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Ontario | Looking to rebuild my single disc fertilizer openers and here are my 3 options..
1. John Deere $43.11
2. Shoup $39.08
3. IR $31.00
Just Curious what quality the Shoup and IR discs are, we always replace Deere with Earth Metal blades once they are worn. |
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| I've had bad luck the last few years with Shoup opener blades and closing disks. (CIH planter). Those cheap Chinese bearings don't last very long. I went back to buying CIH and getting them when they have their spring sale. |
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Hopkinsville, KY | I've used the shout for a while. The Deere are said to be made heavier. For us, I'd change them regular enough that it wouldn't matter. |
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| Ingersoll Rand for sure, anybody who professionally rebuilds air seeders uses them. Needham has good information on pros and cons of using wider thicker blades. |
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Pilot Grove, Missouri | Pretty sure the opener blades I got from Shoup for my 750 drill were Ingersoll. Patrick |
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Northeast Misery | +1, stamped on the openers. |
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| Got new openers from Shoup last year, they were stamped Ingersoll and didn't make it through they year before the bearings started going out. Bad experience here, tried to save a few bucks, was going to call and complain but i was afraid they'd send me 48 more! |
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| That's what they would do. I complained about the closing disks and they sent me more. Some new ones are laying in the shop yet. Afraid to use them because they will lock up. |
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Ontario | This is just the disk on the fertilizer opener...no bearings attached. 16" diameter, 2.5" pilot, 3.5" bolt circle. |
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SC north dakota | With just blades I think you will be ok with Shoup but I also been having bad bearings in the seed disk for deere planters. I had a deere set that went 2 years and a shoup set that did not make it a year before the bearings were out. They did give me my money back on the ones that were bad but they only had 1500 acres on . |
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| Haakfarm - 2/9/2017 19:33 With just blades I think you will be ok with Shoup but I also been having bad bearings in the seed disk for deere planters. I had a deere set that went 2 years and a shoup set that did not make it a year before the bearings were out. They did give me my money back on the ones that were bad but they only had 1500 acres on . Are you no-till and running side-band fert openers? That seems to be a recipe for destroying brgs in the seed opener blades, due to uneven loading (soil has been loosened on one side, but not the other). Also, have a look at your seed-tube guards, since they provide the backstop against blade flex, which also stresses bearings. |
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John Deere vs Shoup vs Ingersoll Rand Openers
