Corn planter.

DeltaRed

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Found a IH 295 planter.I will put the units on my bar. Upgrade from the old JD #70Havent discussed price,it will be cheap/very reasonable.Maybe even some 'tradeing'.Thoughts?
 
Steve, our thoughts were given to you earlier when you discussed buying a 7000 or 7100 planter. You can do as you like but I would save my money and buy a better planter. I can't see where you would be upgrading very much with your prospective purchase. Mike
 
I am pretty much of the same opinion. The IH units is pretty much going sideways in terms of performance versus going forward. Deere 7000, 7100, 7200 (Maxemerge 2), 1750, White 5100 or 6100 are the ways to go. Your ground seems table top flat and lacks rocks so even an IH 800 or 900 would be an upgrade.
 

If you want to plant corn then get a modern corn planter. Screwing around with outdated planters with the value of corn seed and corn crop is just folly in my opinion.
 
Like the others said find a 7000 once you get it you will be very happy.I went from a 543 white years ago and never looked back.
 
I agree with those below. It is one thing to use old tractors, harvesting equipment etc.... as long as it gets you done in the weather window, so what? But planting, you need something good. You can't make up for a poor stand, uneven emergence etc. With the money put into seed and fertilizer, the planter is the last place to go "retro".
 
I have a bean bar with 15 of those 295 units on it. Works nice as a 15 inch bean planter, can spill the beans out as beans don't much care for thickness or depth a little bit difference.

I sure do like my JD 7000 planter for corn tho, seed placement is so much better, which is what corn wants.

Paul
 
I believe it was JD Seller in the last post concerning this that said it would be worth taking on a little debt for a reasonable planter upgrade and I second that opinion. If your yield went up 5 bushel per acre and you are going around 80 acres that would be 400 extra bushel which would be an additional 1200 dollars at 3 dollars per bushel. Your seed application rate should not change unless you were scimping to start with nor should the fertilizer unless again you were scimping. So that would be 1200 dollars right back at the planter investment. Keep a planter clean that was clean to start with means that planter should last you quite a while.
 
I do like the radial bean meter for the Max Emerge planters (7000 and newer). Set the rate and that is what you get. Set it for 150,000 seeds and that is what it drops. Your results vary by other reasons such as germination rate. With bean seed so expensive compared to 5 or 10 years ago you do not want to put down more than necessary but if a field will capitalize on a higher rate then you want to take advantage of that, too.
 
Steve I do not see where this would improve your corn stand much at all. The IH 295 unit is there version of the JD 71 unit. Nothing much different. I would not waste the time and effort to do this switch as it really does not gain you much.

You need depth control at the openers and good seed singlation. You can get that with several styles of planters that would beat what your using. JD 7000 or a White 5100 would be leaps and bounds better than either the JD 71 or IH 295.

Steve be patience. I have several deals cooking that may give me 4-6 JD 7000 planter row units. I thought of you if I get this done. More info later well before next spring.
 
Delta,

One last example. I had an elderly uncle, my grandfather's bachelor brother. He farmed with his unmarried brother and sister. The 3 of them would not spend a dime on anything deemed unimportant. Until 1990, when they put the farm in CRP they farmed with a fleet of MM U's, some F 12 Farmalls and a slightly newer loader. I think their newest implement was a JD number 5 mower, or the IH 45 baler. Last guys in the neighborhood to use a thresher, etc.

With one exception: They had a 7000 Deere 4 row. Bought it new. They knew the value of a good stand.

They got to be very wealthy people. Plowed every dime back into Wall St, and did very well... it got to be embarrassing. Example: my uncle wanted a "new" couch. Went to a sale, a local rest home was closing down. "Yeah, it was $35. But I hung around til the last hour, and I got it for $17.50." He probably had 100K in the checkbook on that afternoon, but he was not about to spend it all in one place.

The moral of all this is that even he (or maybe it was his sister) saw the need for a good planter. It was wisdom not lost on the younger generation. Some things are too important to skimp.


PS- When he died, we ended up with the Minnies. Now you know where my handle came from. Coonie is the old nickname (circa 1920) for my home town.
 
Sitting here thinking about it I think it might be an ok thing to buy it. Being you irrigate and you plant on a hill (so to speak) I don't know if a 7000 series planter would work very good or not. A lot of weight on those planting unit and it might mash your hill back down so I can see why you use the lighter 70 series JD units on a tool bar to plant with. The only thing I would do is check to see what kind of planter plates it takes, They might be IH plates or it could use the JD style of plates who knows. What I know about planting corn kind of goes out the window when you start talking about planting on a hill so it can be irrigated, So it would take someone who dose that to tell you if it's a good idea or not. I am a flat lander and have no idea how irrigated farming works. But I do know that the AC JD and IH planting units work pretty good but they are not as good as the newer planters but for irrigated farming they maybe just as good. Go for it. Bandit
 
The planter comes with BOXES of plates,parts,etc.Even has a monitor(but I doubt it works).Our fields are smooth,'flat' to gently sloped.I can buy it for $300 to 500.(still 'haggleing'). A pull type 7000 doesnt exist here. The 7100 (3 piont) rules here. all are 6 and 8 row.All the 7100s that I see here are junk(in my opinion) and all need some (major) tlc.My old #70 is in dire need of 'work' too.The 295 has better/different openers that I think would be an improvement over the 70.
 
Steve, even a worn out 7100 will do a better job than what you are considering. I don't understand the mentality of placing yourself two strikes down with an older technology planter. As has been said here time and time again, you are going to buy a newer planter, either directly or in yield lost to an old planter. Get a good planter and then wonder why you didn't do it sooner. As far as weight on the units that can be taken care of without any problem. Mike
 

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