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FREEDGUY 
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Posted: 12 May 2021 at 6:28pm |
I stopped in to a friend of mine that rents his 30 acres to a local BTO that is also a good neighbor of decades of my friend. The tenant pulled into the property this morning to start planting corn with a GREEN (color is NOT an issue with this post) 24/30 centerfill pulled by a GREEN tractor , the BTO normally ran a blue N/H on a White planter until they changed to the deere planter and ended up buying a deere tractor to pull it because of "communication" issues between green and blue  . The point of my topic is, the landlord went out to the field to ride a few rounds with the operator/owner of the BTO and was frazzled beyond belief according to my friend, there were constant alarms/flashing lights/chirps and occasional "horrendous" jerks of the steering  . The BTO said this has been the WORST planting season as far as electronic glitches that they've ever had in 15 years. My dad was "overwhelmed" with the CompuTrac 100 monitor on the JD 4/30 behind the 180  , he would probably be dead of a coranary if he had to put up with all of this new-fangled monitoring systems  . |
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 12 May 2021 at 9:08pm |
He must have left the door open too long and got dust in them lectronics. 
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 12 May 2021 at 9:28pm |
If i had just bought a new JD with a planter and it ran like chit... I would tell the Dealer to come and get it or FIX IT.... Dont pay the bills...and KEEP THE DOOR SHUT !!
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 12 May 2021 at 9:40pm |
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Kansas99
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Posted: 12 May 2021 at 9:59pm |
 FREEDGUY wrote:
I stopped in to a friend of mine that rents his 30 acres to a local BTO that is also a good neighbor of decades of my friend. The tenant pulled into the property this morning to start planting corn with a GREEN (color is NOT an issue with this post) 24/30 centerfill pulled by a GREEN tractor , the BTO normally ran a blue N/H on a White planter until they changed to the deere planter and ended up buying a deere tractor to pull it because of "communication" issues between green and blue . The point of my topic is, the landlord went out to the field to ride a few rounds with the operator/owner of the BTO and was frazzled beyond belief according to my friend, there were constant alarms/flashing lights/chirps and occasional "horrendous" jerks of the steering . The BTO said this has been the WORST planting season as far as electronic glitches that they've ever had in 15 years.My dad was "overwhelmed" with the CompuTrac 100 monitor on the JD 4/30 behind the 180 , he would probably be dead of a coranary if he had to put up with all of this new-fangled monitoring systems . |
"The BTO said this has been the WORST planting season as far as electronic glitches that they've ever had in 15 years."
Tell your friend that if those are the only problems he had with is JD tractor and planter to consider himself lucky because it might be the best planting season he'll ever have until they leave the farm.
Actually that's not a joke my older brother used to custom plant and had 2 Deere planters and one Deere tractor. Wow was that special!! All of his equipment is now Red and he gave up planting to fly a spray plane. I think those years with Deere equipment must have made him suicidal. |
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 13 May 2021 at 5:34am |
1) ok, I gotta ask...'whats BTO' mean, asid from Bachman,Turner, Overdrive....? 2) it always 'upsets' me that ANY 'electronics' designed for 'farm use' fails... 4+ decades ago I designed/built a 'computer' to toss 'prills' or 'pellets' of chemicals froma huge friggin hopper on a logskidder.did 1,000s of acres down east..fast,slow, up hill, down..it always put xx#/acre so I KNOW you can make 'computers' farm tough.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 13 May 2021 at 6:47am |
jaybmiller wrote:
1) ok, I gotta ask...'whats BTO' mean, asid from Bachman,Turner, Overdrive....? 2) it always 'upsets' me that ANY 'electronics' designed for 'farm use' fails... 4+ decades ago I designed/built a 'computer' to toss 'prills' or 'pellets' of chemicals froma huge friggin hopper on a logskidder.did 1,000s of acres down east..fast,slow, up hill, down..it always put xx#/acre so I KNOW you can make 'computers' farm tough.
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1) Big Time Operator.....a term of endearment thrown at people's farm operations that is perceived by others to be bigger than it should be over an arbitrary threshold.
2)Yes. I've made stuff that works too. I'm not sure of the actual rig in this situation, but I had a friend help me out planting a couple years ago with an awesome JD tractor and brand spanking new JD planter with all the steering, monitoring, etc. We got to one small field (I had to ride along, was like a kid in a candy store!), and he simply said, "This field is kind of small, we'll just do this manually." And shut all that stuff off and planted old school. Seems that's the way to go, have the tech there if you want it, but be able to shut it off and just go if you want. Kinda like that pipeline out east.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 13 May 2021 at 6:48am |
"Color is NOT an issue with this post", he says, after putting colors in all caps and rambling on about color for the first 75% of the post.
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 13 May 2021 at 6:35pm |
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 13 May 2021 at 9:01pm |
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I no nothing about todays modern marvels for planting. I have an early 90's 2200 Kinzie but the thing I see alot in the last 2 years is late model red and greene pulling Blue planters. What drives that? Price? Many of these Kinzies are not center fill so convenience is not it. Jus seems odd.
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allischalmerguy
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Posted: 13 May 2021 at 10:16pm |
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Steve around my area I see mostly Deere planters. But I do see some blue. I am 30 minutes from the Kinze plant. Some might depend on price? Some might depend on who the close dealer is that can get things to work like they are supposed to!
Edited by allischalmerguy - 13 May 2021 at 10:17pm
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 14 May 2021 at 6:07pm |
Around "here" , 70% of the planters are green, 15% Kinze and 15% CIH .
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