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Jwmac7060 
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 Posted: 15 May 2015 at 9:51pm |
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I remember when I was young of only one farmer around here had a 24 row. I remember being amazed at that going through the field. At the time all we had was a six row and I kept asking Dad,"Why don't we get one of them?" His response was,," we couldn't afford it, and if we could, we couldn't work ground fast enough in front of it anyway." We now run a 16-32 kinze and I have no idea how he ever got anything done planting 1000 acres of beans and corn... All the big farmers around here now have at least 1 24 row planter...hell I used to think 12 was huge
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Mike Kroupa
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Posted: 15 May 2015 at 10:03pm |
Just for the record Kinze mfg. introduced their Rear Folding planter in 1975 in various row spacing widths and toolbar widths to 60'. The first one were JD green w/jd 7000 units, next was the red painted toolbar w/kinze units and the last ones were blue toolbar w/kinze units. Very simple and unique design as it did not require hyd. power for folding or unfolding. Everybody else at the time was using Donahue type trailers for transport. Local White dealer in the mid eighties sold several of the 40' Carmaco Bars and installed white row units on them. We had 3 of the RF's through the years with the last being this 24rn. 
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Mike Plotner
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Posted: 16 May 2015 at 10:32am |
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I ran a 36 row DB planter once... now that was interesting. still prefer the 190 with a 7000 behind it! got a 8 row Allis in the weeds I need to fix up...
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2001 Gleaner R42, 1978 7060, 1977 7000, 1966 190 XT, 1966 D-17 Series IV and 1952 WD and more keep my farm running!
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Orange Blood
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Posted: 16 May 2015 at 3:49pm |
I lot of folks in the Central Nebraska area that jumped on the 24-36 row bandwagon, are selling and going back to 16 rows, just too many fences, and point rows. You spend twice the time turning around, than you do planting.
I also think it is a sign of the times, when the seed company that leases our ground, pulls in with two big huge Red tractors, each with 12 row planters, and sits for an hour programming all the gadgets. I know our old JD 7000 6 row, was slow, but we pulled in checked a couple things, and wham.....started planting.
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Unit3
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Posted: 16 May 2015 at 9:34pm |
 Mike Kroupa wrote:
Just for the record Kinze mfg. introduced their Rear Folding planter in 1975 in various row spacing widths and toolbar widths to 60'. The first one were JD green w/jd 7000 units, next was the red painted toolbar w/kinze units and the last ones were blue toolbar w/kinze units. Very simple and unique design as it did not require hyd. power for folding or unfolding. Everybody else at the time was using Donahue type trailers for transport. Local White dealer in the mid eighties sold several of the 40' Carmaco Bars and installed white row units on them. We had 3 of the RF's through the years with the last being this 24rn. |
Mike, just had to share, I finally figured out how to fold the rf Kinze. First I back up so the caster wheels point out ahead. Then I pinned the caster wheel and it folds driving straight ahead in 50'. I would love to show it on YouTube.
Edited by Unit3 - 16 May 2015 at 9:38pm
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jiminnd
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Posted: 17 May 2015 at 8:41am |
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That big JD is a 72 row with sort of paired rows, neighbor got one this spring, is kind of a joint venture with Stine Seeds, they put out a few for seed population and row spacing testing, I know they planted some corn from 25000 seeds per acre up to 50000 seeds, they got some kind of a deal with Stine.
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Mike Plotner
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Posted: 17 May 2015 at 8:56am |
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oh yeah, I've read about that. supposed to be twin rows that are 8 inches apart then 20 from the next set if I remember right. seems like a awful good way to spend more on seed. I bet if I wanted to I could turn the old Allis into one that would do just as good.... wouldn't they crap themselves!
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2001 Gleaner R42, 1978 7060, 1977 7000, 1966 190 XT, 1966 D-17 Series IV and 1952 WD and more keep my farm running!
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jiminnd
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Posted: 17 May 2015 at 2:08pm |
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The one they have is 8 inches between paired row and then 12 inches between pairs, they have been planting with 36 row 20 inch for probably 15 or 20 years so this is basically a 20 in with another one stuck in.
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1945 C, 1949 WF and WD, 1981 185, 1982 8030, unknown D14(nonrunner)
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