[isumatt]

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.

 

[casefarmer]

Rows 5 and 89 are plugged.....

lol

how much fun would that be to diagnose...

haha

 

[smooth]

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

 

[5thgen]

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...

 

[yam]

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.

 

[adspipe]

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

 

[connor]

That's be alright for about half an hour until I came up to a pivot point. Then I think I'd be spending more time trying to jockey that thing around and splice rows in just to get around it. If I had one that big I think I'd also have a 12 row just for spots like that, pivot points/wells, headlands, pivot corners...Wait a second maybe I should just stick with a 12 row.

 

[deeresoldier]

How often would you have to fill it? It doesn't seem to have that big of a seed box...

 

[Jason Hildebrand]

I don't know how fast you travel with a planter but at 6mph that would be around 70-80ac/hour, you could probably get a qtr section done in two hours if you sped up a bit.

 

[8400and726]

I heard that John Deere is going to release it at Kentuky farm show.

 

[ebertfarms]

i'd think they'd be releasing i at the louisville farm show...after all, it is one of the biggest farm shows in the country.

My buddy said the king ranch ordered 3 or 4 of them.

 

[ebertfarms]

there 48R 20" or 22" planters, not 48R 30"s...so where you could squeeze a DB90 this would fit.

I still can't believe DB90's are too popular to make a large enough demand for it. Local'ish guy has 2 of them and gave up all the small fields because he could barely move with them. Other guy who has one also has two 16 rows and another 24 so he can atleast plant the fields the thing wont work well in.

Seems like everyone in the plains uses airdrills or some variation with the exception of what little corn is grown out there.

 

[cliffcutter]

Here's the link to Vaughn Bauer's co.:
http://www.bauerbuiltmfg.com/

I'd like to see a 1/64th scale version of this planter built.
Ya gots ta think big!

 

[isumatt]

Actually i believe 8400 is referring to the 48 row 30" planter. I do not know when they will officially release it but a neighbor claims to have one on the way and I have seen them at the local deere testing ground. Also saw the one sitting at bauers factory this summer.

 

[factoryfarmer]

Deere is only making 6 of them this year and they will go to the chosen few

I think my neighbor may be getting one but he said Deere won't let him pull it with an 8530 because of the weight.

-Dave

 

[8400and726]

I heard they were bargining with other vendors to try and squezze it in on an angle. I heard to that my neibor, same as Factory Farmers, was getting one of the planters.

 

[isumatt]

They could also put it in there with the wings folded up on it. Then it would only be 90 feet. I am guessing they would rather have it all unfolded though. Rumor around here is they are making 5 of them. I live about 20 miles from the plant.

 

[larry]

Last year when I was at the Louisville show I am pretty sure that no manufacturer has a single lot that has 120 feet in any one direction to show that size of equipment. There's not even any space there to show it folded up and attached to the back of the 4x4 required to pull it. And there is definitely not any room to give up (nor other exhibitor likely willing) any to let it be done either. That place is full.

Better wait for an outdoor show.

 

[casefarmer]

LOL JD won't have anything on there lot but one planter... and some signs on the floor....and it still wouldn't fit??

thats a big planter... i hope they don't put it outside...lil chilly out

 

[isumatt]

Looks to me like john deere has two lots right next to each other at the show. One is 100x55 and the other is 100x50. I'm not saying that it will be there, but it seems to me like they could pull it in there folded or probably find a way to unfold it as well, maybe cross the aisle. Muddy is 100 feet enough to unfold a 90 foot planter?