Planter Upgrades

MN Scott · Jan 16, 2010

I just bought a new to me Deere 1750 planter. Low acres and set up with all the options for no till. Dealer salesman is recommending I add Precision Plantings Eset meter kits. He farms and has them on his planter and wouldn't plant without them. The Deere vacuum units can be hard to adjust for different seed size and you can get uneven spacing if you don't continually play with the vacuum setting I've been told. With the Esets you just set the vacuum to 15 and plant. Anyone else running them and if so are they worth buying and installing?

Andy In IL · Jan 16, 2010

I have a kinze finger meter and notice a differnts in kinze and precision. I won't plant with out precision again. If I farmed more acres I would buy the 20/20 monitor and air force.

Hope this will help to check out!
www.precisionplanting.com

kyplowboy · Jan 16, 2010

There are several guys on here who might know about e sets but most of us here (like myself) have just up graded to the new to us 7000 units. Try the talk group here and find the machenery group. They have been talked about good bit on there, you can read what those guys say.

Dave
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LA in WI · Jan 17, 2010

Scott,
The JD vacs can be a bear on hillsides, always having to fiddle with vac settings. The ESets are really the way to go....just poor in any seed size, set your vac at 15-18 and GO. The JD upgrade (to compete with ESets) is just using the 40-hole sweet corn disk and a "double eliminator" that is hard to set for different seed sizes. If you go to ESets, take off your vac gauge (goes up to 15) and replace with one that goes up to 20 or 25 so you know what you are doing. You need a tractor that can deliver the higher vac settings with either the ESets or the JD upgrade.
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