This Really Could Really Ramp Up Our Planting Efficiency
3 Aug 241m 50s

Temple discusses his experience trialing the Fendt Momentum Planter, emphasizing its innovative features and how the low tire pressure system design seems to minimize soil compaction and the need for multiple trips to the nurse trailer.

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00:00 Let's talk a little bit about pinch rows. So we get pinch rows on our other planters because we run a small square tire 00:07 and it's got multiple tires across the planter, and it does a good job. This planter's a little bit different. 00:11 It's carrying all the weight on the planter itself. So it's got a thousand gallon tank on here. It's for two by two, and then 00:18 for in furrow it's got 450 gallons of in furrow. So I'm carrying a hundred acre load on my other planters. I'm only carrying a 50 acre load 00:27 and one planter carries a 60 acre load. So we're carrying a lot more, alleviating a lot more trips back to the nurse trailer. 00:34 We're doing all that. Well, this, you know, we also carry, you know, tanks on the tractors. 00:40 Well, that creates a lot of compaction. What happens on this tractor is it's got no tanks on it. You can hook it to any tractor. 00:47 This tractor runs real, real low tire pressure. It automatically goes right to that when you go into field mode. 00:54 So look how flat these tires are. They're only running 20 pounds of pressure in them. You can't even hardly see where the planter is going. 01:01 You can't, the tire tracks aren't there. You know, the other way it does, it is, see this big cylinder right here? 01:06 That big cylinder is taking pressure off the center of the planter and transferring it to the wings. The wings are on, are on the, you know, 01:15 those tires are pretty flat too, but there's one thing that saves a lot of time right there in the field 01:22 and they're able to put it all on the planter. And then I don't have to carry anything on my tractor. Like last year for instance, I had a tractor 01:29 that broke down in the field and it was broke down for 10 days and there was nothing I could do about it 01:35 because all my tanks were on my tractor and they's carrying all my in furlough and everything else. Well, on this one, I just get a different 01:43 tractor hook to this. Keep on rolling.

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