The typical 4 and 6 row 7000 is not easy to change the row spacing. The wheels get in the way, and they are a welded rock shaft, need to cut and reweld.
There are ‘conservation’ models where everything is bolted on and slides, but those are rare. As well the 3pt version, the 7100 is all bolt on, slides together.
Everything you need to repair, rebuild, or improve a 7000 you can get from Shoup Parts, cheaper and faster than you can from a mega Deere dealership. And Shoup has good quality.
Wear items, lift up those wheels on each side of the opening disks and see if they stay close to the disk, or if they flair outward. Easy fix, but it’s a wear item. Mice like to build a nest in the main tube and rust the hyd tube in there, the nest can plug up the marker mechanism needs to be cleaned out.
Otherwise, the typical stuff you are used to. Blades and bearings, slop and wear in the pivot points. You probably will find slop and wear in the pivot points, you can find oversized shims or otherwise ways to replace all that slop.
For soybeans, they came with a cup, which spills out beans depending how fast it turns. It works but not very accurate. Kinsey and JD and Shoup make seed meters, which do a much better job of metering out bean seed. You can find used for $60-90. A good investment.
For corn Precision Planting makes a slightly better finger pick up meter, if you buy a planter with old beat up corn meters you might want to just replace with the PP units instead of rebuilding the old ones. Either way. It’s probably a good idea to either replace or have the corn meters gone through and rebuilt, it is the heart and soul of the corn planter. Not too big a deal.
Some 7000 are plate planters, I hear more common in the south. It would appear you want a finger meter planter for corn, I sure would, so something to just make sure of, that you are getting what you want before driving a lot of miles. I’ve only ever seen one plate 7000 up here in the north, but they are out there.
Good machines, you will be happy, can plant with the best of the new machines.
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