Mph planting beans
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Topic: Mph planting beans
Posted By: bleeds orange
Subject: Mph planting beans
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2020 at 9:01pm
333 planter 74 unit plate with allis plates what's a good speed to plant beans?
Thanks cory
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Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2020 at 6:29am
A plate type planter, planting anything is best done at the speed a horse can walk.
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If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere.
Real pullers don't have speed limits.
If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY
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Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2020 at 12:14pm
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2nd gear high side of the power director wide open series 4 diesel. Don't know how fast that is but it worked for me. 494A JD planter same gear but only 1/2 throttle.
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Posted By: tomNE
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2020 at 12:51pm
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In the olden days! it was recommended never to plant over 5mph! that is the end of my knowledge on this subject!
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AC from the start of my families farming career till the end!
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Posted By: jiminnd
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2020 at 8:37pm
Until you get into these new high speed planters, 5 mph is good. Nephew has 2 JD planters, about 5 years old, plants corn at 5 mph and beans at 6mph.
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1945 C, 1949 WF and WD, 1981 185, 1982 8030, unknown D14(nonrunner)
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2020 at 6:27am
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Planting beans with plates is a "controlled slobber", so speed is much less important than for corn. If you go too fast with corn, you have trouble with singulation, skips, and spacing. Spacing can get screwed up if you plant too slow as well (at least according to the chart in the manual, too slow hasn't been a desire of mine!). We used to have an Allis planter, I don't recall the model number, but I never planted beans with it. I still plant with plate style JD, and I go up a gear at least with beans and it works good.
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Posted By: wekracer
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2020 at 6:42am
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Agree with everything Tbone said about corn. I have a kinze 8-15 and I try to run 4.5 mph planting corn. It has brush meters for beans and I run about 6 mph.
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Posted By: tomNE
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2020 at 8:34am
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controlled slobber; that's a good one! I'm gonna try to remember that one!
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AC from the start of my families farming career till the end!
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