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North Central Iowa | I have a John Deere 7000 4 row wide planter that I bought for my "hobby farm" a number of years ago. My question is, is it possible to adjust down to 30" spacings from 36"? Does anyone have experience in doing this? Thanks for your help! |
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southern MN | The wheels get in the way, so there is some torch & weld work involved, not 'simple easy' but it's been done.
--->Paul |
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LeRoy IL | You will need to do some cutting on the wheel frame unless it is a true conservation 7000. The wheels will hit the row with out narrowing them up. On the conservation the wheel frame bolts to the barand can be slide. |
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Northeast Indiana (Auburn) | If it's a rockshaft planter go to a planter salvage yard and get a axle from a six row 30" planter and cut off the outer two wheels and extra axle tube. This will be faster, easier and will save a lot of work getting everything lined up back in place. |
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North Central Iowa | It is a drawbar pulled planter. But the removing of the original wheel mounts and finding adjustable ones sounds intriguing. Might have to do some checking around the area. Thanks! |
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| Been there, done that. My welding shop and I took the route of cutting the wheel bars lose from the wheel frame tube and welding them to new plates on that tube. 
I towed the planter to the welding shop, then parked it with the frame supported on blocks and lowered the wheel frame and took off the wheels. Then it was easy to set it on a flat floor and weld the bars back in place and in line. Cost me about $300 at the welding shop and I did the work moving units and taking the wheel frame off and putting it back. Then you have to drill a new hole to hold the drive sprocket on that shaft. Move the inner row units over before changing the wheels and the outer after. They slide with the bolts loosened. Dropping in a 6 row wheel frame would be a viable option if there were any to buy. I checked into that before I did this change and at least Kalsem, the biggest salvage yard for planters in Iowa, had none. Seems they have all been broken on planters using fertilizer tanks on the planter and used up all the spares he's ever had. Its been a few years since I did that so there might be more or less available today. Gerald J. |
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WC Saskatchewan | If you use markers you will have to do something with them as they cannot adjust far enough in for 30" rows. |
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LeRoy IL | Markers are the same. Bar is shorter. |
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| The factory scheme for a 4 row narrow is that the marker marks the FAR tractor tire, not the middle. Works better for me than marking the tractor middle, I can put the tractor front wheel in that mark with very little error and my guess rows were mostly not noticeable except with a measuring stick.
Gerald J. |
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fredericksburg, va | I did mine the sme as Gerald's did it myself was not hard |
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North Central Iowa | Thanks for the pictures. That gives me a good idea where to go with this! |
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| I just did this one. It was a 4-row pull type on 38" centers. I narrowed the frame 23.5", converted it to a mounted unit, and pushed everything down to 30" centers. I went to a single wheel, mounted behind the transmission. It should be a nice sweetcorn planter! 
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SE MN | I was wondering bigfarmin how u went about narrowing the frame up with the cables and cylinder inside the tube |
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JD 7000 4 row planter, row spacing...
