JD 7000 No Till

[Mad340]

I want to plant some of my own corn this year and I am looking at a 4 row JD 7000 conventional planter. It has the no till coulters on it. Would I be able to successfully no till corn into bean ground with this planter? Ideally I would want to remove the coulters and put on row cleaners and add some heavy duty down pressure springs. My ground is clay and stony which is why I want to no till. I have successfully no tilled beans the last 2 years with a Haybuster 77C.

 

[tomstractorsandtoys]

I notill with a 4 row 7200 conventional planter. I use a combo notill coulter and row cleaner and have the heavy duty down pressure springs. In very hard ground it helps to keep the boxes full to add more weight for penetration.Only once have I had where it would not plant deep enough to suit me and that was planting into a field that had rye chopped of when it was to wet and then the weather turned dry. You should also consider different closing wheels for notill. I run one cast and one spike wheel. Some people prefer two spike wheels or the finger wheels. Neighbor that custom plants does not run a notill coulter just row cleaners. He notills lots of acres and said he gets better depth control without the coulter. He claims a notill coulter row cleaner combo changes how the unit itself runs. Tom

 

[mudcreek183]

I have been no till into bean ground for many year with a 7000 with no major problems keeping the seed hopper full help a lot also, if the planter has insecticide boxes and are not being used fill them with sand for extra weight.As for closing wheels I run Schlagel Posi-Close Wheels `they do a very good of closing the seed trench.

 

[spacechem]

Bean ground should be mellow enough to give you no problems. In harder ground, you may be tempted to crank in more down pressure, but it is possible to put so much down pressure on the units that the planter frame is carried by the openers and the drive wheels start to skid and you may not notice it until the corn comes up with skips across all four rows.

 

[Paul swpa]

What I have been told, and I have done, is to put the remote hydraulic lever in float position after lowering the planter to plant. This leaves the wheels float so they always have ground contact to drive the planter units if you hit a hard spot that lifts the planter a little. Affects planting depth some but still gets seed in the ground instead of having skips. I also have a lot of heavy clay stony ground.

 

[VicS]

Yes my neighbor told me the same thing, but he couldn't get the seed trench to close right. To much sidewall compaction, hence poor stand. Our planter is a New Idea Kinze, but same as a 7000 basically. We have a no-till Coulter row cleaner combo. Keeton seed stompers. Spike closing wheels plus heavy drag chains. Presion seed meters. And yes run hyd in float and not over 5 mph.and not less than 4 mph.