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NC Kansas | Too much fan speed, sloppy boots and crappy factory seed tabs contribute to seed blown or bounced out of the trench. Then the smooth closing wheels bounce over corn stalks and leave seed exposed too much. Improved seed lock wheels help too but we haven't spent that money yet... we run 3300 rpm on fan pushing 200lbs of wheat and fertilizer but can back off to 2400 rpm for 50lbs of beans. I've only mentioned about half the modifications you can do to these drills but if start there you'll see improvement.
Reduce fan speed is free
Seed tabs are like $4/row
Spiked closing wheels can be $70 to $100/ row
Fixing seed boot slop can be $30+ per row but the labor is what kills you
Seed lock wheels are probably $70/row
Then there are vents to let excess air out so seeds don't bounce out , narrow gauge wheels, exaptas new uniforce system and so on. | |
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