Row (Corn and Bean) Planters

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Video of Aimee explaining corn planting.

Video of a biggy going down road, unfolding, includes various closeups. Can see corn stalks left on ground.

Video of two horses pulling two row. Notice tanks for just seed, no fertilizer, no herbicide, and no pesticide.

Video of unfolding and backing into first two corners to get good coverage. Text indicates the GPS knows where the first swath ended and will turn off those rows until past the first swath.

Video starts with some secondary tillage, then the planting. Used a drone. At 2:04, they do have to reload fluids in the field. At 5:09, folds for transport then goes down roads. They do hog both lanes.

Video of a "seed tender."

Ramiro C. Salinas posted

Ramiro C. Salinas posted

Ramiro C. Salinas posted

CaseIH advertisement video.

Several pictures of a JD 999 2-row with a seat (horse drawn).

Dave Bakker posted
290 Planter

Dave Bakker posted two pictures of his restored J.D. 999. They started building it in 1928 and quit at some point in the late 40's.

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Drew Ireland posted

Drew's comment "Another nice planter with all the boxes." It looks like there are four boxes per row. I think the big boxes in front would be fertalizer. The round "boxes" would be for the seed. The two smaller boxes at the rear are for herbicide and insecticide.

Drew Ireland posted

Tony Clark posted a couple of pictures that include an unstyled M:

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Todd Moore posted three photos of what was a horse drawn 2-row planter converted to be pulled by a compact tractor.

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Drew Irland posted a couple of pictures:

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Video, including notill at 3:40 and 4:00. 10-mph planting. Video of a pivot planter. I have no idea what he was waiting for after he pulled in the drawbar. Also, something has a very high pitch. Is that the turbo? I never felt a need to wear ear protection while driving a tractor. But the high pitch all day long would drive me bonkers. The planter is way too big for the size of the field. My grandfather's fields were a half-mile long and could have made good use of the bigger equipment. At first I was concerned that the planter was so big for the field that a lot of the areas were being overlapped and seeded twice. I have learned that with GPS the tractor+planter can keep track of where it has been. The planter evidently has computer control of each seed drop and can individually turn off a seed drop if it is overlapping a previously planted area of the field. However, the field must be convoluted enough that he has to use the marker wheel instead of self-steering GPS. (Update: indeed, each row is computer controlled. Note only can it turn the seeding on and off to avoid overlapped seeding, it can vary the rate of the seed drop based on soil conditions that it senses such as organic matter content. And the computer can control the depth of the seed by sensing moisture content. Another article on "smart planting" in the same day.)

Kevin Kasowski posted
My Allis Chalmers CA with an Allis no till planter
[Given the Allis-Chalmers paint scheme, this no-till planter must be rather old. I thought no-till planting was a rather recent development.]

Screenshot from a video of planting soybeans 60-feet at a time with 620hp

An entire field in 15-min in case I can't find the previous posting. Make more sense if each row is computer controlled as to when to drop seed.

Normally, no-tillage means planting in the previous years corn stubble. But in this video they are planting in a cover crop.

PetCare
620 John Deere pulling a 490 John Deere
[This the first time I have seen the fertilizer boxes mounted longitudinally instead of transversely.]

Keith Bergstrom posted
Zach Van Westen I would say one of those circle squadron hitches
Zach Van Westen It's a 1971 or 1972 model year planter judging by the leaping Deere logo on the seed boxes.
Mike Aylward Two 1300 planters with individual seed boxes.
Kelly Hemrich This would have been a BIG deal!
Dennis DeBruler So the long boxes are fertilizer. Then seed boxes. What were the two little boxes? Herbicide and pesticide?
Keith Bergstrom According to my 1240 manual fert. then seed then insecticide then herbicide

We seem to be in a race for the size of the seed bin as well as the number of rows and the accuracy with which seeds are dropped at high speeds.

Combines Harvesters Threshers posted

Seed Hawk’s new air seeder cart, capable of holding 1,300 bushels of product, weighs 34,393 pounds. | Seed Hawk photo

I saw a planter being hauled down I-57 on a flatbed truck and realized they are pushing the envelope on what can be easily transported. And a video of that model in action. Notice he doesn't have any markers on the planter so he is GPS guided (auto steer).






This is the first time I've seen the bulk loader augur deployed for loading.


If you right-click to get the URL, you can put that URL in a new browser window. Then You Tube will give offer even more videos on air carts.

Screenshot    After explaining how an air planter works, she demonstrates automated steering.

Jerry Pearson posted two photos with the comment: "Dad planting corn late 1970's vs Middle 1950's." I'm surprised he didn't have an air conditioned cab given that it looks like he has a 16-row planter.

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Here is a video of a 72-row John Deere planter.

Zells claims to be the largest air seeder.  214ft. A comment says Hydros92. Does that mean 92 rows?


After watching this video of CaseIH spring tillage and planter equipment that had very little information, there was a link to a web page that did have some information. But the most interesting information was some of the comments on the video posting --- CaseIH doesn't care if it has bad dealers.