White 5100

Any of you that have or had a 5100 ever have the chain that goes from the drive shaft to the seed unit come off, land on the shaft between the large driven sprocket and the small pesticide sprocket and empty your seed box before you knew it? Monitor just tells me that the unit was planting, not that it was planting 320,000 seeds per acre! Never had that happen before! And it will never happen again when I'm done with it!

Thankfully it only happened the last day I planted but it was corn. I think that row will look more like drill oats than corn! I'm getting rid of those plastic sprockets, they're wore out anyhow, and putting plastic rollers on and I'm going to figure a way to keep that chain from falling to that small shaft. A well placed bolt of some sort.

JimIA wrote: Thats one I have never heard of. But will keep a closer eye on my 5100 from here on out!   The newer White planters use flat idlers vs the sprockets. With the exception of not enough down pressure for no-til I really like my 5100.  When you get it set up it is an amazingly accurate planter. Jim

It was a shocking development for me. Chain drops from a sprocket that is 7 or 8 inches to a shaft less than an inch diameter really sped the seeding up.

FREEDGUY wrote: Lonn, I'm a little surprised you don't run a 7000/7200 (finger pick up) JD?

Why is that? We used to have a 7000 when I was growing up. A good planter no doubt but higher maintenance. Until a few years ago I used an Allis 330 too. I liked certain things of each over the White but the White has been good. Hard to get at the seed sensors and hard to empty the seed boxes but does a good job. If the Allis 330 was a 6 row I would have kept that. It was very easy to get at everything on the 330.

On a 7000 you susposed to recalibrate on a test stand every 200ac per row.

Thanks Lonn, before we got the JD 7000, dad looked at a 5100 but had electrically driven units ?? He said he wanted NO part of that set-up LOL !! Have never had a belt break in the 13 years it got ran on 35'ish acres(some beans were split rowed though) and the units were calibrated at the seed dealers test stand and came out 99.2% accurate . Granted, it's only a 4/30 Consertill.

FREEDGUY wrote: Thanks Lonn, before we got the JD 7000, dad looked at a 5100 but had electrically driven units ?? He said he wanted NO part of that set-up LOL !! Have never had a belt break in the 13 years it got ran on 35'ish acres(some beans were split rowed though) and the units were calibrated at the seed dealers test stand and came out 99.2% accurate . Granted, it's only a 4/30 Consertill.

My 330 had electric blowers and it worked fine. I imagine if you get up to 12 rows or more you'd need pto driven alternator or a really big one on the tractor. Or some have converted them to a hydraulic blower.

Lonn, dad was coming off of a JD 494A WITHOUT disc openers of any kind LOL!! The simplicity of our 7000 ground drive is pretty fool proof IMO .