I'm debating changing my openers on my 12" spacing, 4 rank, edge on shank concord drill. I currently have 7"Farmland Chrome sweeps with a back swept knife for the dry and nh3 (all sweeps and knives are in great shape).
I have several issues with my current setup
1) its rough as heck (because the sweeps are wider than the packer tires?)
2) I have quite a bit of nh3 gassing off at times (I may switch to banding the nh3 separately)
3) soil doesn't seem to flow around and cover the seed consistently, the coverage is mainly from soil getting flung over from the other shanks
4) I'm limited to about 4.5 mph to do a good job of placement with canola, any faster and the flying soil buries some to deep. It had disc levelers when I got it but they were pretty rough and a big problem in heavy straw so I pulled them off. (straw clearance is great now)
The cheapest would be to go to a 4" Farmland chrome sweep, I would still have my nh3 problem though and if soil doesn't flow around and cover it wouldn't throw far enough from neighboring shanks to cover.
Will the field finish be much better with Atom Jet or Dutch? Or is the the concord packer design?
I've read that the Gen 300 openers are pretty good in wet conditions (plugging the seed opening) and soil flows around covering the seed vs flinging shank to shank, should let me pick up my speed a bit? They are also pretty affordable compared to the dutch/atom jet options (unless they don't work).
The Gen are 157/shank with nose carbide or 203 with full carbide and the Atom Jet or Dutch are another 100 opener. I like to save money but really need to do it right this time. Anybody else still seeding with one of these dinosaurs?
Thanks
I have several issues with my current setup
1) its rough as heck (because the sweeps are wider than the packer tires?)
2) I have quite a bit of nh3 gassing off at times (I may switch to banding the nh3 separately)
3) soil doesn't seem to flow around and cover the seed consistently, the coverage is mainly from soil getting flung over from the other shanks
4) I'm limited to about 4.5 mph to do a good job of placement with canola, any faster and the flying soil buries some to deep. It had disc levelers when I got it but they were pretty rough and a big problem in heavy straw so I pulled them off. (straw clearance is great now)
The cheapest would be to go to a 4" Farmland chrome sweep, I would still have my nh3 problem though and if soil doesn't flow around and cover it wouldn't throw far enough from neighboring shanks to cover.
Will the field finish be much better with Atom Jet or Dutch? Or is the the concord packer design?
I've read that the Gen 300 openers are pretty good in wet conditions (plugging the seed opening) and soil flows around covering the seed vs flinging shank to shank, should let me pick up my speed a bit? They are also pretty affordable compared to the dutch/atom jet options (unless they don't work).
The Gen are 157/shank with nose carbide or 203 with full carbide and the Atom Jet or Dutch are another 100 opener. I like to save money but really need to do it right this time. Anybody else still seeding with one of these dinosaurs?
Thanks
Concord openers, Dutch, Gen, AtomJet, Farmland
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