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SE Iowa | Keep your 3600 for beans and get a 16 row 3605 maybe? I don’t think you’ll want 30” beans if you ditch the interplants on very hilly ground. Nice to have no planter change over and the options to do both at the same time.
We just went from a 3600 to a 3605 both 12/23. Went from mechanical to vac, box to bulk, and smooth closing wheels to spiked but still chain driven and spring downforce. Didn’t realize we would like the bulk so much but we do. Vac meters worked really well but finger meters were never bad for us either. Wouldn’t be afraid to go back to mechanical if I had to (no messing with vac settings and just go). Bulk adds more hydraulic to the deal too but very little. The weight transfer system works okay but boxes were certainly more equal. Boxes suck for beans though. Other than costs of interplants I don’t feel it would be more weight on the ground spread over more rows unless you mean tractor power is your limiting factor for weight. The simplicity of a low tech 3605 still does an amazing job. To me with so much less to monitor or go wrong I KNOW it’s doing a good job. Definitely capable of planting 300bpa corn if you have the ground and weather for it.
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Which 16 row planter
