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Topic: allis planter ???

Posted By: BiG210
Subject: allis planter ???
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2010 at 3:18pm

Just about done with the rebuild and need some advice. Long or short seed pads. large or medium seed disks. and front gauge wheels or not on the planter units. Plan to do corn only with it and never had an air planter before. thank you.

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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2010 at 9:59pm

the important thing is to have seed plates that match the seed size. My best luck was running medium round seed using the medium seed plates. I'm not sure how guage wheels work, I've not used them. As far as long or short pads, I'd say go for the long ones. I had some trouble with singulation using small seed and a low population, and so I spent a chunk of change on short pads, and they didn't help a bit. I was running model 77 units, which was AC's first air champ, and my book said that there was an optional seed baffle, which became standard on later models like the 78 and 79, which said would help this problem. I made some using a picture as a guide, and they did more good than the short pads. Hope this helps some. Darrel

Posted By: nickia
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2010 at 12:37pm

i agree with darrel i would stick with the long pads and medium corn plates i use my gauage wheels on mine to keep the planter from going to deep in our peat ground very good planters as long as the back wheel turns your planting youll like it. darrel dii you say you made your seed pads? what did you use? Nick

Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2010 at 2:05pm

Nick, I did not make pads, I made seed baffles. What the seed baffle does is keeps the lower seed chamber from getting to much seed in it when planting low populations and small seed. What happens when seeding low rates and small seeds,is that seed shakes down into the lower chamber faster than it gets seeded out, then the seed level in the lower chamber gets so full that the planter won't singulate, and you start getting doubles and sometimes even triples. I run accross the baffles in an operators manual for model 78 and 79 units, which said that the baffles were standard on 78's and 79's, but not the 77's which i had. Most people probably would never encounter this situation, because most seed a higher population than we do here in western ND. Also, I'll never seed small sized seeds again, and that will help. Darrel