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Posted 11/4/2008 08:27 (#497435 - in reply to #497422)
Subject: Re: Remove Half the Opener Springs?


Hazelton, Kansas

Yellowgold:

I had a drill just like that...I think it was an '88 model.

To control depth and allow the disks to move over residue clumps, I removed one of the two springs on each opener, except for the openers that ran behind either a drill wheel or a tractor wheel.

This pretty much solved the problem, and I ran it that way for 15 years or so. Sold it to a neighbor, who still runs it that way.

I only did a limited amount of notill at the time (into bean stubble), and the single spring was a little marginal for that. However, the openers on that drill aren't really built for notill, anyway.

MDS

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