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#61 ·
Why won't he be able to turn? from what i have seen this planter will be heavy on the tractor thus the need for heavy duty drawbar. when in transport position most of the additional weight for the extra rows will be on the tractor and row crop tires just dueled will probabally not be enough for the weight and road speeds thus the need for trips. As far as the ability to get this planter in and out of fields it should be about the same as the previous DB 90' planters
 
#64 ·
I stand corrected. I just got back from Louisville after hauling down some stuff, and while there I walked through what there is of the show so far. At the Deere exhibit, they do have their Bauer built 120' 48 row planter with its outside 4 rows folded over on each end. Not much room for anything else really. They did get a combine and 4x4 on the lot with the planter. From hitch to units, it's nearly as deep as the lot is wide. The gauge wheels are still hanging off the ends of the carpet, into the isles. I thought the seed tanks would be bigger for a planter that size. It'll take some big-big-big fields to make it efficient, providing that its seed tanks keep up. It really just looks like a marketing ploy to say "look what we came with first!" It'll probably take Kinze to bring something that big to the field
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#65 ·
The Bauer frame was designed to be pulled with only a tractor with duals, there's not enough clearance when it's unfolded. But I'm sure they'll figure something out.

-Dave

I think turning would be a much bigger issue when in transport than unfolded. there will be a need for much sharper turning going down the road than when in the field. 120' turn won't be very sharp, but a country road intersection could be really tight
 
#66 ·
I have a friend who is a vendor at Louisville, KY NFMS and he said this planter is on display as of last night when he was setting up his booth. He said they didn't have room to unfold it but its still VERY impressive.
 
#68 ·
[quote author=smooth board=pt thread=6722 post=93061 time=1234117727

I think turning would be a much bigger issue when in transport than unfolded. there will be a need for much sharper turning going down the road than when in the field. 120' turn won't be very sharp, but a country road intersection could be really tight[/quote]

That's what I was thinking, it seems as our equipment gets bigger our roads get worse
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I can think of several places around here that are very challenging to drag any piece of equipment.

Dave
 
#70 ·
You shouldn't need any bigger tanks for chemical or starter fertilizer- It appears that the CCS tanks are the standard 50 bu each plus a 25 bu refuge, same standard tanks that are on the 40' 16 row planter.
 
#73 ·
Im with smooth and Factoryfarmer on this

Why didnt Deere put a steering system on this machine. Surely there is some brains in the engineering dept- with a little bit of looking around such as at the Flexicoil 5500 air drill just the concept of transport has been intergated into such a lengthy piece of machinery I think they could have engineered something.

Case has and has done exceptional in maneuverabilty & stability.

http://www.mymachinery.com/Article.aspx?ID=149062
 
#76 ·
We've been using two 200 gal saddle tanks for chemical and a 200 gal front mount tank for starter on 8 and 10 row planters. I'd hate to have only those on a 48 row planter. We fill up often enough with planters that are 1/5-1/6 the size of this behemoth.
 
#77 ·
A 120' planter with 125 bu CCS capacity and a 40' or 60' planter with 125 bu. CCS capacity will plant the same amount of acres of corn between fills. 125bu X 80,000 seeds per bag divided by 32,000 population per acre equals 312.5 acres per fill whether it is a 120' planter or smaller. Granted 312.5 acres with any size planter is going to be a challenge for any type of fertilizer/chemical tanks. If you were putting on 5 gallons of starter per acre you would need 1563 gallons of capacity to fully utilize the CCS capacity. I have seen a 600 gallon tank on the planter and a 1000 gallons on the tractor. If you wanted to put chemical down also that would be pretty tough to do without refilling liquid between seed fills on ANY size CCS planter.
 
#78 ·
Well I was never concerned with how many bushels of seed the planter will hold, thanks for the rundown on that. All I said is I'd hate to only have a few hundred gallons of capacity for chemical and fertilizer on a machine that big. I don't care what you say you'd be refilling liquid every 30 min unless yo could figure out a way to carry a couple thousand gallons with you at a time. We usually try to set it up so we liquid runs out the same time seed runs out and refill both at the same time. Stopping to refill liquid 20 times a day on a planter that big isn't very productive or efficient.
 
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