making a no till planter

Look what I found a picture of, accidentally found it while looking through auction pictures.

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I would look at row cleaners/trash whippers. You may have to fab your own mounting as I don't know if they make adaptors for that planter or not-I doubt it...but that shouldn't be hard-especially if you go with floating.

Dawn, Yetter, and Martin all make very nice row cleaners.

Here are some pictures of what I used.

If you want to see results go to: http://www.paul-julia.com/Farming2006.shtm

I am really happy and have good stands of corn and beans. But I ended up putting over $1,000 per row in the planter. The floating row cleaners were about $350 each. I spent a lot on new corn and bean meters which you wouldn't need.

Not sure how many acres you plan but like somebody said you can pick up those old 4-row 7000's really cheap.

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Unless you add weight and then the planter is not built strong enough to carry it.

There are used 4 row notil planters that don't sell to high because everyone wants wider planters these days.

Gary

If it has runners forget it.

Gary

The old 494 we had when I was a kid had runners or shed runner shaped shoe on the row unit that just slid along in the ground to open a seed trench.

I don't think disc style openers were used until late 60's or maybe even the 70's.

Runners would never work in notil no matter what you put in front of them.

Gary

Gerald J.

Coulters tend to hair pin corn stalks rather than cut them and to pack the dirt unless its already too dry for planting.

I'm sure that a shoe opener won't penetrate at all, and as light as the units on the 494 are, disc openers might not penetrate.

Gerald J.