Missouri | Wile e coyote - 1/22/2017 11:36
Planting with a Kinze 3500 (8-16 splitter), using Insight/Trimble RTK guidance and wanting to VR seed populations. What componets do I need ? Thinking a AL planter module, AL hydraulic seed rate control module and some type of hydraulic drive system. Any other componets or wiring harnesses ? Will a JD hydraulic drive system play with a system I am describing ? Is there any way you can make swath control work coming in and out of the headlands without gaps created with the front and back planting units? Thanks for any and all responses.
Hydraulic drive will give you rate control, but not swath control. You will need clutches for that. Ag Leader does not do swath control with hydraulic drive due to the start up delay they often can have.
The only means Ag Leader has of clutching the front/rear rows on separately is with their new electric drive system. Any other clutching method has the front and rear rows going on/off simultaneously. You can get the clutch system to run both the front and rear rows into total coverage before shutting off by manipulating the look ahead settings, *if* you are willing to tolerate the extra overplanting caused by doing so.
What components you will need depend largely on what the planter is already equipped with. If it's a bare planter, it will need quite a bit. |
Kinze 3500, AL Insight and variable rate for beans
