central - east central Minnesota - | As the posters have made clear, they are worth it. A couple comments pertaining to bean counts . . . The belts are designed to handle seed sizes between 2000 - 4000 seeds/lb. They are pretty accurate, I find within 1000 seeds/acre of what the book says. What will throw them off in accuracy is seed size vaiances within the bag, from what the bag/tag gives as the average size in the bag. Example, bag tag indicates average seed size 2550 - well to come up with that size, in that bag, there may well be beans in the 2000 lb range and beans in the 3000 lb range - this will throw off its accuracy some. A season ago there were instances where the seed size stated on the bag were way out of range, there were many larger beans (1750 - 1900 sized beans) within that average seeds/lb range. This really hurt setting the population and tore up a belt or two. (more graphit was needed and wasn't really the solution). Of the 4 yrs I've used them on my JD750 drill, this was the only time I had issues, needless to say. They will pay for themselves with the higher priced seed. |
Belt meters for JD drill, are they worth looking at?
