Drilling Row Crops

Soybeans, common beans, corn, sugar beets and many other row crops can be planted with this machine. Set machine as follows:

NOTE: Furrow openers not in use do not have to be removed.

1. Openers not used for seeding can remain lowered to work the soil or be tied up to prevent unnecessary wear.

IMPORTANT: Fertilizer trapped around unused feed wheels will cause extreme wear.

2. Remove fertilizer feed wheels from inactive rows.

3. Cover all grain and fertilizer feed openings, not used for seeding, with stops.

4. Be sure fertilizer feed wheels are correctly assembled on shaft after changing to row crop planting. See REPLACING FERTILIZER FEED WHEELS in Service section.

5. Keep grain and fertilizer tubes as straight as possible and align pressure spring rods as vertical as possible.

6. Markers are recommended for row crop work. See Attachment section.

7. To use charts for row crop planting, multiply kg/hectare (lb/acre) to be planted by appropriate conversion factor in table below. Apply resulting value to seed charts to determine drive settings.

Feed Cup Spacing Row Crop Spacing
15 cm (6 in.) 31 cm (12 in.) 46 cm (18 in.) 61 cm (24 in.) 76 cm (30 in.) 91 cm (36 in.)
19 cm (7.5 in.) 38 cm (15 in.) 57 cm (22.5 in.) 76 cm (30 in.) 95 cm (37.5 in.) 114 cm (45 in.)
25 cm (10 in.) 51 cm (20 in.) 76 cm (30 in.) 102 cm (40 in.)    
 
Conversion Factor 2 3 4 5 6

 

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EXAMPLE: To plant 56 kg/ha (50 lb/acre) of soybeans on 76 cm (30 in.) rows with 15 cm (6 in.) feed cup spacing, multiply 50 (56) x conversion factor of 5 = 280 kg/ha (250 lb/acre).

Refer to 15 cm (6 in.) fluted feed rate chart to find closest setting for 280 kg/hectare (250 lb/acre). In this example, the correct index setting would be 33.

For a row spacing not shown in conversion chart, use the formula below to determine conversion factor.

ROW CROP SPACING ÷ FEED CUP SPACING = CONVERSION FACTOR

EXAMPLE: To plant 106 cm (42 in.) rows with a machine that has 15 cm (6 in.) spaced feed cups, divide 106 cm (42 in.) by 15 cm (6 in.) to obtain the conversion factor of 7.

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