Drill seeder help

[cat fever]

Thanks all for the compliments on the hitch.

I may get to use it soon. If it stays dry this week, my fertilizer guy will come and then I can seed. Would be nice to get it done this early.
I plan to seed with Oats and Peas with the already existing alfalfa in the field. The cows will think they are in heaven with that gourmet salad. :laughing:

 

[ovrszd]

Lynn, I'm jealous of your drill. Wish I could find one. I'd convert it to 3pt. What brand is yours???

High scrap iron prices sent a lot of these to the shredder...... Real bummer....

Nice work on the hitch, didn't mean to distract from that. Was just consumed by jealousy for a moment.....

 

[Tx Jim]

Lynn's grain drill is a JD model B plain grain. I remember assembling them back in the 60's when I was employed by a JD dealer. They were built from '46 - mid 60's.

 

[aarolar]

Lynn, I'm jealous of your drill. Wish I could find one. I'd convert it to 3pt. What brand is yours???

High scrap iron prices sent a lot of these to the shredder...... Real bummer....

Nice work on the hitch, didn't mean to distract from that. Was just consumed by jealousy for a moment.....

You and I both...

 

[Turbys_1700]

Lynn's grain drill is a JD model B plain grain. I remember assembling them back in the 60's when I was employed by a JD dealer. They were built from '46 - mid 60's.

It is just like the one we have in the shed. They do a good job. Deere must have made thousands of those units. That is all you saw around here back in the 60's and 70's. I actually purchased a spring for the drive engage gear on ours last year. Still stocked and delivered by mail to my house in several days. I think that ours is a 14-7...14 drops on 7" spacing.

 

[cat fever]

Lynn, I'm jealous of your drill. Wish I could find one. I'd convert it to 3pt. What brand is yours???

High scrap iron prices sent a lot of these to the shredder...... Real bummer....

Nice work on the hitch, didn't mean to distract from that. Was just consumed by jealousy for a moment.....

Thanks Richard, I feel lucky to have found it, about 100 miles from my house.

Jim is correct about the drill. The sticker is gone but it said Van Brunt also. It's a 16 drop 6" spacing. I wanted to find one with the small seed box, but just couldn't find one close and in working order. I got this one from the original owner with the owners manual. Paid 450 bucks. Took a little cleaning and grease but it seems to work fine. I'll know for sure within a couple weeks. I plan to seed soon as I can.

Like Turby, I might need to buy the gear engaging spring. It's not broke but maybe weak. Takes a little WD40 to get the gears engaged. I think now that I have it and keep it stored indoors everything should be better for the gears.

 

[Turbys_1700]

Thanks Richard, I feel lucky to have found it, about 100 miles from my house.

Jim is correct about the drill. The sticker is gone but it said Van Brunt also. It's a 16 drop 6" spacing. I wanted to find one with the small seed box, but just couldn't find one close and in working order. I got this one from the original owner with the owners manual. Paid 450 bucks. Took a little cleaning and grease but it seems to work fine. I'll know for sure within a couple weeks. I plan to seed soon as I can.

Like Turby, I might need to buy the gear engaging spring. It's not broke but maybe weak. Takes a little WD40 to get the gears engaged. I think now that I have it and keep it stored indoors everything should be better for the gears.

If I remember correctly the spring was around $5.00. The shipping and handling was $12.00. Was in stock in the warehouse.

 

[cat fever]

OK thanks.

 

[Tx Jim]

I checked and gear engagement spring is still available from JD. S337M Extension Spring - TENSION SPRING ADD 4.11 USD

 

[Turbys_1700]

I checked and gear engagement spring is still available from JD. S337M Extension Spring - TENSION SPRING ADD 4.11 USD

Tx Jim...
Could you estimate how many of those Van Brunts you assembled or worked on???
Just curious...
Also amazed that Deere would still keep that part in stock...
They sold oodles of them...

