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White 5100 marker setup preference

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StrongsOlivers

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Well I planted some corn over the weekend and noticed after I was done that space between planter passes was quite large, 45" to be exact. So I was running the nose of my 1855 oliver on the marker ridge with the markers in the shortest postion. But the book says to run the tire on the marker ridge with 60" tractor width and marker 78 1/2" from the marker arm pivot point to the disc, but a little further down the page it says to run the center of the planter on the ridge. So what Is your preference? Also it's a 4 row.
 
It is 'easy' to run a front wheel on the marker; but your rows will get more and more crooked.

Run the marker down the middle of the tractor, and if your tractor seat is centered on the tractor (some newer tractors are not) you can sight down the marker path and slowly straighten out wobbles and keep the rows straight.

Of cousre, if your arms don't go short enough, not much you can do unless you modify the arms.

Paul
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you run the center of the tractor/planter down the center of the mark provided the markers are adjusted right, I never could figure out how anyone could plant straight with a wd45 ac sitting off to the side and looking at an angle to the mark
 
if you ran the center of the tractor down the mark and you got a 45" guess row then it sounds like they are out too far, I don't know what your row spacing or number of rows is so draw it out on paper, it's not rocket science, basically if for example you had a 4-36 planter it would cover 144 inches so the marker would have to be 144 inches from the center of the planter
 
Was your planter converted from wide row to narrow row maybe?

Would need to do a little surgery on the markers to make them get short enough, I saw on Craig's list a fella made a conversion on a JD 7000 is such a situation. He made a bracket on the heavy part of the arm, and didnt use the sliding extension part at all any more. See if I find the pic I saved.

Paul
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I was surprised, to say the least, when I bought my old White 5100 years ago, and found that I was supposed to run one wheel in the mark. I went to work on the frame, and the markers, so that I could drive centered.
 
Do what Brutus suggests.....the advantage with a centered marker is you can pull the planter with any tractor regardless of the wheel spacing. Ben
 
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