Test Deere Planters At Home

Test Deere Planters At Home PLANTERS Planters 28-2-39 "While setting up a new Deere planter with hydraulic drive we discovered that we could not turn the seed drive system in the shop because Deere has a shutoff built into the drive that will not allow it to work unless the planter is moving. That was a problem because we like to check all the drive trains, sprockets and shaft alignments before going back into the field," says Chris Steidinger, Princeville, Ill. "So we came up with a service kit that will hook up to the planter sensors and allow us to simulate ground speed, wheel and radar, as well as lowering the planter. "The wheel speed simulator plugs right in place of the Deere sensor and simulates a speed of 5 mph. The hydraulic drive won't activate unless it thinks the planter is moving. "I also had a customer with a 24-row planter use the service kit when a wheel sensor broke on his planter," says Steidinger. "The sensor broke on a Friday and he couldn't get a replacement until Monday. So he used the service kit to fool the planter into thinking he was moving, and planted 650 acres over the weekend until the new sensor was available. "We've caught bent drive shafts, bad drive chain links, broken sprockets and other alignment problems without wasting time in the field," says Steidinger. "The kit sells for $275." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Chris Steidinger, 11725 W. Mendell Rd., Princeville, Ill. 61559 (ph 309 238-1061; email: csteidinger@bwsys.net).

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