousand final stands at this stage so far. I panted 36K. So the planter and seed is doing pretty good.
Now you went to the field with a faulty planter. I have never used a IH Cyclone planter on my farm and never will but I have worked on a few. Any thing less than 7-8 on air pressure means you have a problem and need to fix it BEFORE you plant. You either have poor air pressure at the fan or too many leaks down stream. The starting out with X pressure and finishing with a lower Y pressure would seem to mean a bad fan/hydraulic issue. You have told us what planter now we need to know what TRACTOR your trying to pull it with. If your tractor has the hydraulic capacity than dump the PTO pump.
Your call on what to do. I still would dump the IH 800 and call it a life lesson an move on.
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