Great Plains 2SNG30 Material Rate - Manual (Page 2)

202-578B 12/01/2010
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Introduction ................................................................ 1
Products Covered ........................................................ 1
Document Family ......................................................... 1
Setting Planting Rate ................................................... 1
Main Seed Box Planting ............................................ 2
Main Seed Box Rate .................................................... 2
Setting Drive Type ................................................... 2
Changing Double Sprocket .................................. 3
Changing Jackshaft Sprocket .............................. 3
Main Seed Box Rate Handle.................................... 4
Position Seed Cup Doors......................................... 4
Checking Main Seed Box Rate .................................... 5
Rate Charts, Main Seed Box ....................................... 7
Alfalfa or Rape ..................................................... 7
Barley ................................................................... 7
Buckwheat............................................................ 7
Buffalograss (1 of 4)............................................. 7
Flax or Sudan....................................................... 8
Millet..................................................................... 8
Milo....................................................................... 8
Oats or Safflower ................................................. 8
Peas ..................................................................... 8
Pinto Beans.......................................................... 8
Rice, Short Grain (1 of 2) ..................................... 9
Rice, Long Grain (1 of 2)...................................... 9
Rye....................................................................... 9
Soybeans (1 of 3)................................................. 9
Sunflower ........................................................... 10
Wheat (1 of 2) .................................................... 10
Wheatgrass ........................................................ 10
Smalls Seeds Box Planting .................................... 11
Small Seeds Box Rate............................................... 11
Small Seeds Drive Type ........................................ 11
Changing Double Sprocket ................................ 12
Changing Jackshaft Sprocket ............................ 12
Changing Jackshaft Sprocket ............................ 12
Checking Small Seeds Box Rate............................... 13
Rate Charts, Small Seeds Box .................................. 15
Alfalfa, Red Alsike, Crimson Clover ................... 15
Kentucky Bluegrass,
Fescue, Annual Rye Grass ............................ 15
Bermuda, Red Top, Lespedeza Unhulled,
Sercia, Sand, Weeping Love Grass............... 15
Red & Sweet Clover, Lespedeza Hulled............ 15
Orchard Grass ................................................... 15
Millet, Reed Canary ........................................... 15
Ladino Clover, Canary Grass,
Timothy, Canola............................................. 16
Birdsfoot, Trefoil, Sudan .................................... 16
Native Grass Planting ............................................. 17
Series II Native Grass Calibration ............................. 17
Native Grass Calibration Formulas/Example......... 20
Native Grass Box Cup Rates..................................... 21
Model 2SNG24 (24-foot)........................................ 21
Model 2SNG30 (30-foot)........................................ 21
Great Plains Graphite Lubricant: ....................... 21
Seeding Brome Grass
with Native Grass Box ........................................... 22
Brome Native Grass Rates .................................... 24
7.5in Spacing: Model 2SNG24 or 2SNG30 ....... 24
10in Spacing: Model 2SNG24 or 2SNG30 ........ 24