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Western Ky. | All good ideas on Cyclo planters. The one I will add is a set of Rebounders for your planter. They are an absolute must for a cyclo planter! The flimsy little flap on the end of the seed boot is a poor idea when new and usless after 75 acres. I will agree that when using it you need to stay to the low side of the air pressure scale as the seed will get blown around in the trench. Nearly all of the spacing problems that one experiences with the cyclo system come not from any design flaw but what happens with the seed once it leaves the seed tube A CaseIH planter engineer once told me that the seed leaves the boot at 120 mph. Well, maybe that is a design flaw, albeit one a set of Rebounders will cure. Using Rebounders lets you up the air pressure to the high side for the seed being planted. With the stock rubber flap the seed goes everywhere. With the Rebounder on it goes straight to the bottom of the trench. The rebounder accomplishes this not by deflection of the seed but by it's firming action. Yes Rebounders do firm the seed, just a completely different mode of action than smearing/dragging the seed in the seed trench. Rebounders use the fractured soil from the collapsed side wall to firm the seed into the bottom of the trench. Using lose soil to firm the seed is a much better method than trying to smear the seed into the bottom of the trench IMO.
Edited by Gro-Mor Farms 12/20/2010 09:47
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Seed spacing?
