waaaay east central Colorado | I'll give you my perspective. The frame is heavier than the Deere, but keep an eye on the fold hinge. We've had to rebuild and beef up all four of them, but we go over the top of lots of terraces (not the best thing for them). Even though the frame is heavier, with 7.5" spacing, in our soils, it's still easy to push the frame into the air, we're considering the weight package. Every bearing on the row units will fail at 20K acres (that's gonna be a fun winter project). Our cart is a pull behind 3380, and while I like the setup, the tricycle wheels in the front have given us lots of problems and will get changed to a style similar to the Deere pull behind. Our discs are still in great shape after 20K acres, like an above poster said. The first set of scrapers lasted us two years of wheat and feed planting before they started to dish out right above the hard surfacing. We put on new scrapers this year and hard surfaced a little higher, thinking to get a little more life, lasted one year *doh*. We are DEFINITELY going to try some carbide scrapers next year. We also had to build some hose holder-uppers to keep the main delivery hoses up away from the press wheels, they tended to sag into the wheels and wear holes.
Those have been our problems with the drill, but I still like it and am not unhappy with the job it does.
*edit for spelling error
Edited by DidSomeoneSayDonuts 10/31/2010 18:52
|
CIH SDX drills
