Planting a Little Sweet Corn using the Covington Planter
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- Опубліковано 16 гру 2024
- I was doing the Equipment shuffle today around the farm for a new Project and I had to move the planter so. I decided to use it to plant a little Sweet corn while it was hooked up.
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I need to get one of these for next season.
Thay are nice Thanks for Watching
Brian, I’ve thought a time or two about picking me up an old planter, but even old ones are pricy! I use a walk behind now, but my garden isn’t quite as big as yours. I have 7 rows of Peaches & Cream variety sweet corn coming up now. My rows are maybe 70’ long. I’ll look into one of these Covington’s, but just looking at the video of it tells me they are far from free lol
Look for a used one, I ended up picking this one up offfline and having it shipped to me from a long way away. It was new old stock they said. There is not much to be wrong with them unless they are rusted out from being outside. Very few bearings in them and still it was the cheapest planter at the timeI could find that was simple to maintain, cole is the next best thing. Thanks for Watching
Excellent video, I'm hoping to ship some Covington planters to Africa as they seem incredibly simple to assemble and operate, your comments on the size of the seed to the plate were interesting, I keep looking for a video on setting the fertilizer rate as in Africa fertilizer is expensive and I want to encourage the small farmers to go for mechanical planting rather than by hand.
The Size seeds really do matter on which plate you use. As far as the Fertilizer, there is not much way to regulate it...Too Simple would be a good word in that case...it would help if you could modify one of the wheels that the striker clicks on and remove some of the pegs that the striker hits to reduce the vibration causing less fertilize to fall out...if that makes any sinse. it just clicks and vibrates all the time and puts fertilize in the row really good. but if i am planting pumpkins and they are spaces 8ft apart i fertilize all 8 feet.......hope that helps
@@ABMFARM Thank you for replying, it was watching the fertilizer dribbling off the plate that caught my eye.
Covington makes a good planter, but I 100% agree that knocking sound is really obnoxious!!!!
I agree completely, it is the fertilize distributor simple design but really annoying. I did some more planting without fertilizer and i just moved the rod that strikes the wheel and it was quiet as a mouse while planting but again i fertilized by broadcasting the entire field when i planted that time. thanks for watching
Did you ever use the "cotton can" on the planter? Will it plant mustard and turnips?
No I have never used the "Cotton Can" on the planter. and as far as planting mustard and turnips the way it is. I have never planted those either, I would have to research and see if they make a seed plate even small enough to use in the planter to plant mustard and turnips. I would imagine that those seed are so small, and the planter being gravity fed, that it would not do very well with them. But, after a quick search of the "cotton can" as you call it, it may allow you to plant those small seeds, I just do not have that attachment.