2019 Planting: Zells 214ft Airseeder (worlds largest planter) 

I bet anyone would lol

With only 600HP pulling, it wouldn't go very fast in their soil conditions. To make that unit productive in US soil conditions, you'd need at least 1,000 HP. Even then, it is only 500HP per 100' of seeder. That soil looks really light and dried out. Easy to pull there. And Welker doesn't actually farm that much land.

@@SomeTechGuy666 it acctually looks like it might have been re-engined, all the other photos I've seen of a DP600 look shorter in the nose and have a single stack, and from what I'm reading on forums and news articles he's been running tandem master/slave JD9T's since 2011, and the baldwin is retired

@@cleetusmacfarland9453 He actually retired the John Deere 9400t's for now and it looks like he re-powered the Baldwin. Perhaps with a QST30 Cummins? Not exactly sure but twin stacks and air cleaners tells me V12.

Welkers do not farm much when considering there are farms in the US and Canada that produce over 50,000 acres. Welkers produce what? 5,000 acres? which is average for their area.

EU4 Boy7 driving that thing would be a nightmare

@@andrewlund5399 driving it not so much. you get used to it and i think ur not realizing they are in a very open space. not like they are taking this to town or in traffic. i would like to see how they move it. my biggest fear is changing all the points when they wear out lol.

NOO NOPE they fold it in the Long bar from the traktor and out to the seeder

you not not talking tubes per day but cases per day. lol. bring a milwaukee with at lest 2 9.0 ah batteries.

My uncle's farm installed automatic systems on their big gear. You pretty much just press the button every few hours and keep the tub full of grease.

it's not a field it's a paddock .[aussie dryland .you can have "field " for irrigation ] and i love being pedantic . we do love the yanks but don't want to be totally swamped by their cultural imperialism .

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@@nordins157 hoi

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DingleZilla looks like Australia so probably about right haha.

The people repenting my neighbours land run double carts so they can put fertilizer down too. Things loud af sounds like a bomb siren

But the cards are relativly smal tho

@@danielleheiget4517 p

Autosteer sure does help. Lol

I remember seeing Baldwin on the prince Phillip design awards; an adjunct to the series, THE INVENTORS on ABC and man they really are tractors. One bloke at Moura had six. I'd like to know what other history you have on the iconic company. There's also Waltana; that built robust AUSTRALIAN 4wd tractors and Upton that finished with huge hp 2wd tractors. All mostly killed by stupid import tariffs. There's a real story here that needs telling.

It already is

@@mikey9710 really? for console or pc only?

Pc only

And 17 for gamers like me!

@@felixolauzzon it's in 17 as well but again it's for PC only :)

I SUBCRIBED N DINGED BELL FOR NEW VIDS ...again why does my caps still.........

This is not a row crop. Or a planter. It's a air drill for small grains etc.

As an Aussie , they are called Air Seeders , and if it wasn't for guidance , there would be plenty of character

When I said row cropping I meant that the crop is in rows, I wasn’t referring to the planter/air drill. I also meant that farming equipment has changed a lot. That’s just what we call that type of farming around where I live. Air drills weren’t around when I was a kid. Thanks for your comment. The biggest planter I ever used was a 12 row. The biggest disk I ever pulled was 23 foot.

bobby harvill what about Amy Schumer?

Think that up all by yourself or did ya?

That’s funny I don’t care who you are lol

You don't do that when your planting?

Maybe fuel it on the move like the Air Force does it’s Fighters but with a tanker’copter

Thanks Dale, Still very patchy around the place but better than nothing!

@@TarrawingeeFarm if I was smart I could work out 214 ft to 1 hectare per minute to work out ground speed. But it's a lot easier just to ask. What is your ground speed? By the way I must have watched the other zells air seeder video 10 times. It blows my mind.

@@paulvalkenburg100 Have to be 7 mph to get 1 Ha/minute

@@paulvalkenburg100 9.25km/hr it works out to be.

@@Lordy29 cheers 👍

it is dont comment unlese you check first www.modsls17.com/zells-214ft-sowing-rig-v1-3-1-0-for-fs17/?fbclid=IwAR2Qm0vYIWU8fofpi5LnReJbsa5fW3CEGBLSgPMBP5e3ftzWQ0-agz8YFGo

@@222-w2p that's FS17 where up to FS19 now.

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Sure would. The Balwin tractor must have sat nav fitted to control accurate bout width matching. Driver is way too far away to see the end of the machine. In addition to the volume of oil flow required to lift the unit, the volume of air for those two seeder hoppers must also be pretty substantial. As big as the tractor is, it's certainly got its work cut out. Would be interesting to find out how an empty hopper or blocked distribution head is flagged up to the driver.

What make is it? Big Bud??

@@brianpalenske695 Baldwin

Cummins kta 19 from factory?

@brianpabst3352 unsure bro mate did a session for them so a little unsure on the details. It's a weapon though

tractors.fandom.com/wiki/Baldwin

I can tell you what I know. The air seeders are simplicity. The planter is a multi farming systems (Banana farming) frame but I'm not sure what row units.

@@bradconway5611 looks like jankee tynes/presswheels

It looks like moondust. No vegetation no nothing just very light pulverized soil.Wind storms and heavy rains must be a nightmare

@@billrobertson1507 Bill this paddock/field has been in fallow ready for cropping. It's a common practice to have your paddock weed free, and even ploughed in the spring so it's ready to go for Autumn sowing.

That seems like a lot more work than using a auger or conveyor to load the hoppers on flex drills like these

Um no… that’s for very special seed types(lentils being one) dumping in with auger faster always will be

Blockage monitors. We use dicky John ones on ours.

not so much with years of drought

Except for trees, can't see them lasting.?

