Posted by Dave H (MI) on November 16, 2015 at 20:13:09 from (50.108.116.240):
Had to give up on this for 2015. I bought it in the Spring at an auction a few miles from home. So I dropped it here for the summer hoping to pull the finger pickups and ship them to JDSeller, but I never get the time. So today I hooked onto it and hauled it the remaining 20 miles to it's new home. Now, when I left the auction I only made it about a mile when one of the hydraulic lockout brackets broke and bent the pin 90 degrees letting the whole planter drop onto the asphalt. Took me about 100 feet to stop. Big bang and lots of sparks.
So today I makes it about 7-8 miles, had just turned off the asphalt onto gravel when I heard a suspiciously loud sound similar to a big bolt snapping in half. Pulled to the side of the road and....gee....the half inch thick pin holding the planter up had snapped right in half. Having once attempted no-till on an asphalt highway, I was not eager to try it again so a heavy chain had been twice wrapped around the cylinder bracket just below the ram and thence around the tool bar of the planter. And that was all that was holding her up. It was plenty. I drove the rest of the way mostly without incident. My wife tells me I harvested one mailbox somewhere along the route. Owner had already put it back up by the time I got back that way. I'm thinking if I ever need to plant a field that is NOT on the farm, I will take the Cyclo. It has end transport.
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