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| I was just being honest with him. Everyone's situation is different. For us it means a lot to be able to carry seed on the planter easily because we have a lot of smaller fields. If you don't road it much the Kinze is fine, however we are 23 miles from one side to the other and spend a lot o time on the road. It's a simple fact that the Kinze will bounce front to back and you have to go slower with it on rough roads. We fight as much traffic in the suburbs of Kansas City as anyone else does. Although we're on paved roads, all the pot holes and seams in the asphalt will bounce a Kinze planter all over the place. The Deere is solid as a rock. Transport width is a non issue with either one you're fine if you're behind a dualed up tractor.
I didn't try to run the Kinze down, it's not a bad planter, but I would make the same decision again in a heartbeat because of the time the CCS saved us when we were planting, let along the convience of only loading seed corn once a day. For that matter I guess you could put in enough for half your farm, but I never felt that comfortable getting so far ahead of myself with corn seed. For me, a farmer with bad joints and premature arthritis from chemo, filling corn seed once a day meant that I could schedule it when a kid that helps us was out of Juco in the afternoon so I didn't have to do it by myself. That saved me 30 minutes vs if I had been doing it by myself. By the time the weather dried up so we could plant beans he was out of school and I let him plant while I was in the dump trailer on construction jobs. With the big hoppers Dad could pull the bean seed wagon to him and fill him up and he could run about 2/3 of the day, fill him again and he was good to noon the next day. It helped because Charlie was on a construction job with his track hoe, I was in the dump trailer and my 82 yr old Dad was all that was needed to keep the planter supplied, it wasn't like he had to sit out in the field all day to fill him up every hour.
Just what is it exactly that you think we should of done? I'd love to hear it.
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A few questions about the kinze planters
