1780 planter on 4755

ihman73 · Feb 22, 2012

Got it home in the shed the other day. Anybody had any experience with one of these? 12/23, Seedstar monitor, mechanical drive transmission, Vac, Precision E-sets. Going to pull it with a 4755 MFWD. Is there a better place to port the return from the vac than running it through the scv? The book shows it hooked up to the scv, but I know on the CIH Magnums they have a motor return port seperate from the scv's, not sure if the 4755 has one or not.

dieseldoc · Feb 22, 2012

You could put a power beyond kit on it but its basically doing the same thing. Also why are you going to use such a big tractor to pull it?

Anonymous-0 · Feb 22, 2012

On my 8400 that was hooked up to a Case 1200 16/31, I had a special valve below the SCV with no restriction in it. My neighbor had a 16/32 behind a 8970 but the planter was setup for a 9000 tractor. They kept blowing motor seals until that was changed.

Tom OConnor · Feb 22, 2012

There is a resistance free return kit that you can get from John Deere that goes in the rear inspection plug for just that purpose.

Craig C · Feb 22, 2012

We pull our 12 row blackmachine with a 4440 with duals, inner wheel weights, and fluid. HP is not a problem, while it is turning 165+, but I have seen times where it will slip in loose soils, notilling on hills. Not spin out or anything, but biting in a little. We run notill coulters and floating row cleaners, and carry liquid fertilizer. Sometimes I look at the 4650 MFWD pretty hard about pulling the planter with it. So I would say that the 4755 is a good match especially with 23 units in the ground.

ihman73 · Feb 22, 2012

(quoted from post at 20:03:30 02/22/12) You could put a power beyond kit on it but its basically doing the same thing. Also why are you going to use such a big tractor to pull it?

It may not look it but that thing is really heavy and in our hills no way I'd put anything smaller than the 4755 on it. Turning around on a hill it would put a smaller tractor in the woods. We pulled it home with the 4440 and it snorted pulling up hills on the road. Pulled the 6342 White (Black machine 12/13 flex) the 1780 is replacing with both the 4440 and 1086 IH no-tilling was at the limit of what I would care to do with those tractors. Tractors last longer when you use them in the middle of their capability rather than overweighting and over fueling to try to wring everything they have out of them.

cumminspuller · Feb 23, 2012

I think you could put a power beyond kit on it like someone else mentioned. It will mount below the SCV's. I've worked on several large frame 50, 55, 60 series tractors with this set up on them.

larryanderson · Feb 24, 2012

Compaction caused by slippage is a yield robber.The
MFWD makes a world of difference and we leave ours
in automatic mode on an 8330 pulling a 24 row.It
is hard to beleive by the traction read out how
much slippage actually occurs.We have tracks now
but with the larger wheel tractors 8% was
common.The tracks usually are 2/4%.

1780 planter on 4755

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