Posted by fixerupper on May 24, 2015 at 20:20:31 from (100.42.82.100):
In Reply to: lots of planter numbers posted by larry@stinescorner on May 24, 2015 at 17:22:50:
This afternoon my dad was talking about his first planter, a Deere 290. He had to get off the tractor to re-attach the wire at every end of the field and when he planted beans he had to refill the boxes every round if he could make it. Sometimes he carried a pail of beans along so he could get to the end in one round. Planting speed was no faster then 3 MPH or so many buttons per minute. The farm was 240 acres total but after taking out oats, hay and pasture acres he probably had 180 acres to plant to row crops. Lots of hours spent planting approximately 180 acres two rows at a time at 3 MPH and getting off and back on the tractor 70 or so times a day. He planted that way only a couple of years, then he got a big new 490 planter. I can barely remember him planting with a check wire and for some reason only one field comes to my meager memory.
In contrast, the way new planters are set up today, if the computerized monitor isn't getting signals from satellites above us, it won't give the planter the signal to go ahead and plant. We can plant a different population in every row if we choose and the tractor steers itself. And they are pretty darned reliable mechanically. But they are massive. Just a quick thought: If a new 36 row planter was melted down, how many two row horse planters would that steel make. What does a Deere 36 row weigh? 30,000 pounds? More? Less ? 20,000 pounds of steel? What does a 2 row horse planter weigh? 400 pounds? The horse planter would be all steel. Too tired to do the math. Just some rambling goofy thoughts. Four hours of sleep a day will do that to a guy. LOL Gnight folks.
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