Contents Page Safety .. 0... Safety Signs . 0... ee es 05-1 .................0.00. 10-1 Preparing the Tractor Hydraulic Pressure ...............000. 15-1 Check Tractor Hydraulic System ......... Rockshaft Selector Lever .............. Link Lengths ............ 0.008 e eee 15-1 15-1 15-2 Sway .......... 00000 eee eee 15-2 Tire SiIZ@ 2. ee es Check Tire Inflation ................0.. Rear Wheel Weighting ................ Setting Wheel Tread ...............-.. Front End Weighting ..............0-. Set Tractor Control Valve Lever ......... 15-3 15-3 15-3 15-4 15-4 15-4 Selective Control Valve Lever Stop ....... Auxiliary Return Line Coupler Attachment ... Directional Valve ...........2.
0002 eee 15-5 15-6 15-6 Blocks Preparing Planters Equipped w/Single-Disk Fert. Opener ... 0... ce Preparing the Vacuum Seed Disks .............-... Seed Disks ................. Seed Disks ..............-... Vacuum Meter Insert Installing Seed Disk Meter Unit .................. Adjusting Meter Hub.................. Sugar Beet and Sorghum Seed Knockout Wheel .. 0.0.2... 0. ee ee Installing Knockout Assembly Installing Vacuum Preparing the Plateless Meter Unit Plateless Seed Hoppers ............... ............... 20-1 Soybean Changing Row Widths ................ Lubrication .... 0.0.0. cee ee Selecting Seed Plates (Plate Seed Meters) .. 2... . 0.0.
e eee ee ee eee 20-1 20-2 Low Rate Sorghum ................. Acid-Delinted Cotton, Small Soybeans .... Attaching and 2... 0.0. eee 20-2 Detaching Attaching Planter to Tractor Attaching Monitor to Tractor Detaching cee ............ ............ 25-1 25-8 Planter from Tractor .......... 25-9 Detaching Monitor from Tractor .......... 25-10 35-12 35-13 35-15 35-16 Meter Brush Check Hydraulic Connections 20-1 2... 35-1 35-3 35-5 35-7 35-8 35-10 Selecting Correct Vacuum Meter Brush ... . 35-14 Changing Vacuum Meter Brush ..........
35-14 ee Tire Inflation ..............+4- es 30-13 Choosing Selecting Selecting Adjusting Feed Cup Metering Unit Feed Cups the Planter Tightening Hardware Page Replace Feed Feed Cup ...............04.- Cup w/Finger Pickup ....... Operating the Planter General Information ...............0.. Raising and Lowering the Planter Leveling the Planter .................. Marker Length ..............00200 08» Raising and Lowering Markers ........... Marker Float Range ...........-..-..+... Marker Off Switch Independent Marker Control (Optional) ..... Marker Breakaway Bolt................ Transporting Transport Safely ............220+-0 Folding the Planter................04.
Unfolding the Planter ................. 30-1 30-1 30-7 Continued on next page All information, illustrations and specifications in this manual are based on the latest information available at the time of publication. reserved to make The right is changes at any time without notice. OMA51905 GO-19-18JUL90 COPYRIGHT® 1990 DEERE & COMPANY Moline, Illinois All rights reserved A John Deere ILLUSTRUCTION™ Previous Copyright® 1989, 1988, Manual Editions 1987 Deere & Company 180790