12-Row Stackable Toolbar

12-Row Stackable Toolbar TOOLBARS Toolbars 24-5-27 After working on John Deere planters for 15 years, repair specialist Bob Jamison has a couple of better ideas for planter design. One is a new stackable 12-row, 15-in. planter. Whether off the shelf or direct from Deere or other companies, skip row planters for 15-in. beans never seem to get under a 21-ft. width. This makes it tricky going down most roads or hauling the planter from field to field. Jamison's idea was to stack his units in transport to achieve a 15-ft. width. Jamison started from scratch, building a frame from 7 by 7-in. steel tubing. The frame actually consists of three sets of two pieces of tubing separated by a gap of 8-in. The center set is 15 ft. wide, and each wing set is 7.5 ft wide. Two sets of parallel arms mounted on brass bushings raise the O-rings up over the center toolbar. A 5-in. cylinder on each side provides the lifting power. The lift arms are made from heavy 6 by 4 and 6 by 3-in. sq. tubing. "Planter units are never tipped so you don't have to worry about spilling seed," explains Jamison. "Most stackables if not all, are 3 pt. hitch units, but my personal preference was for a pull type." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bob Jamison, Jamison Ag Repair, 68664 260th Street, Colo, Iowa 50056 (ph 641 377-2627).

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