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Western Iowa | I appreciate a lot of what you are saying. My casting for the center post did have some broken bolts, almost 1/2 were gone actually when we replaced it. I can't remember but I thought all but 2 or 3 were very recently broken. I feel I should have caught it sooner, but I was not greasing the planter this spring as I was having back issues. The guys greasing it did not catch it.
My planter has been on a 20 mph tractor until this year. Now a 26mph. I can see where that affects the planter. Good to slow down on a bumpy road.
A good number of pusher unit boxes do fail. Not just on my planter. There is a reason they have plasic boxes now.
Since we are talking about pusher units, I was assuming soybeans. If a planter can't take going 6-7 mph in a reasonably level field doing soybeans I don't want it. It should be able to take it.
Kinze made a neat machine when they came out with the 2600 16-31. Great way to have the best of both worlds and a narrow transport. Kinze got leapfrogged by Deere when they came out with the 1790 series.
I have put about 13K acres on my 2600. I understand it well. It is also getting to be a old planter and I expect it to have repairs. I do not however drink the coolaid that they are heavy built. Not bad, but not perfect by any means
I looked over real hard planters this summer, having a deere in the yard here next spring.
In my opinion only thing keeping kinze in the planter market is loyalty and the hydraulic wieght transfer for the toolbar wings. Without the wieght transfer they do not stand out at all. | |
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Kinze 2600 Seed Box Sizes.
