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Glen in TX
05-09-2006 22:59:10
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Re: Questions about plows,disks and drills in reply to B. Abseck, 05-09-2006 11:19:08
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Hi Bruce, I was wondering if you ever found a 730 yet. Sounds like you got one spotted close now? I never ran across anymore down here lately. Sounds like the others got you covered on plows. I'm forgetting where you are again in Colorado but should be lots of 3 and 4 bottom plows in the San Luis valley area and Alamosa area. My uncle tried to buy all those smaller plows he could down here on auctions when they went to bigger plows here and hauled them to the Alamosa area. As for grain drills those JD model R, DR, DR-A, DR-B with flute feed cups or double run seed cups are hard to beat and will seed a variety of crops when set up properly. With most of them you can plant wheat, oats, barley, rye, milo, haygrazer sudan mix, and even soybeans or corn if set up right. Most of the older JD disk drills having single or double disk openers were set up in 7,8, or 10" spacings. The narrower the spacing the less trash or crop residue you can flow between them too. Here a 10" is kind of a all around spacing used for dryland and irrigated wheat. Many will use 6,7, or 8" spacing on irrigated circles of wheat. Now most plant their irrigated circles under sprinklers flat but when we still irrigated with gated ground lay pipe and listed our ground we needed drills with spacing to fit across the furrow spacings right too without leaving gaps. For dryland wheat here many use a 12" or 10" spacing but other areas also used 10 or even 14" spacing with the hoe drills or chisel type openers. We run 4" shovels at 12" spacing on a gang of JD LZ-812 drills hooked together for dryland wheat. If you find yourself a drill holler back as I've got several manuals and info on those and also a few JD plow manuals. Happy hunting.
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