songbirdfarm
New User
I'm in a hurry to figure this out, so I'm cross posting in a couple other forums. Hope that's OK.
I have a two row Allis Chalmers snap coupler corn planter that I use to plant 2-4 acres of flint corn up here in Maine. The previous owner converted it to a three point hitch, and it works great! I've heard that you can change the sprocket arrangement to speed up or slow down the plates - I'm hoping to speed up the planting rate to plant dry beans. Anyone out there have a user manual they could glance at for me for the bean setting?
The current arrangement is a 12 tooth sprocket on the drive shaft and a six tooth sprocket on the seed hopper side, which drops a seed about every 9.5 inches. A little farther apart that what I might like, but it works for our corn. I know that I need a bigger drive sprocket to speed up to a 3-4 inch spacing for dry beans, which I'll need to locate and purchase once I figure out how many teeth I'm looking for. (Anyone have any leads?)
Thanks!
I have a two row Allis Chalmers snap coupler corn planter that I use to plant 2-4 acres of flint corn up here in Maine. The previous owner converted it to a three point hitch, and it works great! I've heard that you can change the sprocket arrangement to speed up or slow down the plates - I'm hoping to speed up the planting rate to plant dry beans. Anyone out there have a user manual they could glance at for me for the bean setting?
The current arrangement is a 12 tooth sprocket on the drive shaft and a six tooth sprocket on the seed hopper side, which drops a seed about every 9.5 inches. A little farther apart that what I might like, but it works for our corn. I know that I need a bigger drive sprocket to speed up to a 3-4 inch spacing for dry beans, which I'll need to locate and purchase once I figure out how many teeth I'm looking for. (Anyone have any leads?)
Thanks!