Great Plains PT8030 V1012 Operator Manual - Manual (Page 2)

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PT6030 and PT8030 Pull-Type Planter 401-032M 10/10/12 Great Plains Mfg., Inc.
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Table of Contents
Important Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Safety Notations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Safety Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Personal Safety Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Safety Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Owner Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Section 1 Assembly and Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Planter Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Marker Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Section 2 Planter Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Initial Preparation of the Planter. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Tractor Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Tire Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Leveling the Planter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Transporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Rephasing the Hydraulic System . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Planting Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Contact Drive Wheel Spring Adjustment . . . . . . 16
Tire Scraper (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Ridge Planting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Marker Hydraulics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Marker Transporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Liquid Fertilizer Attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Section 3 Row Unit Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Finger Pickup Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Meter Clutches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Seed Hopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chemical Hopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Recalibrating Insecticide/Herbicide Meter . . . . . 22
Section 4 Adjustments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Marker Disk Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Seed and Chemical Meter Drive Adjustments . . 23
Depth Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Down Force Row . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Row Unit Mounted Coulter Adjustment . . . . . . . 25
1 x 12 Closing Wheel Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . 25
Closing Disk Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Seed Lok. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Liquid Fertilizer Adjustments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Section 5 Adjusting Planting Rates. . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Planting Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Drive Wheel Slippage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Adjusting Granular Chemical Rates . . . . . . . . . . 29
Liquid Fertilizer Attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Planting Rates for Finger Pickup Corn Meters . . 30
Planting Rates for Brush Meters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Granular Chemical Rate Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Insecticide/Herbicide Application Rates . . . . . . . 34
Liquid Fertilizer Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Dry Fertilizer Attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Section 6 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Section 7 Maintenance and Lubrication . . . . . . . . 45
Install Cylinder Stops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Replacing Drill Shaft Pins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Fasteners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Finger Pickup Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Spreader and Scraper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Gauge Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Outside Scrapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Shear Pins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Chain Tension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Cleaning Insecticide and/or Herbicide Hoppers . 50
Cleaning Liquid Fertilizer Tanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Squeeze Pumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Marker Breakaway Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Lubrication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Section 8 Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Section 9 Specifications and Capacities . . . . . . . 60
Section 10 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Tire Inflation Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Torque Values Chart for Common Bolt Sizes . . . 62
Metric Conversion Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63