Can WD aux Hydraulics handle JD 495a planter?

   As long as nothing is wrong with your WD, it will lift it and pull it.

And the standard JD cylinder in the 495 days was not rated for 2250, more like 1250 psi so the small volume high pressure WD might break it.

I've planted 6 row corn and beans with a cyclo alleged planter with a MF-135. The tractor needed more weight to handle that planter, running the blower took considerable PTO HP too. More recently I planted with a JD 4 row 7000 planter and the 135 handled it with ease. I throttled back to 1500 RPM (max working speed 2250 rpm) and shifted gears up to get the desired 4.7 or 5 mph. The last time I also carried a three point sprayer and put down 32% along side the rows notill, still I kept the throttle way back at 1500 or 1600 rpm. Just a fast idle. Didn't work the tractor hard at all. I think the 495 will pull easier and that its a lighter weight planter than the 7000.

Gerald J.

Back in the day, 1960-1975 or so we used that combination on the farm. You do need the high pressure/low volume cylinder for the planter to lift at the desired speed.

Somewhere I read about using the left lift cylinder for auxiliary hydraulics - I am guessing the connection to the planter would need to be modified but otherwise would this work?  Not sure about the hose setup - would one just add extensions to the existing ones?  I would not be using the lift arms anyway so that would not be a problem.  

Anybody have ... or know of any pictures of an auxiliary hydraulics setup on a WD?  There is nothing in the owners manual that I have that says anything about setting something like this up - either with the AC lift cylinder or using a totally independent cylinder.