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Looking to add floating row cleaners with clean sweep to our JD 1760 with XP row units. Will be planting corn in field cultivated bean stubble and we are transitioning into no till soybeans. Will probably plant some beans into tilled corn stalks. Also would a spiked wheel be better than a shark tooth? Thanks in advance!
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Try a good strip tiller. Keep the strip tiller and planter simple. Don't need all the extra stuff. Excellent stands are provided at less cost. The trick is no till. Been at it for 40 years and it keeps getting better
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No till beans strip till corn. Got to put nh3 on some how. Take advantage of the knife. It's free.
Are u no-till or strip till?
We have been running Martin row cleaners with 2 1/2 inch float for five years now very happy with the performance in all types of soil and residue conditions
Agfocus with shark tooth are awesome I like the pull design
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I have had the best luck with Yetter row cleaners that have the shark tooth cleaners with depth bands. I use clean sweep but have not been overly impressed. It has been quite a bit of work to keep the leaks out of the system.
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Same. Yetters with shark tooth and depth bands on clean sweep system. The planter has been cleaned and shopped right away when planting is completed. So far in the 3 seasons we've had clean sweep on I've yet to go a full week without a leak somewhere. Got so tired of it last year, we had a rain delay and we replaced every single air hose on the damn thing and replaced a lot of the elbows and T's a...
****** row Cleaners are very durable in 6 seasons I have never replaced a bearing I would stick with the standard wheels feel like they move less soil
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We have Dawns, work well for no-till. Can't even tell u how many thousands of acres are on them and never have done anything but grease them once a yr.
Looking at Precision for next yr, with option of controlling them from the cab.
And if your in soft ground or planting high speed go with the wide depth band. Just my thought
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Yea spiked with depth band.
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***** with the two bearing hub are very durable and do a great job. Adding a clean sweep to control them from the cab is awesome we have 3 planters set up this way. I’ve tried yetter sharktooth and could only get 1000 AC through them before bearings started to fail
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So your ******'s have spiked tooth wheels with depth bands i assume?
I run some floating ones made by ****'s Repair out of Bird Island, MN. Don't think they'd work too well with clean sweep though. I've used them on no till beans on beans and in strip tilled corn ground and they've worked great. They are nice and heavy duty, tough and pretty simple.
I have the precision clean sweep with Shark teeth and hydraulic down pressure. Now I realize my real problem is I am not closing. Planting into corn stalks is the challenge because the residue bunches up and then can’t close the mud underneath the residue. Going to the Yetter Twister with the angler adjustment thinking it’s better to close from the side rather than more down pressure. The clean ...
Use Dawn hydraulic cleaners. Would only consider air if you already have air on the planter. But still short term solution. Hydraulic is where everything is headed.
The suncos were shark tooth
The Martin we use now are spiked wheels
I had suncos didn’t like how much dirt they moved switched to Martin with clean sweep there much better for me for sure in soft ground.
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Did you use shark tooth wheels or spiked wheels?
Really like Dawn Gfx’s. Great control and cleaning. Not attached to row unit to put vibration or strain on it and the bushings.
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I was going to comment on the same vibration/strain thing myself. I went from the CleanSweep w/floating yetters w/depth bands, which worked well but I could visually see the vibration at times when running down or crossing and old soy/corn rows. I investigated my options well and while I truly love the Dawn Gfx's, the cost is super high and I'm not trying to move soil when possible so I found Ag...
Absolutely agree. Can raise when necessary and operator has great control of how aggressive you want to be.
If you want ultimate control, add clean sweep from 20/20 Precision Planting. Or similar system. You can pick up the row cleaners, and let them float along, works beautiful.
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That's what I was thinking. I'm pretty sure if we switch we will put clean ***** or ******'s version on them
Martin row cleaners are what we have used for years. I believe the make the most durable and toughest row cleaner on the market
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Yes I agree. When you wear them down put on back for closing wheels . Remember to Stwich left and right . They are the same wheel
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You want the residue to be swept out of the way only rather than push a significant amount of soil and residue out of the way in tandem. Sharktooth or swept teeth with floater wheels or depth bands will do a better job at full planting speed than straight teeth do.
Personally I like the sunco SaberTooth floaters because they roll the reside out of the way rather than push it to the side because o...
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The fixed row cleaners will plow badly in tilled ground no matter which brand you have. The floating bracket coupled with cleans weep will do much better. Most people run about 20-30psi of lift in tilled or bean stubble conditions
I checked out sunco units at s local farm show yesterday. I really like the look of them. With clean sweep I know I can limit dirt moment but have you seen them be really aggressive on soft tilled ground?