River-X
5 year old buck +
I got a chance to hook up and try out the new drill yesterday afternoon. I took it over to a farm where we had taken out a fence line between two fields, and to prevent washout, I seeded in a waterway until the old fenceline ground settles. The Genesis worked real good.
I know these things are cost prohibitive for a lot of food plotters but we have over 5000 acres of cash crop lands that we farm so it will have other uses around here too. My brother-in-laws also do some excavating business during summer and winter while the crops are growing. The drill will come in handy for that application as well.
Impressions:
The drill was very easy to hook up and get leveled out to a good ground contact point.
The seed size setting is very simple and adjusting the planting rate is extremely simple with the clutch system they have now compared to the old gear/size models.
Calibration is easy and quick also. And I will add, the suggested settings in the book and on the site are pretty spot on. I will keep a notebook like everybody says, and eventually there wont be to many times when a guy will even need to calibrate unless its a straight soybean mix where seeds change size most years.
We tried the drill out over some excavated fence line with some rocks still in there, some of which were just smaller than a basketball. There were also some pieces of old box elder knuckles and crap. The drill rode right over with no problems. I kept the speed at a modest 2 MPH because it is brand new and Im not trying to beat the snot out of it. Rolled right over the old wood stuff, pulled up one rock, but rolled right over with no falter.
All in all, a very good piece of equipment on its maiden voyage. But like with all things, time will tell. FYI, if its not, Im not going to sugar coat it. It will get sent down the road and replaced with something that can handle what we throw at it. Crap equipment doesn’t sit around here too long. What I’m saying is, if I find some weak points, you will hear about it, if it turns out to be a turd, you will hear about it.
So far…So good.
I will be putting some acres on it this week, so I should have more to add by Thursday I would think.
I know these things are cost prohibitive for a lot of food plotters but we have over 5000 acres of cash crop lands that we farm so it will have other uses around here too. My brother-in-laws also do some excavating business during summer and winter while the crops are growing. The drill will come in handy for that application as well.
Impressions:
The drill was very easy to hook up and get leveled out to a good ground contact point.
The seed size setting is very simple and adjusting the planting rate is extremely simple with the clutch system they have now compared to the old gear/size models.
Calibration is easy and quick also. And I will add, the suggested settings in the book and on the site are pretty spot on. I will keep a notebook like everybody says, and eventually there wont be to many times when a guy will even need to calibrate unless its a straight soybean mix where seeds change size most years.
We tried the drill out over some excavated fence line with some rocks still in there, some of which were just smaller than a basketball. There were also some pieces of old box elder knuckles and crap. The drill rode right over with no problems. I kept the speed at a modest 2 MPH because it is brand new and Im not trying to beat the snot out of it. Rolled right over the old wood stuff, pulled up one rock, but rolled right over with no falter.
All in all, a very good piece of equipment on its maiden voyage. But like with all things, time will tell. FYI, if its not, Im not going to sugar coat it. It will get sent down the road and replaced with something that can handle what we throw at it. Crap equipment doesn’t sit around here too long. What I’m saying is, if I find some weak points, you will hear about it, if it turns out to be a turd, you will hear about it.
So far…So good.
I will be putting some acres on it this week, so I should have more to add by Thursday I would think.