Seeders 3 point Brillion SureStand?

[petebert]

Found this 3 point Brillion Surestand near me. I have multiple 1 acre pastures that sometimes I will overseed or sometimes I just tear up the whole thing and reseed it. I was going to try frost seeding some alfalfa and clover into some in the spring. Right now I broadcast seed them. If it's a bare field I'll then run over it with a cultipacker or drag a weighted fence piece around.

Could I use this surestand for doing all that instead? Thought it might work well in the spring when the pastures are mushy to work some new seed into them. Any idea how to tell if it still works? I'm guessing ground contact on one of the rollers is what causes the entire mechanism to work. How about a price? The sign on it says $750 obo.

 

[teg]

That's a pretty good price if everything works....

 

[lt190b]

do they have the lids?

 

[petebert]

Probably no lids I'm guessing, I'm going to call the guy. Can I overseed with one of these or are they meant to be used on tilled land?

 

[leonz]

Probably no lids I'm guessing, I'm going to call the guy. Can I overseed with one of these or are they meant to be used on tilled land?

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Nope, the ground has to be tilled and gone over with a disc harrow unless you have a north west tiller that can till and prepare seed bed in one pass.

 

[petebert]

I seeded 10 acres this year using onto a tilled field using a spreader and a borrowed cultipacker. For the foreseeable future I don't plan completely redoing any more fields. Just wanted to overseed alfalfa and clover into a few. That's why I was thinking with this it might work better in the spring when the fields are mushy than to just broadcast onto the frost. Is that not the case or would the difference in results not really be worthwhile?

 

[flusher]

These seeders work on tilled soil.
It's a drop seeder combined with a cultipacker in one unit so you only have to make one pass over the tilled field to get it planted.
Yes, the seeder is ground-driven (no pto).
They are excellent for small size seed. My neighbor uses a Brillion to seed his alfalfa fields (25 acres).
That seeder you're looking at appears OK. Price is reasonable (used Brillion's generally go for $1500 and up).
You need to get the lids.

Good luck.

 

[leonz]

you will be throwing money away(your time, seed, fertilizer, fuel,) if you do not plow and disc when the time is right to reseed after the ground is warm, you can seed later too so do not feel your season is wasted.

The damage to the seed boxes tells me that they never stored it indoors or tarped it with a good tarp and it needs new seed boxes. You will need to take the seed boxes off to check them for blockages-from spider webs and vermin that may have dumped nut shells and feces in the tubes.

Even with the weather damage you have a machine that just needs a little work and you can make money with it.

 

[RickB]

you will be throwing money away(your time, seed, fertilizer, fuel,) if you do not plow and disc when the time is right to reseed after the ground is warm, you can seed later too so do not feel your season is wasted.

The damage to the seed boxes tells me that they never stored it indoors or tarped it with a good tarp and it needs new seed boxes. You will need to take the seed boxes off to check them for blockages-from spider webs and vermin that may have dumped nut shells and feces in the tubes.

Even with the weather damage you have a machine that just needs a little work and you can make money with it.

A Brillion seeder has no seed tubes. Everything about the seed metering can be observed and repaired with the box mounted.

 

[petebert]

So to see if it works I would need it lifted off the ground to spin the front roller I'm guessing. Should it be able to spin by hand?