Thought I reconized the name of one of my customers that bought a Hopper Walker. Just wanted to say hi and hoping you have a safe and bountiful harvest
Nathan Korpan aka AGCOfan · 19 yr
Nice pictures. No harvest pictures? I see you have a Horst header wagon? There made not all that far from me. Pretty much everbody runs them around here. Take care, Nathan Korpan
enlarge 41KB, 576x382 1 Traded Kinze 16/32 for JD 1790 16/32 in 2006. We had to add our own insecticide since JD doesn't acknowledge need.
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enlarge 49KB, 382x576 5 We modified the lid on Orbit-Air to accept 3 Smart Boxes. However-we can & did use bagged insecticide also
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enlarge 51KB, 576x432 7 Feb 24 was "tractor day" @ Kurt's Ag Class. Kurt took the Buhler 2425
enlarge 47KB, 576x384 8 Early April allowed us to try planter out. All seemed fine w/all attachments
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enlarge 43KB, 576x382 11 Larry plants w/1790 planter w/Gandy OrbitAir insecticide. Worked good with no problems
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enlarge 55KB, 576x411 22 We made brackets to keep hoses/wires out of quik-coupler arms. Also-we added outside valves for adding air to downpressure bags on 1790
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enlarge 50KB, 576x382 24 Electric pump mounted inside cab. Not sure this is best place.
enlarge 49KB, 576x382 25 Metering system on Gandy Orbit Air. Worked pretty well, we did have a couple times that material got compacted in bottom after transporting planter.
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enlarge 2.84MB, 576x384 52 MOVIE Bean Hustler vac system drawing talc into line w/seed corn & blowing into CCS hopper
enlarge 2.95MB, 576x384 53 MOVIE BeanHustler vac system loading corn-showing hose routing
enlarge 1.71MB, 576x384 54 MOVIE Filling planter across a road ditch
