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 - Kenny, Fri, 5 Oct 2007 9:13PM
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.
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 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