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Central South Dakota | Like other have said get the speed calibrated to match your gps. Calibrate your tanks like the instructions say but go plant a few acres and then do it again after the product has settled. Map and Urea I can get ours to plant within 1-2lbs/acre of my desired rate. For some reason I can never get the wheat to plant at the rate the computer says. Once I get it calibrated if I back it off 8-10lbs an acre from what the moniter says it will be right on the money. We plant both spring wheat, winter wheat, oats, peas.......doesn't matter, its always about 8-10lbs heavy on our drill.
Also make sure your urea feeds through the top runs of your cart and the mesz and seed feed throught he bottom runs when planting because the urea will bridge up trying to run to the bottom set of runs running around the top tubes.
If your drill has an all run moniter never assume everything is planting if your running different products from different tanks into the same run. When I stop to fill I always turn the crank a couple times and then walk behind the drill and look because if the mesz is still running, but you catch a slug between the meter agitator and roller and block a run, it will tell you it is still planting.
If you have swath pro, take the time to do the measurements and input the different times so that your tanks will shut off or come on when needed. You'll be amazed at how much seed and fertilizer you'll save. Just make sure when your counting the seconds it takes to get to the drill your looking at the furthest seedboot on the furthest rank for your on/off time so you don't have skips. If a clutch starts not wanting to come back on when using this make sure the rubber hasn't rotted out of it letting dirt into work into it causing it not to engage.
If your pulling with a newer deere tractor with the high capacity hydraulics, I like to plug my fan into port #4, #5, or #6 and the wings and raise/lower into #1 & #2 that way when your lifting openers you don't see fan surge on the cart.
On the all run blockage system be prepared to spend about a $1000 a year replacing the master module to either tower # 5 or #6. IMHO deere has a problem, but won't admit it. We've replaced one of these modules every year since the drill has been new and it is stored inside.
If for some reason you have a tank that suddenly stops seeding make sure the nut that keeps the tank lid tight didn't come loose letting the lid lift and depressurizing the tank.
Make sure you own a good pair of leather gloves when you want to remove the little pin that is the saftey lock that locks the auger up other wise your hands will be raw by the end of the day from the wire slicing it up.
If you have to rehose your drill think long and hard about changing to the newer style manifold. A good investment IMHO.
We put got rid of the OEM auger hopper and put on one manufactured up there by airseederhopper.com Very happy with it.
Put the full weight kit on the drill, even in the middle. My boss and I thought we didn't need it, but were convinced to put it on and we are so much happier with our stands.
Your probably going to need a yellow, black, green and blue rollers probably multiples of both looking at what your going to be seeding.
If you want to feed the same product out of two different tanks and one ends up fuller than the other you just need to go into the moniter and do a % adjust on the variable rate and after one or two tankfuls I can have them emptying out pretty close together.
If your meters are used, I would pop them apart and check the condition of the brushes in the rollers and see if they need replaced because on the lower seeding rates if seed is leaking past, it can cause you to be off quite a bit.
The last thing to check is make sure the hoses are putting pressure on the correct rank. We've gotten drills before where the down pressure box for the seed ranks was actually applying pressure to the fertilizer ranks and the fert pressure gauge was applying pressure to the seed ranks. Was plumbed wrong at some point in the setup process.
Sure I missed something, but that's a start. Good luck. | |
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