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NW Minnesota | Closest dealer is CIH, What are your likes and dislikes on SDX drills? Neighbor has JD 1890 and I thought it left a lot of seed on top the ground, maybe has to do with setup I'm not sure. TIA |
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Flora IL | Its frame is heavyer than deeres and u won't need to add weights if ur neighbor does at times. The blades a lot bigger and I believe the closeing disc runs at a slighter angle which helps. (Or they say it's for the better). Were 100 percent no-till on clay soil and had a super wet year last year and we have the car in back and we couldn't tell where the tracks were.
Very happy with the drill. Just wish's it wasn't so tall |
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| CaseFarmer - 10/31/2010 00:41
Very happy with the drill. Just wish's it wasn't so tall
didnt think it was anymore.......... :-) |
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Mississippi Delta | I have one, and I couldn't tell you how many acres it has planted, but it has been over a pile of them. So far it seems as though its a good drill. Don't particularly care for the job it does planting soybeans, but never have been happy with any drill in our soils. For rice and wheat it does a fine job. Was pulling it with a 440QT and in smooth ground we could put rice in the ground at 10+ miles per hour. It's HEAVY in comparison to the deere drills and doesn't come out of the ground at speed. |
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Flora IL | Its all apart. We should have all the parts here soon. |
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| The SDX drills cause more hairpinning due to the larger blade (22-inch vs 18-inch). Also, seed placement is far from optimum, mostly because the SDX seed tube is so far rearward of the boot/scraper and blade, and therefore doesn't do much to direct the seeds into the furrow -- it's more of a splatter effect, with a significant % of seeds on top the ground. (However, the JD 50/60/90-series have a few issues with this also, especially if the seed boots are worn, or the seed bounce flaps broken or worn to nubs.) Additional problems caused by excessive sidewall blowout on the SDX. And, they seem to have trouble with their firming wheels/arms collecting mud, etc., and Case doesn't have the firming wheel as standard equipment any more!!! (they're an option -- I cannot fathom this approach).
Check the archives -- more discussion there. |
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Chippewa County, MN | Arnold's in Wlllmar has one that hasn't even had the rear rank of discs in the ground. The fellow that bought it only used it for 15" beans. Acres are pretty low. Looks like a stout rig. Most of the performance is due to the operator settings I'd guess. |
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Mayfield,KS | Purchased an SDX 40 this spring that had 23000 acres on it with original disks. Only 1/2 inch worn off diameter. My 84 year old grandfather says the stand of wheat I got behind it is the best he has ever seen. Several neighbors with CIH and DEERE. The blowout is far less behind CIH due to larger disks and straighter disk angle. They are both good drills. But I wouldn't trade mine for a Deere. |
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waaaay east central Colorado | I'll give you my perspective. The frame is heavier than the Deere, but keep an eye on the fold hinge. We've had to rebuild and beef up all four of them, but we go over the top of lots of terraces (not the best thing for them). Even though the frame is heavier, with 7.5" spacing, in our soils, it's still easy to push the frame into the air, we're considering the weight package. Every bearing on the row units will fail at 20K acres (that's gonna be a fun winter project). Our cart is a pull behind 3380, and while I like the setup, the tricycle wheels in the front have given us lots of problems and will get changed to a style similar to the Deere pull behind. Our discs are still in great shape after 20K acres, like an above poster said. The first set of scrapers lasted us two years of wheat and feed planting before they started to dish out right above the hard surfacing. We put on new scrapers this year and hard surfaced a little higher, thinking to get a little more life, lasted one year *doh*. We are DEFINITELY going to try some carbide scrapers next year. We also had to build some hose holder-uppers to keep the main delivery hoses up away from the press wheels, they tended to sag into the wheels and wear holes.
Those have been our problems with the drill, but I still like it and am not unhappy with the job it does.
*edit for spelling error
Edited by DidSomeoneSayDonuts 10/31/2010 18:52
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NW Washington | Atom Jet in Canada has some carbide boots/scrapers and a double shoot option for SDX drills. http://www.atomjet.com/products/systems-sdx |
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| just messin with ya |
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waaaay east central Colorado | Those were the ones I was thinking about trying, do you have any experience with them? |
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NW Washington | Sorry, no experience with them. I just stumbled across them one day when I was looking for something else. |
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| -- I see they went to a lot of trouble to perpetuate the myth of the "seed shelf" that CIH so loves to trumpet. Just one problem: it doesn't exist.
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NE SoDak | you must be a salesmen for deere or something. because none of what you say is true with our SDX 30 |
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| No, definitely *not* a salesman for Deere. I poke a lot of fun at Mother Deere for some of their poor engineering. I have no color preference, as long as the piece of equipment works. |
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