Fun fact, Big bud is actually a series of real tractors made since 1968 by the Northern Manufacturing Company in America. The one in the video is made by the company Baldwin Engineering. They made these tractors from 1979 to 1990. While very similar to the Big Buds there were not as powerful or big.

@@PvtHaggard which is weird seeing as farms in america are a lot smaller

@@brocksinclair66 There are many large farms here, but most of the time big equipment is used A) Because we can (we don't have width restrictions here either) and B) Planting or tillage windows. Many, many prarie monster articulating tractors were born here and several brands started when some farmers built homemade machines, just like they did down under.

No0dLz yield in a good year around there is about 2-3ton per ha and last year in that area some places were lucky to get 1ton an ha.

Yes,go into the W.A. wheatbelt and ask around

Its near moree nsw not in WA

Not in WA its at Moree west of narrabri

This machine not designed to be folded . Dismantled a little , and end towed

Wasn't sure if that was Swanhill way or between st George an Moree. That lovely black clay. My wallet says that country looks best with hoggets an beef covering it.

@@brucerae5522 I believe Collarenebri

The tractor is a Baldwin 600, so unless they have modified it around 600hp.

Do they put a bit of fert down with the seed? Or ahead of the drill? Or not at all?

Eric, does this seeder transport in 2 sections, and in an endways fashion?

Ivan Moreau I used to drive headers for contractors in that area about 25 years ago and fert was hardly used. They had been cropping for a lot of years by then. It is a vast flood plain of the Darling River system and very deep alluvial soils. Good years they can grow 6 tonnes/ha but in a drought zero. I’m from southern Australia where we use lots of fert and didn’t believe it but a quick look in their airseeder that had wheat in both bins proved the point.

Its probably running 1000hp or so

Need a disk drill for those speeds, or at least I've heard.

hp of the tractor doesn’t regulate the speed that you can seed, the implement determines that

Interesting! but why would that type of seeder need to run slow? I know direct seeding takes a lot of force which is why I assumed power was the problem. But the whole rig was custom made for them so why not plan to run it faster and size all of the necessary components larger?

Will Kenly i’m not sure mate

@@WillKenly Normally the speed limitation while seeding has multiple reasons. First being wear and tear of the parts in the ground, the faster you go the more friction you have. That means more heat that softens the materials, which increases wear. Next thing is seeding depth, which is best if it's constant, at higher speeds there is less time to adapt to changing ground. And at higher speed the force pushing against the seeder in the ground is higher, and due to stone safety mechanisms(don't know the english word) , that impacts seeding depth as well. And the force on the connecting beam between the seeder and tractor is higher as well, which is probably pretty high as is. So, all in all, going faster might look faster, but I think due to yield and maintenance cost, its more efficient to go slower. Edit : And I forgot the most obvious reason to not upgrade the engine, you probably wouldn't get the power to the ground. Either the transmission will fail or the tires will spin.

Dane Pittman baldwin is a similar sort of thing to a big bud in the sence that it just started with a bloke who wanted some high horsepower iron so he built one and it grew from there

Big bud shouldn't really be in the description as it may confuse some. Baldwin was just an Australian built tractor, I'm pretty sure Baldwin was mostly involved in earthmoving gear, but did build tractors for a time while there was a demand for large powerful tractors that big brand names didn't build. Other Australian built tractors built in similar Times was Waltanna an Upton.

Great video. That tractor has been really looked after or very well restored to look like that. Also GPS wasn’t around then so a few upgrades too. Baldwin was (or is?) a railway engine manufacturer so they had experience with building heavy machinery. In the late 1970’s & 80’s large scale farming in Australia expanded and there was a need for big horsepower tractors and big equipment. They weren’t available from the usual brands at machinery dealers then. At the time blade plowing was one of the methods used and required heavy duty high horsepower tractors. I don’t know the numbers but there wouldn’t have been many of these built. I remember seeing a Baldwin on display at Ag-Quip near Gunnedah in the 80’s.

​@@landlifem5872 And 'Aussie Farmer's' like a few other's in certain Countries 'don't receive any Government subsidies' so do to if correct are our farm equipment manufactures,.between the disastrous drought years of recently its a fight for their survival in regional Australia.

It folds up onto itself for transport.

@@stevenjohnson7180 That would be a sight to see to have all that fold up. I thought my 50 foot field cultivator was wide. Thanks

Pretty sure the pull swings around 90degreese for an end tow. Did you notice how it was castors all round and cables

The pull bar folds in and the pull from one end multifarmingsystems.com.au/

@@landlifem5872 That's what I thought. Thanks

As far as I know the biggest combine is capable of a 45ft Draper Header.

@@getriebesand2195 I heard some company is trying to make a 60 foot but that's the biggest I know of

Bc the government won't allow them to remove it

Illegal

@@lynwessel2471 amazing one tree in 1000 hectares Thanks for the answer

Cummins KTA 1150

@@timothylessing4774 So if they still had the KTA 1150 why do they have 2 air cleaners and 2 exhaust stacks? Plus KTA's don't put out enough to pull that rig properly unless they are turned up to 750 which drastically shortens their life in severe service applications. Are you positive it is a KTA yet?

Probably would fix it with a splice

And WHY would it burst? They're not running under full pressure.

Henry A 90k

Not with this slow filling method. They should use a lifting trailer.

About 60 hectares or 148 acres per hour

Grain

It’s a Baldwin, not a Big Bud.

And only one Big Bud only made one 747. Of course, its not in Australia. This is a Baldwin Tractor.

Must be a nightmare with 2 carts aye

Michael C it’s all hydraulic sir. No farms no food. Let me work let me live.

Moree has two hills, that’s where it stops being moree