Kit Mounts Kinze Seed Units On Deere 750 Drill

Kit mounts Kinze seed units on Deere 750 drill FERTILIZER APPLICATION Fertilizer Application (58f) 17-6-39 If you own a Deere 750 no-till drill, you'll be interested in this conversion kit that lets you replace the drill's original metering units with brush-type seed metering units designed to mount on Kinze and Deere row crop planters. The idea is the brainchild of Gary Beek and Dennis McWilliams, who both farm near Greene, Iowa. They mounted Kinze metering units on their 15-ft. drills for their own use and then came up with a kit that's now being manufactured by American Tool & Engineering. To install, you remove the drill's hopper and existing metering unit, then bolt on a special-built manifold to which you bolt the Kinze units. All parts mount using existing bolt holes and you still use the drill's original drive unit. "Deere 750 no-till drills are the best on the market. They have good depth control, but I wanted more accurate population control than the drill's original metering system could offer," says Beek. "It's difficult to adjust seeding rates on the drill because of bean size variations. Big soy-beans get ground up and smaller beans drop into the seed tubes together. With the Kinze brush units, I not only know exactly what my seeding rates are, I also know seeds are being dropped one at a time. We don't permanently modify drill at all so you can convert back without affecting resale value." The manifold sells for $3,000. Kinze metering units sell for $100 apiece. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, American Tool & Engineering, Inc., 410 W. Traer, Box 599, Greene, Iowa 50636 (ph 515 823-4921).

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