Opinions Needed on Bourgault Air Seeders

Years ago I pulled a 7950 behind a 8810, so a 6550 won't be any issue at all. 8800 might have a lighter front hitch, that would be something to look for. The A-frame hitch is what you want.

If you are looking for a 6550 I have the mintiest 6550 around with X20, duals, etc. I'm looking to go to a 700-950 bushel cart again if possible. The tank market is a bit picked over right now though...

Oh goodie!! Looks like we have a selling war going on! Buyers market!! lol Might go look at a tank close to home here, an '07 for 45,000, not sure what to expect for that price. Are the metering drives pretty bullet proof? We have just had the old mechanical drives with sprockets, like that for long term reliability as we tend to keep stuff for close to forever. The simplicity is also what keeps us in the c shank drills. Just did the bushings on the 8810 last year and it's literally like new again. Disks in our soil on a damp or wet year is a nightmare.

That 6550 at Shoal Lake?  If I had a tractor that could run those fans I would have been interested too.  I wonder why it's so much cheaper it doesn't look bad in photos.

What size cart are u pulling right now? 6550 is a nice cart. Haven’t had any transmission issues on our 6550 but did have to pull one on the 5440 we had before that. When we ran a 8810 we had a 3 inch btt opener on the 10 inch spacing. Worked really well for swathing but we were going one pass. Can see why u wouldn’t want to go that route if your putting on fertilizer ahead but would be an option to help with swathing.

I noticed the tank in Shoal Lake doesn't have the bag lift. Not sure what you use now but I wouldn't be without the bag lift on our 6450. Not just for canola but for every time we're calibrating it's nice for taking the boxes back up.

You can't imagine how badly I would love to have a set up like yours. Just not in the cards. It's always nice to see and hear what other guys farm with, at times it gets a bit depressing when I look at what we have compared to others, but then I think I still have it pretty good, our stuff is older but in nice shape. The best part of our farm is also part of the reason money is always a bit tight, there are three families making a living off our farm, mine, my brothers, and my parents still, although they are pretty much retired, I wouldn't want to change this arrangement for anything. Someday I might have all that I want for machinery, but that will likely be the same time our kids won't let me run the new stuff! "Here dad, how 'bout you run this old thing for the day?" lol

Ya it's funny how one thing can work so well for one farm but be a complete disaster for another. Every soil type sure requires a different approach. Our land here isn't all that light, we're in a pocket where a good chunk of our land is class B, some C, and a few hundred acres of D, and it all needs to be handled a little different. We have a bout a foot to a foot and a half of topsoil, then really heavy dense clay right below it, that's why we can't handle too much rain, almost nothing seeps away. A wet year devastates our heavy land when the poorer land will out perform it. Last year our best barley crop we had after the 15 inch rain was on a quarter with D land because it was able to soak the excess away after with almost nothing drowned out. We tried MRB for a few years (a few years too many) and they just don't work. It's almost never dry here in the spring, and between the banders being gummed up and plugged with dirt and the furrow not closing back in allowing too much gassing off, they are now piled nicely beside our barn. A neighbor was certain he wanted them for his drill, I kept pointing out their faults but he was persistant, I'm glad that I realized his drill was 8 inch spacing and ours were for 10 inch. They use liquid so the gassing off wouldn't be an issue, but the stopping every round to get the disks turning again would have made me a bad neighbor! God, every time I think back about using those things gives me a headache!