did i plant too deep or was tractor too heavy

got a new to me planter this year. a white 5100. pulled with my white 2-135 and had planter set on 36" rows. worked great in corn but beans was another story. I split planted the soybeans and see that the rows I drove over for the spit are not coming up. here and there they are but for the most part they are not.
is the 2-135 to heavy? seems to have made no difference if I no-tilled or disked first. I planted around 2" expecting a dry year and it rains an inch anytime you sneeze.
I did not hoe the beans. wondered if I should have done that after planting also.
just thinking of what to do next year.
thanks
Gary
 
singles, and only a 4 row planter. only other option I have is to try and narrow up the planter but that"s a pain to change all the time for corn to soybeans. or I can try to find a bushier bean, but even the bushy or meadium bushy is not recommended from my seed dealer for 36" rows.
 
I had a 5100 4 row. It had been abused when I got it. I liked it so well that when I decided to upgrade/upsize a few years back, I wanted to buy a new one. There used to be three Oliver dealers in this long county. One near each end, and one in the middle. Now I would have to travel two hours either east, or west to reach a dealer. So I gave in and bought a JD 1750 vacuum 6x30. (What I really wanted to do was go to 20" rows, but there is nothing for the small farmer, and I am past the building/experimenting stage!)

I pulled the White with a JD 2520. I ran the blower with the tractor hyd. Now I pull the JD 6 row with the same tractor. I have duals(15.5x38) spaced on 30". And of course the planter has four wheels. I leave less of a track with this set up than I did before. The issue I have now is the tractor hyd. system gets hot. The old White had an oil cooler on it and I'm considering adding one somehow.

I spray my corn right after planting with a CaseIH 5230 MFWD and Hardi sprayer. The tractor has 16.9x38 radials. If I wander too close to a row, and it's damp, I see an emergence problem.

I don't know that it's the answer, but I think if you had a 40-45 HP tractor in the 4-4500# range, it would much better.
 
I was thinking the same thing. or a lighter tractor with cab since son does the planting and needs to keep out of the dust, or so he says, but it does affect his allergies.
 
Did you get on your hands and knees and check the seeds to see what happened? You might just find that the seed germinated and it's taking longer to come up than the other. BTDT
 
You tried to plant beans 2" deep? Combine that with the weight of the tractor and you have a problem in my mind.
 

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