Cole planter help

Kirk

Or, wrong plates.

Or, wrong gear setup. Probably coupled with a wrong plate.

Or, your seed is not graded very well to be very very uniform in size.

Planters really need a manual with them, there is a lot going on, so very many adjustments, and even corn spacing and more so even depth is critical to a good crop, even just for a food plot.

Paul

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Just looks like your hitch is heavy, and pushes down on the front of the planter, so the wheel would come up at times, esp in hard ground. Letting the wheel skid.

Paul

Don't know why it's skipping. Possibly something is tight and the wheel is dragging. Possibly chain is too loose. Neither of these is likely, but it never hurts to have adequate lubrication.

That is a late model planter where the plates sits up at an angle and drags the seed up to a slot and drops the seed. Are you sure you have the right size plate for the type of corn? They way that planter is designed I don't think seed size is all that important.

Back to dragging wheel possibility, maybe the wheel just isn't getting enough traction on the hard ground. That planter was designed for horse drawn use or use on a 2 row cultivator frame, and both of these uses would mean more weight on the wheel and so more traction.

KEH