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southeast South Dakota | First post, but I read through AgTalk every day.
Yes, I have put kinze row units on a 385 frame. It was only on a 6rn frame. It has worked
well. Parts are much cheaper, more available, kernal spacing is alot better on corn, no more electric blower
motors and in my clay ground in a no-till situation I had trouble with sidewall blowout from the
opener disks because of the lack of the gauge wheels running against the opener discs. The only
change I had to make to the frame was where the wheel assemblies attach to the frame, I had to
notch out semi circles for the driveshaft to run that runs between the row units. With a torch
this was minor. As far as population is concerned the Deutz units run a double reduction, whereas
the kinze unit runs the seed meter the same speed as the common driveshaft. I plant my corn at
28k and have found adequate speeds on the original seed transmission to do what I want.
Would I do it again? yep, in a heart beat.
Mark
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Putting kinze units on a deutz allis 385
