Nice. I'd seen several set up with normal boxes, for 22 inch rows, guys in MI and ND planting beets. First CCS one I've seen that big. 48-30 is a pretty big machine.

I want that shop...

 

I need help picking my jaw off the floor

 

With the hi price of fuel, this is the only way to 'fly' as far as my logic dictates if the fields are sized accordingly. Why play around with a 'toy' planter behind lots of ponies making oodles of passes across the fields when a lot less passes with a wide span rig would do the job.

 

I don't know a gravel intersection that could make. It would really get a lot done if you could get it to the field though.

 

I'm more of a Monosem man myself but that sure does look impressive. Looks quite expensive, with seed sensors and other monitors, CCS, somewhat of a liquid injection system & the Central Insecticide System. But like cessnaguy said, why bother with the little stuff if your fields are large and can justify this setup-increase in productivity.

These planters will save labour, fuel, time and overall money but would hate the days when you have to replace disc openers, changing seed plates, replace disc opener scrapers will take some time but that all in the name of farming.

 

Good gravy. That would certainly get a lot done in a hurry, but with four oil wells per quarter becoming the norm it would probably be more hassle than it's worth in our fields. Plus, I can imagine myself getting out of the tractor and walking half-way around the machine then thinking, "wait, which row failed?"

 

That already exists, but if I had that planter the first thing I'd do is number the back of each row unit so I can find the one that's giving trouble at a glance. It's bad enough on my planter when I spend a minute trying to figure out why Row 10 isn't planting, then realize I stumbled into Row 9 by mistake.

 

when did deere release a 48 row 30" panter? on their website a 36R30 is still the biggest.

or is that a 48x22/48x20?

 

It's not released yet.... Perhaps at the intro in Denver? I haven't heard anything about this planter and only just seen it myself today in an email.

 

that would be fun to plant milo with down on the king ranch in some of there big fields.

 

i'd assume deere/bauer are doing this because of case's 36x30" planter releasing whenever they do their release party thing?

I can't imagine 36x30" planters are that popular that deere decided a 48row is necessary...unless you crazy a** guys out west that farm sections as fields need em for some reason?

 

Wow! That's incredible.

And on that folding winglet bar there's room for at least 4 more rows per wing.

It'll be interesting to see the mechanical marker system they put on this planter... if they decide to offer it but it may be offered as auto-steer only.

I see a problem with ground clearance during transport though. That's a long span to be carrying that low to the ground.That hitch mechanism had better be capable of lifting the front of that planter high into the air to prevent "high centering" of the row units.Or maybe they can hydraulically "arch" the bars upward for ground clearance.Otherwise they'll go CRUNCH! when they scrape the ground.
Flexible enough? The 36-30"'s look like they are so this one should be too.
Practical? well... probably not.
Saleable? Yep. There's always that crowd who gotta have the biggest,baddest, raddest,bad a$$ed machinery around.All it takes is monnnneyyyy.

 

im not sure if i could get that into a single field we farm

we have a few off a main highway....that might even be a stretch.

 

Just an idea here and it might have some merit.
In the trailed configuration for the road, it would help if the rear wheels on the planter had some steering capabitity to follow around a ticht corner.

When planting, if a row decides to skip because of some problem, each feedtube could have a photo electric sensor that would display a warning and location of the problem in the tractor cab.

 

ebert, just because they have it does not mean they are selling them. When the 36 row planters came out there was only around 12 I believe until they saw that it could work, then they started making them.

And why do you call those guy guys "crazy ass" for farming sections? Are you trying to be funny?

-Dave

 

That already exists, but if I had that planter the first thing I'd do is number the back of each row unit so I can find the one that's giving trouble at a glance. It's bad enough on my planter when I spend a minute trying to figure out why Row 10 isn't planting, then realize I stumbled into Row 9 by mistake.

All of our planter that we have had or still have are numbered, like you said it makes it alot easier

Except we had to re-number the 24 row when we found out that the monitor told us 12 right and 12 left rather than 1-24

-Dave

 

it was kind of a joke but not really...seems crazy to me that they buy sections at a time since obviously the midwest is split up ALOT more than the great plains area's.

 

Well, a lot of the land is pretty much worthless in these parts and it takes a section to get anything out of it. Plus, our good irrigated land isn't selling for $3-4K/acre like back east.

There are some sections watered by half-milers where a planter that big could be efficient, but most of them have too many obstructions scattered throughout. A farmer would also have to have a smaller planter to handle dryland corners and whatnot.

 

i wish ground here was back to 3-4K lol....any good corn ground (190-200bpa) is selling for mid 7K or so now...

 

i just found this thread, that planter belongs to Vaughn Bauer. He used it to plant this spring, I don't know if it will be put into production. Neat planter though.

 

Rows 5 and 89 are plugged.....

lol

how much fun would that be to diagnose...

haha

 

needs hand held gps for operator so he can locate the row(s) plugged

 

The question is how many acres could he get "winged" in during a wet year before he buried that bad boy? Call in the Army Corps to get that one out...

 

48 rows is divisable by any common size row crop piece of equipment. Would make it nice for matching it up to any cultivator/side dressing rig and cornheads. To bad the headlands would take up half the average field.

 

Planter is Vaughn Bauers of Paton Iowa It does not come with Markers. I farm right next to him