Planters 4 row planter how much hp?
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Farmwithjunk
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LabLuvR said:
Pull type? Or 3-point lift? It'll take a minimum of HP to pull a 4-row planter. Weight is the biggest factor. If it's a 3-point model, you'll have your hands full without a few suitcase weights. especially so with loaded fertilizer boxes.
I used a 4-row #71 Deere planter w/ liquid fertilizer attachment, and the fert. tank mounted on the front end of my Massey Ferguson 150 for a number of years. It's SUPPOSED to be 38 hp, but was turned up to 47hp most of it's life. I'd plant in H/2 @ 1100RPM's, about half throttle. (540 pto speed rated @ 1750 rpm) The tractor hardly even noticed when the planter was in the ground.
If it's a pull type planter, you'll hardly even know it's back there.
What brand/model planter?
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art
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For many of the older non-notill planters you will be fine with a tow behind. The no-tills are much heavier frame and will require a larger size tractor.
Sorry guys, it would be a 3 pt. hitch JD 71 or something to that effect.
FarmWithJunk,
My sister in law lives in Mt. Washington. Just put out a bunch of flyers about a month ago about a lost dog. You happen to see those?
FarmWithJunk,
My sister in law lives in Mt. Washington. Just put out a bunch of flyers about a month ago about a lost dog. You happen to see those?
Farmwithjunk
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LabLuvR said:
#71's are fairly lightweight units. You should have zero problems with 4 on a toolbar. HP wise, you won't know they're back there. When I had my #71's in a 4-row configuration, it had liquid fertilizer knifes on each row. That in effect, more than doubled the effort it took to pull it. And that wasn't enough to even notice behind the 47hp 2wd 4800lb 150. 4 rows and a toolbar hitch probably won't weigh more than 500 to 550 lbs max.
Small world! I recently saw a few flyers about a missing Boxer, and a Jack Russel Terrier.
Did they make fertilizer boxes for the 71 as an add on, and I wonder if they still sell them with fert boxes?
My sister in-law lives in Mockingbird Estates if you are familiar with that. Nice country you live in up there. I like it a lot!
My sister in-law lives in Mockingbird Estates if you are familiar with that. Nice country you live in up there. I like it a lot!
Farmwithjunk
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LabLuvR said:
Once upon a time, Deere sold fertilizer attachments that would work with any of their unit planters, #71's included. They must not have sold many, because they're rather difficult to find nowdays. Yetter doesn't show them in their catalog. (Yetter built them for Deere and now owns manufacturing rights) I've seen a few #25B Deere unit planters with fert. boxes. Those will fit a #71. I'd like to find a set myself.
I know right where Mockingbird Estates is at. Not too far from me. Some of the most bueatiful parts of Kentucky is from here south and east into the Bloomfield/Bardstown region. I'm a little predjudiced, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. That's saying a lot tonight. It's 25 degrees and dropping, 7" of snow on the ground, calling for as much as 11" MORE by daybreak, and winds 25 to 30 MPH.
Farmwithjunk
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LabLuvR said:
The best way to learn is to ask questions.
I had liquid fert applicator on my 4-row #71 planter. I'm searching for a Cole "side-dresser" granular fertilizer set-up for my newest #71 units. Broadcasting does the job so-so. You end up with most of your fertilizer in between rows where the plant doesn't get a lot of good from it. In order to get the full benefit, you'd need to put down a BUNCH of fertilizer.
If it were in my power, I'd send you ALL of the snow along with this dang cold weather.
BayouMan
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Hey farmwithjunk,
What part of Kentucky are you from. I used to live in Smith Mills, which is about 10 miles southwest of Henderson.
What part of Kentucky are you from. I used to live in Smith Mills, which is about 10 miles southwest of Henderson.