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Put new openers and scrapers on the planter, had some new marker arm disks to put on and found another rats nest built in the actuator for the arms on the 7000, had the same problem last year.
 
My cat keeps a good eye on the planter, he checks it out every
day. I am hoping no more nests in there. We cleaned them out
good last year and rebuilt the lift arm mechanisms.
 
Greasing the White 5100 and noticed the gauge wheels were running a little far from the opener disks. Went to get new bushings and shafts only to find out there is no bushings in the 5100. That is one of the changes they made when going to model 6100. So I ask how you adjust them in? They said you replace the shafts and bend the wheel in with a sledge hammer. Seems kinda primitive in this day and age. Or you can machine them out and put bushings from 6100 in there. I chose to replace shaft and bend them in as they really are not that loose. It is not as bad of job as I thought it would be. Two down and four to go.
 
Im thinking we either have a grimlin in the barn or the ice have figured out how to use wrenches. We were gettin everything ready for spring couple of the tractors and our disk had some issues which we didnt have when we parked them this fall. every body around here is hittin it hard plantin. With the lack of rain were already gettin not near as much ground worked as usual. Seein a lot more guys runnin turbo tills over there ground they normally disk. Weve got a little under 600 acres planted so far. The way were goin now I suspect will have all the corn planted 1st part of may. Mite be the earliest weve ever been done plantin ever.
 
Had the same problem with the 7000 I had. Then the mouse pss ate through the hydraulic line in the main tube and I had oil running out the tube.

Now I have a 7200 with a fancy monitor that tells percentage of drop spacing. #12 was consistently reading 94% when the rest were in the 98-100% range. Took me a long time to find the mouse nest in the vacuum tube out by #12. Rammed the nest out and that solved the problem. The inside of the vac tube smelled horrible. When I stored the planter last summer I removed all of the row vac tubes and I removed all of the caps on the main vac tube so everything was wide open. This spring there are no nests and no smell. Jim
 
It's OK. Bought it because my 7000 was a 6 row and I wanted to go 12. This 7200 happened to be available. There are a few things the 7200 has that are nicer, like easy removal of the insecticide boxes. A stock finger planter will still drop seeds a twich better than a stock 7200, if you don't go above 4.5-5 MPH. With a finger planter you don't have to worry about vacuum fans or vac pressure. I put the E sets from Precision in this 7200 last spring and I wouldn't go back to the Deere setup again. The seed spacing is so accurate I didn't believe what the monitor was telling me until the corn came up. It really was like a picket fence. I was going 5.5 MPH. Jim
 
Fixerupper, watch out when leaving the caps out of the big vacuum pipes on the planter. The mice might stay out but I have had many plugged with bird's nest when left open. Then the vac motor sucks it in and lock the fan up. I have seen that break the motor shaft right off.
 
JD, thanks for the heads-up. I try to keep the machine shed bird-free, but sometimes the little suckers sneak in. Jim
 
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