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East Central Ia | We bought a straight 16r 30'' no bulk fill planter a couple years ago and have not had any trouble with it. It has worked flawlessly. The only thing we don't like is the way all the weight is carried in the center. We have some rolling ground and some places have some waterways that are shaped pretty deep. We just have to be careful, go real slow and try to hit them square so the planter doesn't bobble back and forth. Otherwise its fantastic. Plant spacing is great, popluation accuracy is almost perfect per row unit. When the low seed sensor goes off you can check every row and they all have the same ammount of seed in them. We run it off our MX255 without pto pump and love it that way. Plenty of hydro flow to run everything and its a complete breeze to hook up and unhook. We plant our beans with a 955 with pto pump and its a pain to get hooked up. We are looking at a kinze planter now however. We have always liked the kinze's but we were never interested in the finger pickup. We are in the process in moving from a 50/50 corn/bean rotation to a 2/3-1/3 corn/bean rotation and think we might look into a 24row 30'' kinze planter with vaccum meters. Who knows though... everything costs money!
PS in conventional till that planter will last a really long time imo. The way the CIH openers run offset and sharpen themselves works fantastic in no-till but the openers do wear out faster then the kinzes lots of guys around me run. Only piece of advice if you get it... make sure you get the openers shimmed with washers so that if you turn one disc it turns the other. Not tight but touching. The dealers tend to set them up with a hiar of space between the disc openers and after a couple acres they wear down enough and get pinched together while planting just enough to put a little bind on the bearings and they go out. We have been carefull to do this the last 2 seasons and have not had one bearing go out! | |
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CIH 1200 planter opinions
