How does The Firminator control planting depth?
There are 2 fundamental ways to plant seed with Firminator and FirmiSeeder. When planting small seeds that need to be placed within the top quarter inch of soil, it is recommended to disk the soil thoroughly through selected disk angles and disk depth. Then prior to seeding, the unit should be tilted back through adjusting the top link so that the disks are not contacting the soil. This will allow only the cultipackers to operate and a pass across the field to firm up the seed bed prior to seeding can be performed. Then by simply engaging the metering system a final seeding pass will precisely drop the seed onto the firm seed bed while the cultipackers press the seed into the soil for perfect seed placement. The second method for larger seed is to disk thoroughly as mentioned above, then by moving the disk beams back to a more conservative angle (10-15 degrees) a final pass which allows you to do a final disking which is not “rolling” soil, but is fine-cutting and leveling meanwhile th
