flying belgian
Well-known Member
Maiden run with my new to me Kinze planter. Set to plant 30,000 which is 1 kernel every 7". Monitor says it is planting 1 every 3.7". Check sprockets again. Yep, got the right ones in the right place. Plant some more. Still to heavy. Scratch some rows out and find it is dropping 3 and sometimes 4 on every 7". What's going on? Plant some more, scratch some more. Can't figure it out. Finally take a box off, take finger unit off, Look at parts list in manual and see mine is missing the seed baffle in every box. The previous owner switched out the Kinze units for Precision units. When he traded planters he kept his Precision units and the seed baffles for his new planter. Gave me his new unused Kinze units but didn't tell me I needed to get seed baffles. I was unfamiliar with these planters so I never new they were missing. So moral of the story is I planted about 5 acres at well over 40,000. Think I should dig it up and replant? or just take what I get for yield?