[chrisk1500]

Just out of curiosity- has anyone gone from flat fan secondary distribution manifolds (morris) to an upturn circular distribution manifold (Bourgault) and kept the same cart?

I am curious if it takes more air to move grain through the 'upturn' system vs the flat fan system.

 

[alfred123]

Flat fan will plug easier maybe takes less air but the flat fans dont have any spot to hit plus narrow gap so dust builds up and they plug with ****ty damp fert

 

[kirschenman]

In listening to the Ag Tech guys in Lethbridge, they take less air to move the product than the standard towers. The fans actually distribute product better too -especially on sidehills I guess. Just need to make sure the hose lengths are correct (middle ones are long ones).

In my years with a Morris, I never plugged a manifold once. Now that I have switched to the Flexicoil EZ Flows, I definitely can't say that anymore!

 

[alfred123]

In listening to the Ag Tech guys in Lethbridge, they take less air to move the product than the standard towers. The fans actually distribute product better too -especially on sidehills I guess. Just need to make sure the hose lengths are correct (middle ones are long ones).

In my years with a Morris, I never plugged a manifold once. Now that I have switched to the Flexicoil EZ Flows, I definitely can't say that anymore!

We assumed the Morris would work better so setup a drill with it. I am sure the design would use less air but not less chance of plugging. Now after having both systems the Morris is worse. Not to mention rusting out after just 4 seasons. We lost two days seeding last spring due to manifold problems the Morris headers just cant flow high rates of product in damp conditions. We never had any trouble in the past but damp humid days with a blend of 105-35-0-20 going through them was to much they plugged at any air speed. Now I should mention it was 9 run Morris on 14in spacing the new manifolds are Raycol Stainless ones the same as flexi coil but we are going to 7 runs per manifold to reduce the amount of product in our 2.5 in lines.

Normally the Morris units worked ok and I think the flat fan header will do less damage to the seed but they cant handle high rates of product and maybe the Stainless units will also give us some grief during that time guys with Bourgault and Seedhawk where also having trouble but on much larger drills. Our problem was over loading of the 2.5 in lines and the dust would cake up in the header narrowing the gap where the product fanned out to the runs and eventually plugging off.

The other thing I don't like and now I wont go anyway but stainless is the corrosion our Bourgualt was 9 years old when we sold it only then were the manifolds rusted out the Morris ones wouldn't last 6 years

 

[tx66man]

In listening to the Ag Tech guys in Lethbridge, they take less air to move the product than the standard towers. The fans actually distribute product better too -especially on sidehills I guess. Just need to make sure the hose lengths are correct (middle ones are long ones).

In my years with a Morris, I never plugged a manifold once. Now that I have switched to the Flexicoil EZ Flows, I definitely can't say that anymore!

Finally someone else to back me up on this, thought i was the only one who found that.

 

[kirschenman]

The reduction in runs will probably make a big difference. Our Morris only had 7 and 8 run manifolds. I am sure that more runs would cause trouble. I think they make up to an 11 run manifold which would be very hard to distribute evenly and would be a lot of product to split.