IH 800 planter

DeltaRed

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Tell me about it.Are they good?Found a 4x30 in indianna.1750,good shape,lots of parts.....Thanks Steve
 
Bought one this spring. Love the job of planting it does as the units are the same as the new Case IH planters. I put new discs from Shoup on and new bushings in the covering disc brackets. Need to replace the seed cutoff wheels for next year. Electronics can be a pita but finally got the lift and markers to work like they are supposed to. Mine is a 8 row 30" with dry fert. Put on 200# 2" beside and 2" below. Cost $1000. Good planter if the pump to run the fan is good they will plant pretty accurate.
 
Planter in question seems to be a plate type.So it would not be a 800?Then what number? it appears to have 'maxemerge' type openers.
 
Steve find yourself a good JD 7000 planter and you will be good to go for years. They do a good job and parts can be found just about anywhere.

IF you want to stay with a mounted it would be a JD 7100.
 
Well that would eliminate the cyclo part. Simple planter with one of the best planting units. On newagtalk guys that have the 800 plate planter like them. Doesn't have to be new to be good.
 
Don't know about the 800 planters. I do know if you keep looking. You can get a bigger planter like an 8 or 12 row for about the same money as trying to find a 4 row. In another month planters will be cheaper. As it will be off season.
 
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Maybe a 56? They were a good plate planter in their day.

Locally the 400-800 planters sell for scrap price, not much demand for them. Might only bring 1/10 of your price here. The JD 7000 bring big money yet, popular. Lot less fuss with 7000.

Paul
 
They are a great planter easy and simple to operate. Went from a Deere 7000 to an 800. IH 800 twice the planter of the 7000. The concept seems somewhat confusing to some, but they are a great simple to operate planter.
 
6 row is as big as I need.I used to run 4.Went to 6 3 years ago.Want to go back to 4.4 works better in my furrow irrigated ground.With 4,every other row is packed,water flows better.6 row doesnt work 'right'(for me)The 'big' guys here all use 6 and 8 row,8 is becoming more popular.
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Looks like the openers are similar to the JD.I like the simplisity of the plate type.Those JDs seemto be 'hi maintainance'.Trouble is that planter is 15000 miles away.Transportation......But the price is/seems fair
 
Steve, the 7000 planters are not inherently "high maintenance". They will do an excellent job of planting with normal upkeep. The older plate planters will do a consistently average job of planting with little maintenance. The newer planters take a little more but do a much better job. You likely will raise enough more corn with the newer planter to more than offset any increase in maintenance costs. I went through the same mental exercise when I bought a 7000 several years ago. After I bought one I wondered why I didn't do it sooner. Mike
 
Sure enough.

http://titanoutletstore.com/machinery-pete-old-international-harvester-4-row-planter-sells-high/

I think I've only seen one plate JD 7000 planter in my life. I think the plate planters remained popular further south for a crop grown there?

Paul
 
Just looking at sales numbers since the 70s.....7000 hands down. I don"t buy the maintenance issue, and I"ve had 3 7000s since 1976. In a weak moment in "76 I considered the IH, just because it was cheap. Sure glad I didn"t give in to that one.
 
They were/are popular for a reason. At one time they had something like 75% of the planter market. Parts will be available for them long after all of us are gone. Mike
 
My first corn planter was/is a Cyclo 800 8 row 30". Big heavy planter by my standards and I spent a lot of time on it making sure it was ready for my first planting of corn. The electronics are not my favorite part of this unit. I could probably use a new harness and a little more experience to be honest because it wants to tell me it is not planting on 3, 5 and 6. But rest assured, it is a great planter and it planted all 8 rows with the populations I set it for! Not a complete novice but close and I put in a great stand of corn with it. I am very happy with the planter overall.
 
A cyclo planter is great as far as dumping all of the seed in one hopper. The early riser row unit is great also in the fact that one of the opener blades trails the first and makes a very nice seed trench. The covering discs and single wide press wheel do a good job firming soil around the seed and making great seed/soil contact. Now the bad. Seed spacing can be very poor at times due to having a long tube that the seed needs to be blown down in order to reach the seed trench. That being said the seed can and will bounce around inside of the tube causing eradicate seed placement. If you have any air leaks in the hopper or the seal between the drum and the seed tank wall maintaining air pressure will be a challenge. If you have to small of seed for the holes in the drum doubles and triples can be a problem. They do offer various seed drums and we had to get a popcorn drum in order to plant very small sweet corn seed. Large round seed works best in a cyclo planter. Take this for what it is worth by what you paid for it.

I work for a canning company and have been involved it the planting of 10,000 acres of sweetcorn a year for the last 8 years and have been around a lot of planters. So this is what i have seen.
 

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