IH Soybean Plates

4020_guy · Jan 30, 2021

I am putting together an interplant planter for 15 inch row soybeans from a JD 7000 planter. I need at least one or three more row units. I have a parts 800 IH plate planter that I'm going to use for the extra units. It seems medium to large rounds plates would work or the soybean plates with squareish holes that would plant three to six beans at a time. Does anyone know what plate numbers these would be? Has anyone ever planted soybeans with an IH plate planter? The JD is going to be equipped with Shoup brush meters........Ron

fixerupper · Jan 30, 2021

I planted with an IH 58 plate planter for quite a few years. The bean plates I used were open finger, not closed cell. Closed cell plates were available though. I never did know what the advantage was with one over the other.

fixerupper · Jan 30, 2021

I went out to the barn to where my planter plate stash is and came up with two options. open finger and closed cell. i hope you can read the numbers on the plates. The plastic version is a different number but maybe there is a Lustran crossover chart. Lustran made the plastic plates.

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fixerupper · Jan 30, 2021

OK, the post with pictures went blank!!!! We will try again. Maybe one picture per post.

OK that's better. These are the numbers for the cast plates. lustran made plastic plates identical to these. I don't know if there is a number conversion chart anymore or not. I do have some open finger plates in plastic. If these will work for you I am very willing to give them to you.

Absent Minded Farmer · Jan 30, 2021

What's your take on the 58 planter? I passed up on a 6RN version of one this last summer & wonder if I should keep looking for another one or if I
should look for something better. Still kicking myself about it, as it went dirt cheap & it was in great shape. Also had the cultivator mounted to it.

Mike

fixerupper · Jan 30, 2021

My 58 was a 6 row. It did a decent job for a plate planter as long as the ground was worked up soft. The one I used had disk openers in front of the runners which helped planting in disked cornstalks. The hex drive shafts can wear round inside the bevel gears and start slipping once in awhile making skips. Planting depth had to be checked every few hours as soil conditions changed. The best thing I ever did for that planter was park it in the weeds and replace it with a 7000 Deere. There is no comparison when it comes to seed spacing and depth control.

paul · Jan 30, 2021

I ran a 15 row bean planter for a number of years, it was actually 17 rows, but 2 were skipped for wheel tracks. It was IHC 285 units in 15 inch centers.

It used plastic plates that looked a lot like the closed cell metal ones pictured below. But I think the hole was smaller. Seemed to me about 4 beans would fit in a cell?

I still have it, be we are in winter here, things are frozen back in the shed so not sure I’d be good at getting to it any time soon......

Paul

paul · Jan 30, 2021

My soybean plates were white, and would pretty likely be the white bean plates listed here?

Paul

Farmboy 81 · Jan 30, 2021

I've planted a bunch of soybeans with a Case Ih 900 plate planter. It did a good job. I have used the old steel open cell plates on the larger seed and the closed cell plastic on smaller seed. One suggestion is to take the hopper off and check for seed swelling in the plate cells if you go through a rain out/high humidity period. They seem to want to clog up cells in these conditions.I'll post the plastic plate # tommorow.

DeltaSteve · Jan 31, 2021

Lincoln Ag Products,Evergreen Colorado. is a plate mfger,and seller.Google em.Or find an older farmer in your neighborhood. He probably has some hanging in his barn that he would probably give you. I bought some 'open' soybean plates last year for my IH#185 planter. The year before I bought some JohnDeere plates from them for a JD #70 planter. I too made a narrow row bean planter. It has JD units on the front bar,IH units on the rear bar.

Farmboy 81 · Jan 31, 2021

The plastic closed cell plate number is 489110 R1. Need to be sure to turn the roller knock out pawl on it's shaft to fit the most centered as possible in cells with these plates.

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