More on 8 - 30 planter over narrow bridge

Thanks for all of your ideas. The bridge is actually a concrete structure - all below the road bed. The rails are just angle iron to identify the edge. The road is dirt with NO traffic except us and another 80 acres. Also people who are lost or hunters. County closed the road years ago 1000 feet beyond the bridge so the other farmer can get to his field. In fact the road is a dirt or mud road. The bridge is actually covered with dirt. Maybe I could just move more dirt onto the road so I could clear the rails. Making one rail fold down might work too. The John Deere is end transport. The Kinze is not. Deere is $3000, Kinze is $5000. Deere has no attachments except dry fertilizer. Nice Yetter end transport. Markers fold and sort of bent some. No trash movers and No coulters. Sort of a conventional till planter. I will be doing all no till. An old girl, but taken care of. The Kinze does have trash whippers, extensions on all boxes, drives with the rubber wheels contacting the lift wheels, dry fertilizer with extensions, Orthman (sp??) fertilizer openers, end drive for seed and fertilizer, good paint, nice folding markers. Precision corn meters. No end transport. Is the Kinze worth the $2000 extra?????

Not if you can"t gEt it to the field

(quoted from post at 13:19:50 01/24/10) Is the Kinze worth the $2000 extra?????

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Yes, Its going to cost you more than two grand to set that Deere up for notill.

Go with the kinze by all means.Jim

As said it's going to cost you more than $2000 to get the JD to where it will be as good a planter as the Kinze. Even if you have to rig up an end transport for the Kinze when it's all said and done you are going to have better planter that you will be happier with and not much more money in it. It don't take long for a good planter to pay for it's self in money and aggravation.

Dave

Turn the 8 row into a 4 row planter! Could be done by either torching off the outer 2 rows on each end or just cut into two halves. Or find my Dads 494 from 1959 in the back pasture. Could get brothers D 7 and cover the bridge floor with dirt and drive you 8 row over the top of the railings. This would give the boy's a Duke of Hazrad ramp.

Sounds like only one time to get it to farm? Or moving to different farms all the time? If one time and buying from dealer just have them deliever with a big truck like they haul combines on. If just direct from a different farmer they might still haul it for you.