J.I. Case 730 Corn Planting 

You’re a right proper row crop farmer now with that Case!!

So refreshing to see a tractor/planter with no electronic crap and a farmer with no cab and no auto steering. This is a true farmer!

Nice. You could solve your plate problems if you'd switch to plateless (finger meters). I don't know about how to adapt an IH 800 though. I bought a Deere 7100 3 point four row 40 inch planter, ran it behind my Ford 5610S for years. Mounted a 150 gallon spray tank on the front and boom brackets on back, I could spray broadcast or band pre-emerge with either a broadcast boom (which I used to belly mount under the tractor ahead of the disk for preplant incorporated sprays like Trifluralin) or banding boom to spray about 14 inch bands over the row, depending on the crop and chemical. Worked great. The old 7100 I bought came equipped with peanut "dome" plates for peanut planting. These swapped out easily with the regular plate bottoms, pull the pin and swap the bottom guts out. Planter came with the regular plate bottoms in a box. Planting cotton, grain sorghum, and soybeans I was plenty used to plates, our Cole double-inclined plate model was plate and the old Deere #18 planter used the same plates. I loved the job that the 7100 row units did in planting, but the plate meters, not so much... I thought "I've updated to modern style row units, WHY not update the meters too, since they're the heart of the planter?" SO I started looking around. I had a chance to buy a pallet box of parts that I could have set up the 7100 as a vac planter. Dealer had a pallet box with a fan, manifolds, hoses, vac gauge, and four vac meters in there-- dunno if someone ordered it for a bigger planter or to modify an older one or what, but the dealer wanted like $1,000 bucks for the box. I decided to get some Kinze brush meters for like $40 bucks each used online, and then bought some plateless hoppers and row unit hopper clutches for like $60 bucks a row. The Deere plate type drives on a 7000/7100 just slip under a pin in front and down over a thumbscrew in back, so easy-peasy to change. The row clutch bolts onto the side panel with two small bolts The plateless hoppers mount to the same brackets on the unit as the plate hoppers, and the plateless meters (either Kinze brush meters or regular finger pickup meters for corn, sweet corn, and sunflowers) slide on the bottom side of the hoppers and are secured with a thumbscrew or two. Easy peasy. Slap the hopper on, toggle the back latch, and then pop the row unit clutch in from the side by releasing it from its catch (you have to pop them open by hand and latch them back to remove the hopper before you pop the back latch on the hopper bracket). They lock themselves in by spring to turn the meter... What's nice was, the Kinze brush meters plant everything other than corn/sunflowers just like a sewing machine... if you set the population for a particular seed spacing, that's what you get. Didn't matter if I was dropping cotton seed at 52,000 seed/acre at a 3.5 inch seed spacing, or grain sorghum at 80,000 seed/acre on a 2 inch spacing, or soybeans at 140,000 seed/acre on a just under an inch spacing, that's what they dropped, all day every day. No muss, no fuss, no worn vac seals, no worn disks, no hoses popping off, no finicky vac level settings, no screaming fan and scalding hot hydraulic oil from the fan orbit motor, no worn cutoffs or seed hole cleaning wheels, no worn wipers or doubles eliminators to adjust and keep set right... just dump seed in and go. No mouse nests in the tubes plugging the fan inlet screens (which can drive you nuts trying to find the first time) and no issues with worn or balky door seals which can drop the population on a row by 14,000 seed/acre just because of the vac leak. Air and vac planters are nice, but they're finicky and problematic compared to a brush meter... if an air or vac planter loses hydraulic flow, or gets reduced flow even for a second, the seeds will drop off the disks and when you put it in the ground it won't be planting again until the meter disks make nearly a full turn, suck seeds up on the plate holes carrying them from the bottom up over the top to the seed release point over the tube at least 3/4 of a turn... which will leave a nice 10-20 foot gap on the end of your rows before it starts planting again. Finger meters and brush meters, you can lose hydraulic flow, like picking up a planter with an older tractor, and it doesn't matter... no fan to slow down and lose pressure or vacuum... the brushes or fingers hold the seed, even if you get rained out and sit for a week waiting to get back into the field... soon as you drop it, it's planting again. Swapping seed disks is easy too, just pop the hopper off, the disk is held onto the meter bearing with two thumb screws. You can dump the meters and hoppers between varieties just as easy as plates hoppers. Finger meters are about the same, just gotta turn them a revolution to drop the seed out of the fingers while it's on its side... dump the hopper and put it back and dump in the new variety... My BIL and nephew both used finger meter 7200 Deere planters for their corn. Works great and simple. Seed size or shape doesn't matter-- "plateless" seed was a boon for the seed industry and farmers, it eliminated the need to carefully grade seed for size and shape by the seed company, and the need for the farmer to match the plate cell size closely to the seed to do a passable job not getting skips and doubles. Finger pickups grab a single seed under each finger, pass over a little "trench/bump/trench" setup designed so that if two seeds are under the finger, one will almost always drop out when it passes over the bump, then a doubles eliminator brush will sweep off any extra seed trying to ride through, then the finger drops the seed through a hole in the backplate onto a seed belt, that carries it to the bottom of the meter and drops them one by one down the seed tube. Size/shape of the seed doesn't matter really. They'll handle field corn, sweet corn, popcorn, and sunflowers with ease and accuracy. The brush meters are even simpler... a vertical seed disk with grooves that stir the seed and drive them down toward the pockets along the bottom edge, a cutoff brush helps push the seed down into the pockets, then a long brush around the edge of the housing keeps the seed in the cell pockets as the disk rotates up and over the top, until the brush ends just over the seed tube-- seeds drop out of the cells and down the tube. Only one seed can fit into the cell pockets along the disk edge (unless it's a hill-drop cotton disk with a pocket built to hold 3-4 seeds for hill dropping cotton). Everything else is singulated. Works like a sewing machine-- I couldn't believe it! My BIL also bought a 15 inch 23 row Deere 1780 vac planter to plant soybeans. You can lock up every other row unit and plant 12 rows of corn on 30 inch rows, but he uses a 7200 with finger meters for corn. I have to say, I don't like the vac planter... too many things to go wrong, from air hoses popping off, to mouse nests or low fan speeds causing low vac levels and erratic or no planting because the seeds drop off the disk from insufficient vacuum... or low hydraulic flow on older tractors causing seed to fall off when you raise the planter to turn around on the field end. Worn seed disks or wipers or seals on the meter doors, etc. all cause erratic planting or low planting rates on that row... gotta set the seed doubles eliminators in the meter with a little lever depending on seed type/size/rate and the seed disk type... gotta set the vac level by speeding up or slowing down the orbit motor driving the screaming fan, transmission oil gets scalding hot in the tractor rear end running the fan orbit motors, not good for the tractor. The vac planter suck air into the meters from around/under the hopper, so they eat a lot of dust and dirt being sucked in coming off the row unit gauge wheels and openers and row cleaners and stuff... causes the plastic seed disk and rubber seals and plastic wiper on back of the disk to wear badly, despite using graphite to lube everything. He actually uses a talc/graphite mix seems to work best for him... makes the seed flow and lubes the meter parts. I think you'd be amazed at what a finger meter would do for your corn planting accuracy, particularly in sweet corn with its wrinkled raisin seeds... Sweet corn seed isn't cheap, so the improvement would pay for itself. Finger meters are easy to find used and can easily be kept in tip-top shape, not much to go wrong and any dealer usually has a test stand to run them every couple three years to make sure they're working great. Shoup catalog has any parts you'd ever need for them.

