Between Omaha and Des Moines, 7 miles South of I80 | SI_Farmer - 3/29/2016 11:19 This happened last year to us at the beginning of planting, left side started plowing in the ground, we rephased it, put stops back on, 2 hours later it was needing rephased again . Would there be anything wrong with leaving both stops off during planting if we can't figure it out in time? We only have about 180 acres total roughly to plant. If it is like our 7200 8 row planter, then if you leave out the cylinder stops, on master cylinder, then the whole planter's toolbar won't lower to the to the proper height of roughly 20-22". It will always stay up too high, with planter in the ground(even thou the master is completely retracted), and your down pressure springs won't put on proper tension, then corn may not get planted to correct depth. There ends up with too much oil trapped, between master and slave cylinders, during that rephrase procedure(that's why we have to bleed off some oil, with planter in the ground to get proper toolbar height, AFTER rephrasing; using those bleed screws on top of slave pistons) Edit: don't forget to get those "stops" back in place, after bleeding down slave cylinders, to get toolbar height correct, because it only takes ONE full lift, and you get too much oil trapped again, between master and slave cylinders and you will have to repeat the bleeding procedure to lower toolbar height
Edited by 4WD 3/29/2016 11:34
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John Deere 7200 planter troubles
