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I added a squeeze pump to one of mine and made a fairly decent corn side dresser. The concept of the "planter" is great and I found that mine (6 row 30) counted seed very accurately (with a good seed brush) and many other details taken care of. Each day of planting I had to swab bug nests out of the pipes or they would plug instantly. I had to repair the seams on the seed tank so it would hold air pressure. One year I wore down a drive belt and the air pressure was 5% too low and it stopped planting. I never did make the monitor work. So I wasn't sure when it quit and planted the rest of that corn field a couple weeks later. I think that was the year one row of beans plugged up. I never did find out why, because when I jiggled that pipe to that row, beans started running out again. Because of the seed rattling in the pipe, it was good at planting corn in clumps which is not a good way to raise a good corn crop. Alternating clumps and gaps produces a lot less corn than evenly spaced plants. More than one year I'd have made it the center piece of a huge bon fire except there wasn't enough combustible in it. I paid $180 for my 6 row narrow mostly working at a consignment sale 15 years ago. Today I figure its value is as scrap but other than borrowing parts for making the drives of the side dresser, I haven't begun taking parts off. By next year it probaby will be scrap. Gerald J.
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