Swinging New Planter Toolbar

Swinging New Planter Toolbar PLANTING EQUIPMENT Planters 6-6-1 Biggest attention getter at farm shows this fall is the amazing new "swinging" planter and implement transport system introduced by Kinze Manufacturing, Williamsburg, Iowa. "It'll make conventional front or rear folding toolbars obsolete," predicts Jon Kinzenbau, president of Kinze Mfg. and inventor of his company's revolutionary K-ln-Line system that swings rather than folds planters and other wide equipment for transport. Just about everything you've ever wanted in a corn-soybean planter is wrapped up in Kinzenbau's new "swinger". Without leaving the tractor seat, the driver can swing the planter ùincluding the biggest model which plants 24 rows of corn (30 in. spacing) or up to 49 rows of beans (15 in. spacing) -- to a narrow 12 1/2 ft. for transport. The entire operation ù folding or unfolding -- takes less than a minute. What's more, the planter's double frame design, combined with the swinging concept for transport, allows you to carry fertilizer tanks (dry or liquid) and application equipment right on the planter. Or, you can mount planter units behind, and hang heavy tillage equipment up front for a once-over, till-plant operation. Kinze has a patent pending on his "break-through" toolbar which not only swings but operates at a fixed height and has multi-purpose application to a wide variety of planting and tilling equipment. "We think it will revolutionize the way planters, discs, field cultivators, and other wide implements are designed and built," Kinze told FARM SHOW. Initially, Kinze Mfg. is offering the new concept as a corn-soybean planter. The new K-In-Line planter, now in production for the 1983 planting season, will be available in the following models: 8, 12 or 16 row narrow (30 in. spacing) or wide (36 to 40 in. spacing) built in two sections; an 18 row narrow built in three sections; and a 24 row narrow built in three sections. On all models, whether two or three sections ù individual sections can be raised or lowered independently, which makes even the widest unit able to selectively plant point rows. And because individual sections swing into line for transport, transport width is no more than the width of the widest section. "To fold for transport, the operator simply hits a hydraulic lever and heads for the gate. The planter sections automatically swing into the in-line transport configuration," explains Kinzenbau. "When he gets to the next field, he simply backs up the tractor and the sections automatically swing into field position. With 30 minutes of practice, your wife or older child can maneuver the widest K-In-Line rig into road or field position in less than a minute." Kinze Mfg. is offering the K-In-Line planters with Kinze-built row units. They're a virtual carbon copy of Deere's Max-Emerge planter units which Kinze Mfg. is producing under a special licensing agreement. For more information, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Kinze Manufacturing, I-80 at Exit 216, Williamsburg, Iowa 52361 (ph 319 668-1300).

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