Posted 4/7/2008 14:26 (#351866 - in reply to #351862) Subject: Re: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
south east SD
Started with a JD 4020 on a 7200 12 row. Went to a 4440 on a 12 1760 with fert. Now 8300 MFWD on 12 row 1760 with the fert. 8300 handles it with ease!! Don't have to worry about every little pothole but can still get stuck.
Posted 4/7/2008 14:30 (#351867 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
NE SD
MFWD- MX210 on a 1760 12 row with fertilizer. Had this planter on a 4430 and got along fine but it sure is nice to actually "control" the planter. Plant about 900ac of corn this way in conventional till and about 700 beans.
Posted 4/7/2008 15:39 (#351909 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
It made a Crop
No-till. - Yetter Row cleaners, NO coulter.
135 pto hp I have all the extra rear ballast removed and only put about 300lbs +/- on the front to help with steering. I run the engine at about 1700-1800 rpms. If I didn't put fertilzer or removed the row cleaners. I buy a 540 pump and Plant with the 65 hp tractor we have.
Posted 4/7/2008 16:10 (#351930 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
East central SD
7250mfd case IH around 210 HP Case IH 1200 16 row 30 in. planter set up with tanks on tractor for fertilizer Both conventional and notill Yetter shark tooth row cleaners.
Posted 4/7/2008 16:36 (#351943 - in reply to #351930) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Barton Co. Missouri
4440 duals 7200 JD 8 row, row cleans ,no-till and conv. no Fert. Just started using the 4440 when purchased the 8 row , before 6 row JD 7000, 180 Allis 75 HP .would of liked to of pulled the 8 row with
the 180 just to see how it would handle. 180 didn't have enough HYDS.
Posted 4/7/2008 22:16 (#352283 - in reply to #352268) Subject: RE: 6 row notill and 70 hp tractor
Virginia
Ed, Gay wants to know about the tool box on the planter. Does the planter breakdown often? LOL I just had to ask!!! I could probably find you a cheap green planter. Also, how many horses in that 70 hp tractor. Is it all Oliver?????
Posted 4/8/2008 10:11 (#352661 - in reply to #352268) Subject: Who says its time to upgrade?
Western Oregon
All from before the turn of the century!
Not any new than ED's oliver I think.
1967 MM Super pulls the six row white with no problem. Ya can't plant at 7 mph anyway!
Posted 4/7/2008 16:33 (#351941 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Lapel, In
12 row 30" Kinze 2600 no-till ,2 coulters per row,Yetter residue managers,liquid fert. Pull it with a 4430, 2wd, that I recently overhauled. Haven't dyno checked it. Should be around 135 horsepower as I have not turned the pump up.(Yet lol)
Posted 4/7/2008 17:09 (#351963 - in reply to #351862) Subject: Re: Poll: STO, but at least I have a pic......................
Owings, Maryland 38.6856 N 76.6752 W
60 and a couple horses coming from the rear, 2 wheel drive and a 4- 30" row planter, old and freshly refurbished in like new condition. All John Deere.
Posted 4/7/2008 17:21 (#351967 - in reply to #351963) Subject: Re: Poll: STO, but at least I have another pic......................
Owings, Maryland 38.6856 N 76.6752 W
Same tractor with a 10' 750 drill. Pulls well and I occasionally pull the same drill with my 4520. The 3020 D is so economical to operate, I try to do most of my farming with it.
Posted 4/7/2008 17:22 (#351968 - in reply to #351963) Subject: Re: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Near-north Ontario, French River
12/30 Kinze 2600 yanked around with Allis 8010 MFD ( 110hp) Equiped for no-till with 2 coulters per row, dawn trash wheels and both liquid and dry fert onboard the planter. Get along fine for the most part except sink holes. Dont run out of power to pull it, planter runs out of floatation and sinks to the frame LOL. Usually plant around 4.5pmh
Posted 4/7/2008 17:43 (#351974 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Thumb of Michigan
8760 Deere 4 WD pulling a Rawson 12 row coulter cart. White stack fold planter. 1000 ga fert capacity on tractor, 1000 ga fert on cart. Tanks plumbed together, use 28% + 10-34-00 + thio sul+ micro's. 3 coulters per row, fert split either side of row. No row cleaners (can't use them). 100 % No-till (zone till?), have been for many years.
