May 28, 2019 | Air Drills, Newsletters
Many of you in North America are fighting mud, and might find it difficult to contemplate needing more frame weight at the moment. But we’ve been down this road before—when it stops raining and gets sunny & hot, the soil goes from too soft to too hard in a matter...
May 22, 2019 | Air Drills, Newsletters
If you have a JD drill where the rear transport wheel frame is held together as shown in the photo, you probably are constantly replacing broken bolts. We’ve found that using a pair of shorter bolts instead of a single long bolt in those spots pretty much eliminates...
May 26, 2017 | Air Drills, JD 50/60/90/Pro-series drills, Newsletters
by Matt Hagny Quite a few people have trouble with oil overheating on their air drills (and even if it’s not overheating to the extent of shutting down the tractor, high temps break down hydraulic oil faster, and shorten the life of pumps, seals, etc — you...
Apr 19, 2016 | Air Drills, JD 50/60/90/Pro-series drills, Newsletters
by Matt Hagny Many of you know that I view these drills as being superior to many others on the market because of: 1) depth gauging alongside the blade, 2) an in-furrow seed-lock wheel. Yet there are plenty of shortcomings with these drills, and Exapta has been busy...
Feb 24, 2016 | Air Drills, Newsletters
by Matt Hagny (with Jock Baker) Exapta has always focused on the soil-engaging components of planter & grain drill openers in no-till seedbeds. That has been the weakest link. Now that we’re getting a handle on some of those shortcomings, we can free up a little...
