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Walnut Grove MN USA | Kicking around the idea of making some kind of bulk fill for my kinze 3600 planter. In a perfect world I would like to use two bulk seed boxes that can feed one or both into a central seed distribution port. I am having a little trouble understanding how the air picks up the seed and blows it to the individual seed boxes on an as needed basis. Do the central fill planters with two tanks each feed one side of the planter or can one tank feed the whole planter? Anybody tried something like this? Yeah I know just trade up to a bulk fill planter I'm just to cheap to do that till I know what it would cost to make my own. |
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NC Nebraska | On a deere one tank feeds half the planter. Forced air doesn't really "pick up" seed, more or less pushes it along. There are tubes on the bottum of the tanks with an opening for seed to rest between. Forced from one side pushed seed out the other and to individual rows. I think if you went to deere's website and looked at CCS planters there's a pretty good explanation of how it works. |
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NW Iowa | I'm no engineer but I'd say the most difficult part would be the escape of the forced air at the row unit, and how that all plays into keeping the hoses from plugging, etc. I have a ccs and recently I had trouble with one tube plugging. Turns out it was due to a very small air leak on the hose right at the row unit that was letting air escape. Apparentely it doesn't take much because I fought it for several hours before I finally found what what happening. |
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South Central, Iowa | The Deere planter units are fed by the tanks with forced air. The seed isn't metered at the tank, it's metered at the unit by vacuum air. That's why there's two sets of blowers on them. |
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washington iowa | What I have seen done on a Kinze is to take dry fertilizer boxes and turn them around backwards and feed the row units. It works well and the guy is buying a newer 16 row and putting it on also. |
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Kingston, Iowa | Mine
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Kingston, Iowa | I made my Manifold for our old bean planter. The key is don't force the beans or corn let the air stream carry them. Mine terminated in a cut down box. When the box was full the beans would cut off the airflow and quit moving the beans.
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Near-north Ontario, French River | Mike go to the GP website or pick up a brochure. They have an illustration of how the bulk seed is transferred from the bulk tank to the row units. They advertise it has having no moving parts, but I guess they don't count the blower at the bulk tank, or the seed meters at the row units. It's a very simple idea, similar to what Kinze uses ( I've not looked to see how JD does it ) |
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NE SD | I have a tank for sale on AT+. It may not be quite as big as you want, but it would be easy to expand the sides out and get 50+ bushels.
http://agtalkplus.com/?q=node/16307 |
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homemade bulk fill for planter