Posted 4/7/2008 17:44 (#351975 - in reply to #351862) Subject: Re: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Owens Cross Roads, AL
JD 4455 2wd with a 8 row wide 7200 vac with no-till. No fert this year on the planter for corn and cotton. Soybeans are planted no-till with CIH 7140 mfd pulling a 30' cih 5500 soybean special.
Posted 4/7/2008 18:25 (#351991 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Rushville, IN
Plant corn with a shoup 60 ft. bar and 24 john deere 7000 units pulled with a caseih 9130. THe corn is conventional. We put on fertilzer and spray off of the planter also. Beans are done with a 750 drill and jd 4640 and a 12 row jd 7000 planter on 30 in. rows pulled by a jd 4630. 2/3 of the beans are no-till and the rest are conventional 30 in. rows.
Posted 4/7/2008 19:01 (#352009 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
East-Central Ontario
6 row White 8100 on a JD 7510, 115 hp, MFWD. Some no-till, mostly tilled a little. 5-600 acres/year, liquid starter and liquid N, all tires loaded on the 7510 and it'll snort a bit on the hills.
Posted 4/7/2008 19:12 (#352016 - in reply to #352009) Subject: Re: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
7110 2wd pulling a white 6100 12/30 vert fold which has been pulled with 1066(hyd a litttle slow power no prob) 2600 kinze 16/31 pulled with an mfwd 8930 turnin close to 200 cotton planted with 7120 2wd pullin a 5100 white 8/36 any backup provided by 8950 w duals all around turning who knows
Posted 4/7/2008 19:52 (#352044 - in reply to #352020) Subject: And the problem with that.....
Sumner GA, Located in southwest GA,
You got it easy. When we got out (temporarily going on 7 years) we were pulling a Monosem 4 row bed till on a Massey Ferguson 399. Now, we are planning to pull a two row twin row on a two row rip strip. Around here, the most common setups are 4 to 6 row rip strip planter combinations that take anywhere from 150 to 250+ horse to pull, and it still stalls the tractors on clay hills. If you want to see those tractors roll smoke though, set them on a chisel plow pulling the drill behind them.
Posted 4/7/2008 19:56 (#352045 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
USA
We are no till/minimum tillage. HP is 225. Tractor is John Deere 8320 front wheel assist. We are pulling a 12/23 Kinze 2600. No, we don't apply fertilizer with our planter, we have ours spread the fall before.
Posted 4/7/2008 20:25 (#352085 - in reply to #351862) Subject: Re: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Brazilton KS
Conventional corn, notil beans. Last year we had a 16-31 1790 Deere on the Challenger 35 at about 225 pto hp and a 900 CIH 16-30 on the 7700 Deere 2wd at about 155 pto hp. This year the 35 will be on a 1200 CIH 24-30 and the 16-30 900 will be on an MT635 mfwd which is supposed to be about 160 pto hp. Hope we get to use them someday. Over the years we have owned it, this planter has been pulled by a 4430 at 140 hp, the 7700 first at 125 hp and then at 155, a 7120 mfwd with a heck of a lot of hp, and then the 35. We planted with a 7200 8-30 on the 4430 before that, and a 7000 6-30 which we pulled on a bridge hitch behind a field cultivator with the 4430, or alone with a 4010 Deere at about 110 hp. The very first planter tractor was a 2010 Deere with 47 pto hp pulling a 694A 6-30.
Posted 4/7/2008 21:57 (#352251 - in reply to #352118) Subject: Re: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Brazilton KS
It's a 404 which takes it to 96 hp rated, wasn't that at 1900 rpm??? not sure if they were rated at PTO speed or at rated RPM and overspeed PTO...Bob or ron, do you remember? I had never thought this through until just now, but if they were rated at PTO speed, then 114 at 2200 is really not much hotter then oem....most of the increase is due to the increased RPM.... but at any rate it seems to be about all the fuel the engine will take without improving the breathing somehow.
