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| With only 24 openers in the ground you’ll have plenty power. It’s a heavy combination going at road speed though, things can get squirrelly.
Sounds like it’s priced low enough to have good value, even if you have to fix on it $3-4000. If it’s in budget and you’re only doing 24 rows, $10-12k and 60 hours or so should get you new high grade openers with bearings repacked or replaced, new extended wear boots and leaf springs, new gauge wheel tires shimmed up proper, new narrow profile firming wheels, and new closing wheels that’ll have better protected bearings. It would be good for at least 4-5000 acres then. Might go as long as 15000, depending on soil type and conditions, with occasional bearing failures. Boots fail because openers have too much wear, don’t skimp on openers. The first “extras” to spend money on it are the narrow profile firming wheels, IMO. | |
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John Deere 1850 air seeder
