JD 7000 Planter

What should I be looking for on a JD 7000 planter? We just have a small hobby farm and we had good success last year on a trial run of growing sweet corn. Neighbor planted it with an IH 56 on 36" rows but singulation and spacing left something to be desired. Maybe just wrong plates? I think I could do better on saleable ears per acre with a better planter. The 7000 finger pick-ups seem to be the ticket. I'd also like to try my hand a growing edible beans and some flint corn for meal and popcorn to sell at farmers markets and roadside stand. At the very most I'd be planting 8-10 acres/year unless I can pick up some more ground for cheap to play with but it's not in the cards right now. I realize a 7000 is probably overkill but I don't think I'm going to lose money on it if/when I sell in the future.

7000 is a good solid planter, every part is able to be worked on.

Are you thinking 30" or 36" rows?

I plant sweet corn, popcorn, indian corn and sunflowers with my 7200. Previously use a 7000 and both work just fine. put in beans cups and plant green beans just fine also. I also use the planter to lay out the rows in my garden to get the strait and evenly spaced. I shut of seed drive but still fertilize. If the planter is dry fertilizer look it over good,it rust them real bad.

(quoted from post at 13:09:57 11/12/15) 7000 is a good solid planter, every part is able to be worked on.

Are you thinking 30" or 36" rows?

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I have a Farmall A with cultivators, I think they are designed for 38" spacing but I'd like to try to adjust for 36" and have matching 36", 4-row planter.

you can't go wrong with a 7000 on of the best planter built.It can rebuilt as good as new with parts from shoup's.

As long as its fairly complete not bent to ****** and the wheels turn a 7000 is real simple not much on it to go wrong, and easy to fix.

A 7000 planter also works good for beans, vine crops, and sunflowers.

Would be a great planter for you, and if a bit pricy like you say will get it back out when you sell it.

They came with a 30 inch and a 38 inch lift axle. You can probably move a couple inches either way on that, but not much more, or the wheels
get in the way and you'd have to cut and rewelded the lift axle to fit.

There is a rare and spendy version called the 7000 conservation that had clamp on lift wheels and you can adjust to all different spacings.

They did make a 7000 plate planter, so check that out that it is finger......

For beans and other such seed they came with bean cups, which spill out seed. Works. Since then JD and Kinze have made seed meters that
more precisely meter out these seeds, if you want to get real accurate or if you see in an ad it has bean meters.....

The 7100 is the same planter in a 3pt model. If you don't want dry fertilizer these might be a little easier for you to use on small scale, and again
everything clamps on so its easy to adjust any row width. Whole lot of people make 2 row deer plot planters set up like this, really didnt come
from the factory as a 2 row but works well on a small scale.

Paul

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<$2000. Can't seem to find an IH 56 or Deere 494/495 plate planter in good shape for less than $1000 around here, pretty sure a 7000 is at least 2x the planter of one of the older plate units.

Hook it up to a tractor and check the cylinder and marker operating properly.

That is a good point, my farmall H will not raise the marker arms.