Posted 4/8/2008 01:21 (#352471 - in reply to #352251) Subject: 2200
Pittsburg, Kansas
They were rated at the 2200 engine rpm. Best I can recall (memory sucks) they gained another horse or two at rated PTO speed at 1900. I think our 4020 (1968) was rated at about 94 at rated engine rpm and it made 95 or 96 at 1900 (slightly better hphpg at 1900 also). On naturally aspirated engines of that era an 8-10% backup torque (at aboujt 1500 rpm) in a Diesel was good and non-existent in a gasser. That is why the Diesels would always outwork the gas equivalent in horsepower. Gas fell on its face anything under rated rpm.
Posted 4/7/2008 21:10 (#352161 - in reply to #352090) Subject: Re: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
North Central Ohio
steiger 1000 wildcat@250hp or so pulling a kinze 3600 for corn
16 30 with row cleaners and notill ,run 20 gal ac 28% planter holds 900gal.
8970 NH @250hp pulling a kinze 3650 bulk fill for beans mostly no till 24 rows
@15" no fert on this one.plant wheat with a tw20@175HP with a 20' greatplains
@15"for interseeding 7.5"for seedwheat,oats and barly.
Posted 4/7/2008 20:45 (#352123 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Sheldon, ND
Conventional till with a 8520T and a DB 40 24row 20". We put down 10-34 with 600 gallon capacity on the tractor. We put the fert down with a huckstep knife.
Posted 4/7/2008 20:47 (#352129 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Modena, Wisconsin
No till with a 2WD JD 4520 running 135 HP. Planter is a Kinze 3400 12 row 20 inch with Dawn row cleaner and 2 curvetines per row. I put on 6 gallons per acre of 10-34-0 through a totally tubular system. Beans go in with a 15 foot 750 drill either with the 4520 or a 4840.
Posted 4/7/2008 20:58 (#352143 - in reply to #352129) Subject: Re: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
S.E. Nebr.
JD 8110 MFWD pulling a 1760 12 row with liquid fert and red ball system. Put on herbicide behind planter. Mostly conventional but will notill into bean stubble and some corn stalks this year. Use hydralic pump for herbicide and piston pump for fert.
Posted 4/7/2008 21:13 (#352168 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Palestine Illinois
This year It is going to be a JD 8650 with a 3600 Kinzie 16-32. Some no-till, some conventional corn, all no-till beans. This is quite a step back, as the last few years I have been planting with a 9220. But with most of the fields washed badly, we are going to be working more ground with a finishing tool rather than using a rotary harrow, and We are afraid that the finishing tool will pull the guts out of the 8650.
Posted 4/8/2008 06:41 (#352507 - in reply to #352174) Subject: RE: I'll let the picture answer
WCIN
The 7220 and the Kinze 12/23 that we used to have has always been my favorite tractor/planter combo. Currently running MX-275 with Kinze 16/32. Conventional on corn, and most beans no-till. Yes it is an overkill.
Posted 4/7/2008 21:46 (#352228 - in reply to #352185) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Sheldon, ND
Say Chad, how long have you guys been in 20" rows? We have been in 20's since '04. But it doesn't seem like we are pulling any better yields than 30's. We have been pondering switching back to 30's. Have you seen many guys switch back to 30's. Like the 20's because we plant all our soys with it too.
Posted 4/7/2008 22:52 (#352349 - in reply to #352228) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
NE SD
Started the 20" rows in 2003. Yields have been the same or very close. Not enough to warrant the extra weight and maitenance. Main reason for the switch was for beans. We've got a 30" planter on order for next year and will likely be going back to another air seeder. The 20" push hasn't been real big in our area. Only a couple guys around us. 25 miles to the west and there were a lot of guys that did and do it, but I know several have gone back to 30".
Posted 4/7/2008 21:23 (#352196 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Elkmont, AL
plant with CIH 7120 (150hp) 2wd, kinze 2200 8r 38" corn and cotton. No fert. and all no till use a single kinze coulter with no trash wheels and curvetine closing wheels. Beans are no tilled with 750 15ft john deere drill usually on 15" rows unless really late, and then back to 7.5" pulled by mfwd jd 7410 (105hp).
Posted 4/7/2008 21:48 (#352234 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
Virginia
4430 pulling 7000 6 row w/ yetter shark tooth row cleaners, frame mounted coulters, keeton seed firmers, Precision parts in corn meters, Martin spading wheels. I may dribble some 30% behind closing wheels this year.
Beans planted in 15" rows with a splitter--JD radial bean meters.
