Great Plains 2N-3020 Operator Manual - Manual (Page 2)

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Table of Contents
2N-2420 and 2N-3020 Two-Section Folding No-Till Drill 196-164M-A 2/28/08
Important Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Safety Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Description of Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Intended Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Owner Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Section 1 Drill Preparation and Setup . . . . . . . . . . 10
Prestart Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Hitch Height Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing Drill Control Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Bleeding Hydraulic Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Field-Lift Hydraulics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Transport-Lock Hydraulics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Raise-To-Fold Hydraulics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Fold Hydraulics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Marker Hydraulics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Frame Leveling Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Aligning Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 2 Operating Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Prestart Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Tractor Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Recommended Minimum Tractor Size . . . . . 15
Minimum Towing Vehicle Weight . . . . . . . . . . 15
Hydraulics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Safety Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Hitching Tractor to Drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Operating Control Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Folding the Drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Folding Harrow Attachment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Unfolding the Drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Lifting the Drill in the Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Field Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Opener Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Marker Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Shaft Monitor Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Electric Clutch Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Transporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Parking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Section 3 Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
No-Till Seeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Coulter Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Hydraulic Depth Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Coulter Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Individual Coulters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Opener Adjustments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Depth-Gauging Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Down-Pressure Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Press Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Setting the Seeding Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.
Small Seeds Attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Seed Rate Charts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Small Seeds Attachment Seed Rate Charts . . . 27
Gauge-Wheel Drive Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Disk Scraper Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Leveling Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Marker Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Marker Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Disk Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Folding Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Coulter Tines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Seed-Lok . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Section 4 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Section 5 Maintenance and Lubrication . . . . . . . . 34
General Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Lubrication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Section 6 Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Coulter Tines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Weight Brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Small Seeds Attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Shaft Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Electric Clutches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Rear Mount Boom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Seed Box Agitator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Seed-Lok‚ Firming Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Seed-Cup Plugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Section 7 Specifications and Capacities . . . . . . . 43
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Tire Inflation Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Torque Values Chart for Common Bolt Sizes . . . 44
Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45