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ibleedorange 
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Posted: 30 May 2017 at 4:39pm |
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My neighbor has a JD 7000 4 row planter. She plants about 80
acres of sweet corn every year. Her lead man told her that about half the seed
is getting crushed or cracked. Anybody any experience like this? I put in new augers from Shoup a couple years ago.
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of time for any insight you could provide.
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bobkyllo
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Posted: 30 May 2017 at 5:14pm |
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New augers for what? That planter should not be crushing the seed. I'm not totally familiar with the junk Deere but I don't think you have to change any settings when you switch seed size.
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bakwoodsfarm
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Posted: 30 May 2017 at 5:27pm |
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The only augers are in the fertilizer bins, it has a belt metering system, I don't see how it can crush seed at all.
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Daehler
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Posted: 30 May 2017 at 5:50pm |
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If the meters havent been tested, they need to be. Something could be broke or out of time. We have our finger meters ran every year to make sure singulation is up to par and to make sure there are no broken parts. It is posible that when the finger comes around and grabs a kernel it could crack it especially if there is to much tension on the spring, Sweet corn seed is a little different than field corn. By the way 80 acres is a lot of sweet corn!!
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Posted: 30 May 2017 at 8:44pm |
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Put it on the test stand. But I doubt it's the meters. We planted a chunk without issues. We could even plant sunflowers without issues.
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Wayne180d
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Posted: 30 May 2017 at 8:49pm |
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I planted with a 7000 for five years and never had an issue with crushing or cracking the seed. I wanted a IH Cyclo but this one came available and was priced right for a Deere in our area and was very happy with it.
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Posted: 31 May 2017 at 2:36am |
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some 7000's were finger fed, and some used the old style planter plates, which is that one?
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Tbone95
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Posted: 31 May 2017 at 6:21am |
Exactly what Shameless said, finger pickup or plate style meter? I'd think if plates and your plates are too big, you could be crushing some seed. I don't know about "half", that would be terrible, but it could happen I suppose if the cell size was way off. "Belt metering system"? I have no idea what this means. Nothing like that on a 7000.
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old farmer
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Posted: 31 May 2017 at 6:58am |
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Deere uses a belt to get seed from finger pickup to discharge point at ground level.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 31 May 2017 at 7:05am |
 old farmer wrote:
Deere uses a belt to get seed from finger pickup to discharge point at ground level. |
Yeah, but that's hardly the metering system.
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