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Manitoba | Ron, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I see that you don't even give Ag Talk a rest over Christmas :). The 1910 cart with respect to accuracy has been a disappointment to me, we seemed to be consistently 10% higher in application rates than what we set it for--this year I finally changed the calibration numbers to coincide with the actual GPS reading of the auto steer, and that brought us a little closer to accurate. For all the crops you are seeding, you will need the yellow, black, blue and green rollers. We have two green rollers, as that seems to be the one we use the most. The secret here, especially in seeding large size seed is to use the smallest grooved roller at the highest speed for desired population so that you can even out the seed distrubution (at least as well as you can with this system). We do not have hydraulic drives on our cart for meter calibration, we crank it out by hand, but we have found that the only time that we will re-use previously established calibrations is if we are using exactly the same product, meaning the same type of wheat. Other wise we will calibrate for each seed change. Especially with canola, you cannot assume that if the setting for a L130 is 8 on the meter, that you can switch to L150 without re-calibrating.
Augar over conveyor--definitely the conveyor, especially for peas a/o soybeans--it is a must for least destruction of seed coat. We have used a short augar in front of the conveyor for treating in the field--but for most part all seed treatment is done in the yard.
AND watch the lids--IF they are not sealed a/o closed properly, which is easy to do, because you can swing them around backwards and they will lock down, but not be sealed--your time spent calibrating will be worth nothing!! Your seeding rate will be half to three quarters of intended.
Comment on seeding oats--constantly monitor seed flow--these tanks have a tendency to bridge with oats and you will have skips. Make sure the agitator is on high and what we do is shut off fertilizer flow every half hour or so to see if the blockage monitors indicate loss of oat seed flow. Then at seed fill, close the seed flow gates, pull the roller to check for bridging across the grooves. Make sure you open the seed gates AGAIN!!! (just lessons learned over the years)
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1910 JD air cart questions
