dannyredfan Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 I bought a cyclo planter years ago. Plant small lots. It's kinda a pain hooking and unhooking the pump. It's a 8 row end transport. Why don't they have a place to mount it on the planter? Or have quick connections so you can leave pump on the tractor ? Maybe iam missing a peace or someone changed it in the past. Just aggravating 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absent Minded Farmer Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 Probably don't mount it on the frame to keep the turning radius tight. No drive line chatter that way. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawleigh99 Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 I imagine the quick connects may cause a restriction maybe?? Try them and find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bauerj Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 The big 540 pump stayed mounted on my 5140. I simply used a pair of male and female pioneer couplers on the pump and planter. The couplers were on 18 inch hoses on the pump so I could hook them up so the inside of the couplers stayed sort of clean. Worked well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TractormanMike.mb Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 What tractor do you plant with and does it have enough hydraulic capacity to run the planter off the remotes. Once you make the switch you will never look back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyredfan Posted June 2 Author Share Posted June 2 Was using a 806. This year the 5488. I know it will. But only has two remotes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjf711 Posted June 2 Share Posted June 2 3 hours ago, dannyredfan said: I bought a cyclo planter years ago. Plant small lots. It's kinda a pain hooking and unhooking the pump. It's a 8 row end transport. Why don't they have a place to mount it on the planter? Or have quick connections so you can leave pump on the tractor ? Maybe iam missing a peace or someone changed it in the past. Just aggravating 🙄 Ours has a little slot the pump slides in on the hitch when unhooking. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TractormanMike.mb Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 Ill elaborate more from my earlier post. The 800 cyclo I planted with originally had the big 540 pump. The inner splined coupled on the pump wore out and it was cheaper to replace it with a 1000 rpm pump, the one with the long cylindrical reservoir on the back of the pump. Those pumps always seemed to vibrate and shake. We ended up with two of them just so we would have a spare and usually had to switch at some point during the season. Those pumps got so worn out that we went with another pump, I think it was from a 1200 series planter, that needed a separate reservoir. That pump worked better but it would still wear the splines on both the pump coupler and the tractor pto shaft. It didn't matter how tight I had the pinch bolt tightened. I even made a bracket to support the pump from the draw bar support but that made it harder and took more time to switch to end wise transport. The last few years I ran that planter we were pulling it with a 4650. I used the pto pump for the first couple years but by now that pump was pushing ten years old and I was having a hard time getting enough out put, especially towards the afternoon when things got good and warmed up. I usually had to close the bypass valve to put full flow to the planter and even then would have just enough air pressure to plant. I knew a 4650 has enough hydraulic capacity to run that planter so finally when I was setting it up one spring I removed the pump and extended the pressure hose to reach one of the remotes. I returned the oil through a case drain I made by utilizing a plug at the rear of the tractor. I put a female pioneer fitting on the planter side of the return hose so I could couple the hoses together for storage or when going to transport. From the first day I knew that I should have ran it direct long ago. I could run the tractor at 1300 engine rpms and the planter would hold steady pressure all day. Need more rpms for climbing a hill or a tough spot, it wouldn't effect the planter one bit. I would the planter all day and I never had a problem with the hydraulic oil getting too hot. These are my recollections of my experiences, hope it helps. The last couple years I ran that planter I was planting over 1000 acres of corn with it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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