Bruce from Can.
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- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
In another forum you mentioned that you have a 6 row Cyclo corn planter , but don't use the marker arms . How do you know how to space rows , GPS , or just take a good guess ?
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Brown Swiss
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From sitting on the seat of the tractor looking down at the previous row just line up a spot on the planter and follow that! In this case it is the pin for the marker arm, that comes to 30". My dad had a 56 IH that the arms were notorious for breaking so he quit using them, so when I started planting with it I learned that way. Then I bought a 333 Allis planter and it didn't have any markers on it which was not a problem. I bought this 800 back in 2012 and tried to use the arms, they worked fine, but I was so use to not using any that I gave up with them after a couple rounds and never used them since.
Oh with these contours here I only make 3 rounds and the field is planted anyway!
Funny my neighbor picked on his dad one day saying I had straighter rows then what his dad did and I don't even use the arms!
Oh with these contours here I only make 3 rounds and the field is planted anyway!
Funny my neighbor picked on his dad one day saying I had straighter rows then what his dad did and I don't even use the arms!
Goose
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This reminds me of an incident when I was a kid.
My father had a cousin who was an alcoholic and had a bottle stashed in every building on his farm. He had a son, "Bob" who was 5 years older than I. One spring when I was 13 and Bob was 18, Bob and I were planning corn with a lister that had been horse drawn and had had the tongue cut off to pull behind a tractor. Between Bob and me, one of us had to drive the tractor and the other ride the lister to raise and lower it.
One afternoon Bob and I got into one of his dad's bottles in a machine shed. Next morning, we were scared to go out to the field and see what kind of rows we'd made after getting into the bottle the day before. We finally went out to the field and found our rows were as straight as if we'd strung every one with a string!
My father had a cousin who was an alcoholic and had a bottle stashed in every building on his farm. He had a son, "Bob" who was 5 years older than I. One spring when I was 13 and Bob was 18, Bob and I were planning corn with a lister that had been horse drawn and had had the tongue cut off to pull behind a tractor. Between Bob and me, one of us had to drive the tractor and the other ride the lister to raise and lower it.
One afternoon Bob and I got into one of his dad's bottles in a machine shed. Next morning, we were scared to go out to the field and see what kind of rows we'd made after getting into the bottle the day before. We finally went out to the field and found our rows were as straight as if we'd strung every one with a string!
I do no till and use a set of markers that I made from three pieces of pipe. The main pipe is about 8-10' long and bolts onto the front weights. There are two more short pipes that are clamped in the larger pipe and extend several feet out. Each has a chain on the end, and it is simply lined up over the last row....
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