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swohio | Here is my take. Have used White 5100, and 6100 for last almost 30 years. Great planters. Wanted to go to 12 row and couldn't find a front fold 6100 I could afford. So looked into a Cyclo. Have a friend that had had one for a long time and had turned it into a 20" row planted and was again very happy with it. I found a 900 RHF that was only about 13' wide in transport, big plus for me. Rebuilt everything. Put the weather strips on the drums, took off insecticide boxes, chains and kept only enough shaft from transmission to hoppers. Run some starter fert. with electric pumps, so no drag there. Have been using med. round seed with some Pioneer PDR"s this year and as it will never be as good as the spacing with the White, it is very good. Have no doubles, and yes there is 2 plants that will be close. But for me, I walked a lot of my corn last year and even when 2 plants were somewhat close, ears were the same. I have looked at a lot of corn planted with different planters this year, you would be hard pressed to know mine was planted with a Cyclo. I love the two boxes, how it no-tills. If you like you can e-mail me. Can tell you more about what I did. | |
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C-IH 955 Planter Questions
