24B planter

JDNPC

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Looking to plant peanuts again this season and not by hand as an acre is in order. I picked up two 24B units on a tool bar for my 3010D and wondered what plate # system works best with unshelled or shelled nuts that would drop right in the seed hopper? I see on JDparts they have a high speed plate system as well and wondered if this is a bolt-in seed can application with no other modifications. This is my first mechanized planting experience and I am a Yankee, so be gentle southern fellas. Thanks fer your replies.
 
One cannot plant peanuts with a conventional plate...it turns the seed into peanut butter. You will need the complete high speed peanut attachment shown on the JD Parts site.
 

Here's what Jethro was referring to.
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Thanks for the info. I saw those diagrams online at JDParts but they are obviously NLA when searched, so I am currently in the market for a set. Off to the classifieds I go.
 
Thanks, Jim. How about show him the next two
pages... they are the high speed versions with the
cone plate that is much gentler on the seed.
 
You may want to look at the 71 units.. they have a similar, improved version of the high speed bottoms and some are still in use. They should be a lot easier to find. Look in Ga or Tx. They have large acreages of peanuts and should still be some planters around. Either set, shine that cone as good as you can so the seed will slide easily. Large VA style seed could still jam but medium runner style planted flawlessly. Swap sprockets with a larger one in front and a smaller one on the drive wheel until you get 150-160 seed with 10 turns of the press wheel (simulates 500 inches of row length). That will give you a spacing of 3-4 inches. Depth should be about middle-knuckle of your (my) index finger. Don't let June grass live into July. Peanuts are very tolerant of grass herbicides (crabgrass... yuck). Hit that ragweed at less than 2" or you'll regret it at digging. Watch for leafspot... it will defoliate the crop so use a fungicide at the first sign of those tiny yellow spots and repeat within a few days after rain washes it off. Watch for thrips. Apply land plaster at pegging... makes for a healthier nut that fills the pod. How are you planning on digging?

Stay in touch... Jethro.
 
I have a Hoover 1 row digger with an inverter that I hope will save my back this season. I think it will do just fine enough as I by no means claim to know what I'm doing. Thanks for all that knowledge. I know tha's not printed in a manual anywhere LOL. I am considering selling off a couple older planters to offset two 71 units. maybe I'll keep the 24's fer sweet corn. I saw a few videos on how the old timers used to stack the peanuts on a pole. I've done some homework but for the life of me cannot find a diagram of the cross members at the bottom and how to construct one. I know they are relatively simple to construct but would like to know an older way of building them for posterity if you will.
 
Pea sticks are easy to make... a 2x2 preferably oak for strength, sharpened blunt on the bottom and tapered about a foot to a fine point at the top about 6 feet long. The cross member should be a 2 foot section of 1x2 nailed about 2 feet from the bottom of the stick. Set the stick with the cross member about 2-3 inches above ground keeps the vines from wicking water. Wrap the first vines around the bottom of the shock as a base and then shake the dirt out of the remaining vines and shock them on the stick with a pitchfork, nuts down, turning the fork upside down and smacking them down occasionally to form a solid shock. Leave about 2" or more of stick on top. You will end up with peanuts on the inside and vines on the outside where they will shed water. We dug in October and picked the shocked peanuts in November after all other crops were harvested. By then they were dry.

Wasn't aware of a Hoover digger, but I knew they made potato equipment. Our area used a "Goodrich" style digger. In any event, as long as you set the points so they cut the taproot without cutting off peanuts you should be good to go. The less taproot, the less dirt you have to shake out with the dreaded pitchfork.

Now... How're you going to pick them? Takes a long time to hand pick peanuts from an acre of shocks.
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I can't afford a lilliston picker-even an antique one as of yet, so if I can get a few youth baseball teams to help out, I may get a start. Still looking for a picker though.
 

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