John Deere 7100 Planter

[green duck]

I have recently acquired a JD 7100 planter. It is a 12 row unit. It seems to be in pretty good shape, mostly only needing a few bearings and tension springs.

It definitely needs a good cleaning and repainting.

I plan to convert the unit into several 1 and 2 row planters to sell for gardens and food plots. As you know the JD 7100 is different from the JD 71 flex as the 71 is ground driven by the rear compact wheel. The 7100 is driven by a separate ground wheel that drives several units with a system of chains and sprockets.

I am wondering if anybody on here knows of a better way to run the 7100 so that it is more like the 71 and all one unit that operates itself.

I have seen where others online sell the 7100 as a 2 row unit with the separate ground wheel between the 2 planters. I only have 2 separate ground wheels and 12 planters, so I was looking for a better way to do this than buying additional ground wheels.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks

 

[dusty3030]

Scrounge up some more drive wheel assemblies is the easiest.
If you are good at fabbing you might can just buy the sprockets and bearings and such and fab up some arms, but that really is the best way I can think of.

 

[flusher]

I have recently acquired a JD 7100 planter. It is a 12 row unit. It seems to be in pretty good shape, mostly only needing a few bearings and tension springs.

It definitely needs a good cleaning and repainting.

I plan to convert the unit into several 1 and 2 row planters to sell for gardens and food plots. As you know the JD 7100 is different from the JD 71 flex as the 71 is ground driven by the rear compact wheel. The 7100 is driven by a separate ground wheel that drives several units with a system of chains and sprockets.

I am wondering if anybody on here knows of a better way to run the 7100 so that it is more like the 71 and all one unit that operates itself.

I have seen where others online sell the 7100 as a 2 row unit with the separate ground wheel between the 2 planters. I only have 2 separate ground wheels and 12 planters, so I was looking for a better way to do this than buying additional ground wheels.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks

12V DC motor, variable speed. If you're planning to sell your 2-row planters to the food plot crowd, figure many of those potential buyers will have ATVs with 12V DC outlets on the back to run various implements.