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bjrogg:
Yes definitely yo-yo weather. I really don’t care for our spring weather. Normally it’s cold, damp and muddy. With a lot of icing wind right off the big lake. My back is getting stiff and sore just thinking about it.
Well I got done with our meetings and tried the planter. 2/3rds of it seemed to be working but one of our existing motors wasn’t turning. I’m hoping it just needs some calibration or a button push but nobody I can talk to now.
Looks like some more trouble shooting
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
I got my planter working. The seed star needed to calibrate its third drive position. I was thinking I could do this by running one of the system test designed to work with planter in up position but I couldn’t. I actually had to put it down and drive about 200’. The ground is a mix of mud and frozen. I had to remove the fertilizer knives we just put on or they would probably have gotten damaged. Then I put the planter down turn everything on and drove. The third motor speed up and slowed down several times until it ran its calibration and then it ran at the proper speed.
The monitor was seeing each rows seed drop and counting population. I didn’t want to run the planter through the mud and frozen gravel any more than I had to. I did the rest of the test I could with planter in up position. Seems like it’s going to work.
Next I have to get the other systems working. My Air Force system uses air bags to either put more or less down pressure on the planter units to insure the seed disks can cut into the dirt properly. I tried the test for the Air Force system but it failed . I found a couple leaks I fixed and one of the air bags that came with the used rows units we added had a leak . I went to my precision dealer and got two new ones. Didn’t get them replaced yet, but hopefully tomorrow and hopefully it passes the tests then.
It’s sure a good feeling to have the planter and monitor working. I still have to put the new hoses on the fertilizer system.
Also have to put my spray pump, tanks and controller.
It should be just my normal familiar problems now. Hopefully not to many of them either.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Starting to look a little more like spring.
Got air bags changed and air leaks fixed.
Next step is fertilizer system.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Been working at plumbing the new fertilizer hoses. I changed the 1 1/2” from the tank to the pump. Then I changed the 1” one from pump to manifold. Now I’m running individual rows to the new redball monitor. This is for one half of the planter. There are two of these. There will be 18 hoses going to each of them when I’m done. 9 from the manifold to red ball monitor. And 9 from monitor to each row.
Coming along nicely.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Put in a couple night overtime and did this.
Snapped my perform a couple nights ago.
Then I changed course and came up with this
We got our snow back, but the days are getting longer. Eventually it will thaw out.
Bjrogg
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