Everything is No Till
Sure doesn't feel like planting weather in Virginia. Wish I knew where the SUN went!!!!
Posted 4/7/2008 22:02 (#352260 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
South-central Nebraska
Mostly no-till, ridge-till where it is corn on corn.
Use a JD 8410 MFWD with 235 PTO HP
JD 1700 units on a Moore-built 16 row 30" stacker bar
Tractor has 600 gallons 10-34-0, have a third 300 gallon tank but quit using it on the front.
Posted 4/7/2008 22:14 (#352278 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
southeastern ohio
All no till this year, Case ih 800 6 row with liquid 2x2 10-34-00 @16 gallons, yetter combo row cleaner/coulters, notched closing disk.
Tractor will be 2940 John Deere, book say 82 hp, open station, suppose to be delivered tomorrow. Used 2950 with cab last year to plant and ran 3 pt sprayer (pain switching back and forth) This year the 2950 will be dedicated to the sprayer.
Posted 4/7/2008 22:16 (#352281 - in reply to #351862) Subject: Re: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using -- 2 Pics
10 row 30" corn planter conventional tillage pulled by 2-105 White (105 pto hp)
15 row 20" bean planter no-till pulled by 6144 White (145 pto hp)
The 2-105 has pulled the bean planter a few times, not really enough tractor, definitely stay away from any wet spot. This year we will pull the bean planter with a 2-155 (155 pto hp) White 2wd.
Posted 4/7/2008 22:39 (#352322 - in reply to #352303) Subject: Re: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
West Michigan
CORN conv till, 1770NT John Deere 16R30, 8320 MFWD, Liquid 2by2 28% 500 gallons on tractor 600 gallons on planter, pop up in furrow on some acres 150 gallon tank 3 gallons
BEANS no till, 1790 John Deere 16/32, MT765, No liquid
Posted 4/7/2008 23:23 (#352392 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
midwest
JD 8120 MFWD with triples, 24row 22" 1780 deere with row cleaners 3 bushel boxes and 600 gals. 10-34-0 on planter, with smart boxes for the insecticide on the refuge rows.
Posted 6/28/2016 16:53 (#5381296 - in reply to #352495) Subject: Re: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
THAT IS A PRETTY IMPRESSIVE RIG YOU ARE PULLING WITH THAT IH 656 IS SHE TURNED UP WHAT MODIFICATIONS IF ANY HAVE YOU DONE TO HER? AND YOUR PLANTER WOULD LIKE MORE INFO THAT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING THAT WOULD WORK FOR ME MAY JUST CHANGE TO LIQUID FERTILIZER. ARE YOU USING ANY ROW CLEANERS IN FRONT OF THE UNITS?
Posted 4/8/2008 23:00 (#353225 - in reply to #351862) Subject: Re: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
CIH Maxum 5250 (112 HP) and CIH ASM 1200 8 row planter with bulk fill and insecticide. I am surprised at the number of small planters listed on this poll. Around here most are 12, 16, or 24 row planters. Most new planters are 16 or 24 rows.
Posted 4/8/2008 23:38 (#353262 - in reply to #353225) Subject: Re: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
16 row JD 7000 with lots of updates and 500 gallon liquid tank, conventional to minimum till in corn, Sunco row cleaners. Use Genesis 180 hp for power. Have an old Allis 8 row with the electric fans for air, 3pt on a 7060 Allis that I use to fill in wet spots or small irregular fields. Years ago I used it for everything and actually had my best yields with it, but weather is much bigger factor than a planter that works. Talk about low maintenance compared to the John Deere and simple to operate. Will use a Hiniker air planter for no till soybeans this year.
Posted 4/9/2008 08:41 (#353445 - in reply to #351862) Subject: RE: Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
North Central Kansas
Int 966 (apx100 hp, 2 wheel drive)pulling case 900 8 row with liquid 30" spacing, squeeze pump 2x2 for the liquid for the beans, in row for the milo
White 2-155 ( apx 150 hp, 2 wheel drive) pulling a 3 point bedder unit. It is a merger of units ... an ortherman bedder, john deere planting units, and a int 400 seeding unit. A small 6 row unit, but we only irrigate about 150 acres so it is worth it. This saves us a pass latter during harvest time to put the furows in
Poll: What size tractor and planter are you using
