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Tennessee | A day or so ago, a fellow posted an ad for new White planters, 26% off list and no payment till Dec. 13. Has anyone priced an 8816? Midway in MN has a box planter listed for 82,000. I called around a couple of places kicking tires and was told around 109,000 for a pretty stripped down 8816.
What prices are you guys hearing, and if you have a 8816 how is it holding up, and what kind of job has it done for you?
Also, would our 2wd White 170 pull it fine? We're probably 70% rolling ground, and maybe 30% rolls pretty good. |
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Charles City. Iowa | Your White 170 will a 8816 no problem. The 8816 and 8824 are the best Model whites, that they built today. Real simply and they work.
New 8816, 2 bu , hydraulic drive kit, High rate sensors, Heavy duty springs, C-1000 monitor ISO, Radar Y harrness, Small corn ,Dice, Bean Dice, Standard Corn Dice, , Tri- folding markers, with Frt and setup List$110,581 26% off would be $81,829 the early selling price is less then that. Central Fill are $8,000 more. Lease is $16,613 a year. |
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Watonwan County MN | That planter at Midway is a 2012 holdover with ground drive. That's why it's cheaper. We've been having a few issues with the transmissions. All in all, a great planter. We have a customer pulling a 8816 with 3 bushel hoppers and a 750 gallon liquid tank with a 4240 Deere. Other than a little light on the front going down the road, it handles it fine. Any other questions, just ask. |
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Central KS | We bought an 8816 central fill this spring. Hydraulic drive, trash whippers, 3 sets of plates, heavy duty down pressure springs for mid to lower 80's. We are finding out that cheaper is not always better. Not so much with the planter, but more with the service after the sale we are NOT getting from the dealership. We could have gotten one at a dealer that is about 20 minutes away. Instead we chose to get it from a dealer about 50 miles away. The price was considerabely cheaper at the dealership farther away, but it has been the worst buying experience I've ever had.
As far as the planter goes, there have been quite a few issues that have occured. Some were unavoidable, others were things that could have been fixed by the dealer. |
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SE North Dakota | I don't mean to get off the subject but sounds like some knowledgeable people on the new white planters. I have a 2012 8524 that we installed the air bag system on for the down pressure. It seemed like the air bag system would give to easy when going up and down the field i felt but i don't know, first year with the planter. I also felt that I was getting such an inconsistant seed depth, some were down there and some were just laying in loose dirt. Seems like I could never make a very nice seed trench with out finding seed just all up and down in there. I was traveling about 4.5 to 5 mph, i didn't think this was too fast. My parallel arms were running from the main bar down hill a little bit back to the row unit. Is this the way those arms are supposed to be? My bar was level but the hitch appeared to run uphill a little bit towards the tractor. Maybe it was just the dry year we had but thought that my seed depth was all over the place. Wasn't sure if the air bags could have been moving more compared to springs. I was running 60lbs of air in them which was about 200lbs of down pressure which seems like alot. |
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Watonwan County MN | First thing is the parallel arms have to be parallel with the ground. That would help alot. We've only sold a couple with air bags and each of those worked fine, but that was more of a conventional till situation. Another thing to remember is the "gauge" for depth is just a sticker put on by some 9-5er who really doesn't care. So if your depth isn't exacty where you want it its probably cuz its not. Best thing to do is turn your cranks all the way in, set a 2x4 under the gauge wheel tires, and turn the screw out till the wlheels touch the ground. Then you know where 1 1/2" is at least. From there, each revolution of the crank is 1/4". Hope this helps! |
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