Posted by Gerald J. on November 24, 2007 at 13:51:18 from (67.0.102.176):
In Reply to: IH cyclo planter posted by PJBROWN VT on November 24, 2007 at 11:50:42:
I own one. I'm taking parts off of it for my sidedresser made from another one.
I won't glorify it to claim its a planter. It counts seed pretty good if the seed are sized consistently and the drum brush is good and is set right. It fails to feed the drum sometimes when the tank leaks too much air. Its imperitive to swab out the pipes to get rid of the bug nests and cacoons, or it won't plant that row at all. On the older models you can't see the drum without a couple mirrors and then as the drive has worn the drum snaps one hole at a time and it takes some decorative paint to detect the drum turning. That pause and snap might be cured with pieces of weatherstrip. One year the pressure got 0.1" too low because of a worn fan drive belt and it didn't spill seeds at all. Another year, one row plugged for no detectable reason.
My biggest gripe is that with the long air pipes the seed tend to bunch up so it drops clumps and gaps, not the even spacing of the JD7000 that I plant with now.
The annoyances made me cuss a lot and if it had been more combustible, it would have been the centerpiece of a bon fire, several times.
Its a great concept, nice to have only one seed tank, but when it messes up (and I never was able to make the monitor work) it wastes way too much time and seed and causes a poor yield even when it works at its best.
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