Deere B drill.. Your thoughts

[Cavjock22]

gentlemen, I have the opportunity to purchase a used barn stored drill for approximately $500.. it's either a 10 foot or 12 foot model. Looks to be in decent condition. it was stored inside a barn and a fluted design. sealed boxes show no corrosion. What I'm being told is that means it has various adjustments and very easy to adjust. My goal for this attachment would be winter deer food plots and summer early fall sunflower plots. I have a kubota 63 horse tractor. My plan is to offset disc first and then use the drill. Please share your comments both good and bad. Am i going down the right road? Is this a good price for the drill?

 

[flusher]

gentlemen, I have the opportunity to purchase a used barn stored drill for approximately $500.. it's either a 10 foot or 12 foot model. Looks to be in decent condition. it was stored inside a barn and a fluted design. sealed boxes show no corrosion. What I'm being told is that means it has various adjustments and very easy to adjust. My goal for this attachment would be winter deer food plots and summer early fall sunflower plots. I have a kubota 63 horse tractor. My plan is to offset disc first and then use the drill. Please share your comments both good and bad. Am i going down the right road? Is this a good price for the drill?

Price for that drill seems OK considering it's pretty good condition.

I paid $270 in 2006 for two old steel wheel Minneapolis Moline P3-6 drills (10 ft wide, 20 drops, single disc openers, with the additional boxes for small seeds). Used parts from both to make one working drill and one lawn ornament.

Pulled it with my 2008 Mahindra 5525 (overkill) and used it to plant about 7 acres of Kanota oats.



Good luck

 

[Cavjock22]

Price for that drill seems OK considering it's pretty good condition.

I paid $270 in 2006 for two old steel wheel Minneapolis Moline P3-6 drills (10 ft wide, 20 drops, single disc openers, with the additional boxes for small seeds). Used parts from both to make one working drill and one lawn ornament.

It's my understanding that single disk openers are very hard to adjust to diff size seeds. Is that correct?

Pulled it with my 2008 Mahindra 5525 (overkill) and used it to plant about 7 acres of Kanota oats.

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Good luck

It's my understanding that single disk openers are very hard to adjust to diff size seeds. Is that correct?

 

[Turbys_1700]

I have my dad's old Van Brunt B 14 drop drill in the barn. It is galvanized has only a seed bin. No rust. IMHO $500 is fair if the drill is in good condition. We drilled wheat, soybeans, and grass with ours. Excellent drill. An offset disc will work. We always used a cultipacker after the drill.

 

[BHD]

It's my understanding that single disk openers are very hard to adjust to diff size seeds. Is that correct?

the single disk do not need to be adjusted for seed size, but for depth, of planting of the seed
the basic adjustment is spring tension, and the adjustment of the cotter pins to adjust the amount of pressure and or depth of travel, if the soil is consistent there is little problem, speed of travel with the drill/tractor has an effect on how much soil is thrown, and there is the depth set, with either levers or by the "power lift" which adjust the point on which the springs are pushed down, and how much there pushed down, (think there is two positions on them),

I usually use the RB or the DR drills for most of our planting and use the B for feed, as it is 7" spacing, but we have planted thousands of acres with the same single disk set up, and it is a good set up, (not a high speed set up, keep you speed to under 5 mph, preferable under 4 mph, if the soil is properly worked and the drill is set correctly

the old Vanbrunts are a very very versatile drill,

 

[cat fever]

Sounds like a good buy to me. I paid 450 for the 8' Van Brundt model B. Good drill no issues. I did make my own hitch for it as the original was sub par in my opinion.

 

[dragoneggs]

Stunning pics, Cat! You seem to have some photographic composition experience.

 

[cat fever]

Stunning pics, Cat! You seem to have some photographic composition experience.

Trust me, it's all luck. I have the cheapest Nikon "point and shoot" camera made.:laughing:

PS, most of the time it's my wife taking the pictures. You can see me in the tractor. The only thing I tell her is make sure the background looks good.

 

[dragoneggs]

Hey, I have photography experience and understanding the basics is key. Building on that is the fun. Okay, kudos to your wife. You have come clean. She is the one that has been taking those beautiful pics going back some time now! :stirthepot:

 

[Turbys_1700]

Nice drill cat fever. I've got it's brother in the barn. I have no idea how many acres my dad used it on. We used it for over 25 years planting soybeans and wheat. Those drills are stone cold reliable. I had to get a spring for the right side trip gear and Deere shipped it to me. Sorta dumbfounded that they still have limited parts support for those.