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Ontario Canada | I was thinking of adding Row cleaners to my JD 7000 planter ! what is the best kind and simplest to set? |
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Schlegel Farms, Hagerstown Indiana | I'm not going to say they are the best. I think where you live and soil type and other conditions can vary..............but I'm running my second planter set up with Martin and they have worked very well for me.
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SW Lower Michigan | I have the older Martin or Yetter style without the treader whells on my 7000. The depth is set with a set bolt and I like them very well in my sandy soils, very easy to set. |
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Driftless SW Wisconsin | Choice of row cleaners should be based primarily on the typical tillage and residue conditions you are planting into.
If you typically no till all your corn into bean stubble, then unit mounted floating row cleaners as pictured above may be your best choice.
ALL row cleaners need to be adjusted now and then, even the lower stop on floaters.
Floaters lose the stretch/cut action so important in longer, tougher residue.
For most 4/6/8 row 30" JD 7000 applications I find a simple face plate mounted, screw adjust fingered Trashwheels, set in the offset (non intersecting) position is the lowest cost, most flexible and overall best choice for most 7000 customers. Jim at Dawn
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PEEDEEinSC | Could we see a pic Jim I'm thinking of putting cleaners on my 7000 also |
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santee sc | Use floating martin with set bolts also, works real well. Had yetter with coulters and was not as good for my use. |
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southern MN | Thanks Jim.
I plant here in MN in the land of full tillage, plows, spring field cultivators, and heavy wet clay and peat.
Don't see much use for a row cleaner in that world maybe?
But, I got 40 acres of cornstalks the cattle run on, that gets light tillage in spring and planting corn into corn, fair amount of 'trash' left on the surface. Something like that be useful to me, and not be in the way on the tilled ground?
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Aberdeen MS | Row cleaners would "maybe" help in bean/COC planting.
Cleaner height set to just barely touching the surface to kick out root balls/small rocks/dirt clumps away from the gauge wheels to provide a more uniform planting depth.
Don't confuse the terms "trash wheels" vs "row cleaners". |
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Driftless SW Wisconsin | Hi Bruce! Paul, a set of simple, faceplate mounted, fixed but easily adjustable row cleaners in the offset position will likely improve your stand and have a very quick ROI even in highly worked corn stalks and worked bean ground, if for different reasons. In corn ground regardless of how it is worked there are almost always rootballes and cobs etc somewhere on or near the surface. In bean groiund it may be clods where the combine tire tracks were worked up..... Row cleaners, set back as close to the row unit gage wheels and opener as possible, set to just skim the surface ahead of the gage wheels will almost always give you more uniform seed depth and allow you to set the real depth you want rather than having to fudge deeper because you see an occasional seed on top of the ground. Providing a clear level path for the gage wheels to run on is important even in worked ground. There is a very real and significant financial return to having a more uniform seed depth, as Bruce is alluding to. Jim at Dawn |
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southern MN | Yup, always some rootballs or something. I will have double disk dry openers in front, so that might make a difference.
So, I'm finally joining the modern world, and going to 30 inch corn rows on my small farm. Got a 6 row 7000. It has these odd 'row cleaners' fingers on it I assume I will be pitching as soon as it warms up enough to turn a wrench. Never saw anything like that before.
I figure might as well get presision meters rather than run these old ones through a checkup.
My old planter had an unsupported Hiniker monitor on it, told me speed, population, acres covered, plants per inch, really was kinda neat, way ahead of others for whenever it was made? This planter has a Dicky John monitor appears to have some lights on it, while that will tell me if a row is acting up think I will be disappointed on the info I'm not getting. Might have to look for something closer to the Hiniker. Agtronix seems to have an M-3 that looks like the Hiniker was.
Work in progress, but at least moving forward. Into the 1980's anyhow!!! :) :) :)
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Eastern Ont | http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=278501&posts=7...
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Row cleaners for JD 7000 planter
