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Rivers, MB | Have bought a new to us JD drill w/ 430 bu 1910 cart. Few questions as we don't have it home yet with the manuals but am thinking ahead to spring.
1. Rollers - what rollers do we need to seed canola, wheat, oats, peas and sunflowers and some starter fertilizer. Rates would be as follows:
wheat - 120 lb/ac
oats - 3 bu/ac (135-150 lb/ac)
canola - 5 lb/ac
peas - 3 bu/ac (180 lb/ac)
sunflowers - 3-4 lb/ac (25 000 plants/ac)
starter fertiilzer - 40-100 lb/ac
ESN (w/ a few crops) - 100-200 lb/ac
2. calibration / monitor use (using the brown/orginal display) - it has the power calibration
Once you've calibrated a certain lot of seed or blend of fert, does it give you a calibration # that you can re-enter into the monitor the next time you use that product so that you don't have to re-calibrate every tank every time. We sometimes will switch from seeding wheat to canola to peas to oats to wheat and then back to canola.
How close is the calibration? Once its calibrated and then set to 120 lb/ac (for wheat as an example), will it actually meter out 120lb/ac or will it always be out one way or the other? Our Morris tank we have used for the last 16 years always applied about 5% heavier than what it was set for. Will we need to actually set the monitor on our JD for 110 or 130 (or some #) to get the actual desired rate?
3. Auger vs. conveyor. It's coming with an 8" auger but we have the chance to trade a neighbor for the conveyor. How much faster is the conveyor over an 8" auger?
Sorry if that was long winded. I won't be the guy running the drill but will need to get it set-up and working this first season. Thanks in advance. | |
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