 

[Tx Jim]

Turbys_1700
Time has a way of making memories dim. I can't give a good answer but SEVERAL I assembled many different types of equipment when things at dealership slowed down. I assembled model B,FB-B,8000 series drills plus disk harrows,field cultivators,rotary mowers,field sprayers,etc during my 21+ yrs of employment at the dealership.

 

[cat fever]

I checked and gear engagement spring is still available from JD. S337M Extension Spring - TENSION SPRING ADD 4.11 USD

Thanks.

 

[olPete]

Thanks all for the compliments on the hitch.

I may get to use it soon. If it stays dry this week, my fertilizer guy will come and then I can seed. Would be nice to get it done this early.
I plan to seed with Oats and Peas with the already existing alfalfa in the field. The cows will think they are in heaven with that gourmet salad. :laughing:

That's what I do too! I just keep adding and adding and adding.. my permanent pastures have about 15 varieties already and counting.. drill looks great. Will you lower your oats and peas rate to try keep the alfalfa going? Don't mean to go off topic but I'm always forever curious

 

[Turbys_1700]

Turbys_1700
Time has a way of making memories dim. I can't give a good answer but SEVERAL I assembled many different types of equipment when things at dealership slowed down. I assembled model B,FB-B,8000 series drills plus disk harrows,field cultivators,rotary mowers,field sprayers,etc during my 21+ yrs of employment at the dealership.

Thanks Tx Jim for the reply. We drilled many an acre with that drill. It works really well for over seeding my yard with fescue. Don't think I'll ever part with it. Don't know if all B models came with a galvanized seed box or not. Our other drill had a fertilizer box and rust was a common issue on those units.

 

[Tx Jim]

All model B drills had galvanised seed box

 

[cat fever]

That's what I do too! I just keep adding and adding and adding.. my permanent pastures have about 15 varieties already and counting.. drill looks great. Will you lower your oats and peas rate to try keep the alfalfa going? Don't mean to go off topic but I'm always forever curious

I mostly wanted to plant oats/peas for a few years to wipe out all the weeds/seeds in the field then hit it hard with alfalfa. Seeding every year adds cost to the whole operation, were as alfalfa comes back every year for several years without extra cost. This year I'm going with this mix.

Monida Oats 36%
Haybet Barley 22%
Twin Wheat 31%
Austrian Peas 10%

Comes in 50 pound bags already mixed and ready to dump in the seeder.
Keep in mind the pasture already has a fair amount of alfalfa in it.

 

[olPete]

That's quite a different mix to what I use. By weight I am putting in 60% oats/40% field peas with my aerator/air seeder machine, and then drilling in my permanent pastures afterwards with a roller drill. Per 50 pounds it's roughly 12 pounds over clover (red, strawberry, a prostrate white and an upright white variety) plus Timothy, perennial ryegrass, a little annual ryegrass, sheep's parsley, plantain, and I will trial chicory this time. I aim to cut I the existing pasture for baled silage and then put all the seed on while it's still sulking.. much the same, we have a lot of old "survival grass" that is hard to smother. Will hopefully get the peas at the budding stage for silage, and then graze. Too wet here for traditional alfalfa (we call it lucerne) but they are developing new strains that can handle wet feet over winter. We get about 40 inches of rainfall here, as you can tell from my pictures on the landscapes thread, we boundary a rainforest. Albeit a cold one..

 

[cat fever]

The supplier I buy from blends mixes specifically for our elevation and rainfall. (4500' & 12" rain) I only get 1 cut per year. If very lucky and it rains a lot I would get two cuts but no more. Last year I did all oats. It was a good year but I'll try this new mix and see how it works out.

 

[olPete]

Hmm that's not much rain..
Would millet grow where you are? It could be a good carrier for your alfalfa seed through your drill. Similar size but less density perhaps. Or a brassica maybe buy it would likely shade out your crop too much unless you could graze it off early. Millet you could probably mow off and use it as a green mulch for moisture retention. I'm really just thinking out loud silently. :laughing:

 

[cat fever]

Most years we get a wet spring that's why we get one good cut. After that the only thing that will grow is weeds. :confused3:
I guess they don't need water.:confused2: