JD 7000. Now that was REALLY scary!

Dave H (MI) · May 28, 2015

Had to pick up my stuff today. No problem trailering the flex head I bought...go figure. I didn't make it a half mile down the road with the JD 7000. Heard a funny noise so looked in the mirror...two seconds and it crashed to the ground and tried to plant the asphalt road. Seems there are two steel brackets with holes that a pin goes thru and these are the lockouts. One of these brackets broke. The pin thru the holes bent almost in half. There was no pressure in the cylinder so DOWN she came. No damage that I can see. Got the auctioneer on the phone, he called the seller on the field, seller was great...came down with a tractor. I had chain, pins, etc on the truck so we pumped her back up and off it went. Home now....

fixerupper · May 28, 2015

I'll betcha that got your ticker a thumpin! Glad you got home OK after all that. It's a helpless feeling when something like that happens on the road.

JMS/.MN · May 28, 2015

I can"t imagine how those transport locks could break. They"re each about 3/8 of an inch thick.....

Billy NY · May 28, 2015

They must be tough, farmer I used to help, right around the corner from here, lost a wheel on his 7000 while transporting, seemed it was not damaged though, I remember passing by right after it happened, right on blind corner in the road too.

andy r · May 28, 2015

My 7000 planter transport lock broke last week. It was just sitting at the farmstead waiting for the ground to dry out. The problem was I had put too light of a bolt in the holes to lock it up. The bolt started to bend allowing the weight of the planter to push apart the two tabs welded to the frame. When the tabs pushed outward the welds broke and that was the end of the transport lock.

paul · May 29, 2015

Never heard of that either, maybe the wrong pin as someone else mentioned.

Or stress over the decades from running it full and heavy down the roads made a stress crack form?

Paul

David G · May 29, 2015

Yup, I checked that last year and ours was half sheered off, sorry I did not remember.

donjr · May 29, 2015

Never heard of such a thing. That transport lock, if installed right, will hold anything up. It's a pretty stout piece of channel iron! You're supposed to raise the planter, install the locks, then lower the planter on them. The planters weight will hold them in place. The pins are only there to make sure the locks don't fall off before you lower the planter and for storage while you're planting. If you can bend the locks, you have the wrong ones......

Brian806 · May 29, 2015

Aernt you the one with the 800 air planter? Change colors hey

NY 986 · May 29, 2015

The "drawn" planters with the single cylinder have the double tabs on the main frame that catch the bracket for the cylinder mount. You are describing the conservation planters.

David G · May 29, 2015

The 7000 has a flat strap on each side of the cylinder mount.

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