Love the deep, throaty sound of that old Case 730.

Interesting video. I certainly understand the goal of having large uniform ears that market well.

Wonderful video Jacob only thing missing is Dad needs a nice straw hat to keep him cool .

Perfect old tractor for the job, the Case combo is just awesome, but I still love the blue boys on the job. Give us a quick up date how that field looks now

The gps is workin good, easy to see.

Good video.

👍👌❤🇨🇦, gr8 videos Jacob as always

Nice looking old tractor doing a fine job of it.

Nice 730 👍👍

love the 730!!

❤ nice set-up Jacob

How is the 2+2 doing I can't wait to see it back out

I had a case ih in the 90s that planted the best sweet corn ever

Sweet

Great awesome video Jacob. Way too late for planting

Nice video

I have the identical 730. But it's a diesel

That goose seems rather disturbed by something...

Had a neighbor with a 730 Caseomatic. Nice driving tractor, but that torque converter drive wasn't great. Slow to work until warmed up, super hungry on gas, and though it allowed the smallish tractor to pull a 4 bottom plow in hills, when tough going it automatically would slow down due to slippage in converter. the 830 diesel Comfort King with standard trans was the better machine by far. Hydraulics on those Case's wasn't all that great.

Will you make it to farm science review this year?

Corn planting on june 23 …. Why so late to the party?… never mind it’s sweet corn lol

Interesting

Does anyone know what Ford and Deere made to compete with this 730?

A drone might be a good way to help get your videos?