Anyone built a seed drill?

Dachshund · May 10, 2005

I want/need to build a small (5') seed drill. Want to use it for grass, hay seed. I've got cultipacker parts laying around, just need to figure out the drill part. Any ideas?

RonR · May 10, 2005

I've thought about buying two 30 inch wide fertilizer drop spreaders (if I could find them that wide), hook them together at the axles, mount them forward and above a pulverizer type roller, and use it to drill grass seed.

The drive would be off the pulvervizer roller.

If you build the prototype, I'll let you...............

Ron

bobodu · May 10, 2005

Did a Google search for seed drill plans...not much luck...BUT..did you know that Jetho Tull invented the seed drill??
Any of you youngun's heard of Jethro Tull?
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Laminarman · May 10, 2005

Good luck. I'd love to have one also. I asked for plans for a rock picker and one for a powdered lime spreader (that WORKS) and got NADA. Nothing. Zilch. GooseEgg. Halo. Used drills are expensive and I haven't been able to find one in decent shape for under about $750...and they were U G L Y

Dachshund · May 10, 2005

Wasn't he the gut who had locomotive breath?

Indydirtfarmer · May 11, 2005

( I want/need to build a small (5') seed drill. Want to use it for grass, hay seed. I've got cultipacker parts laying around, just need to figure out the drill part. Any ideas? )

Racking the ol' brain now, trying to remember the name of the company (from Shelbyville, Indiana) that makes one targeting the "deer food plot/landscape market". I'll hunt up the literature when i get home today....

Also, try "Sukup". They make dairy/hay/forage equipment mainly. They have a small drill for doing grass/small grains. I looked at them at the recent National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville this past Feb.

Indydirtfarmer · May 11, 2005

( I've thought about buying two 30 inch wide fertilizer drop spreaders (if I could find them that wide), hook them together at the axles, mount them forward and above a pulverizer type roller, and use it to drill grass seed.

The drive would be off the pulvervizer roller.

If you build the prototype, I'll let you...............

Ron )

Contact Ken Sweet (Sweet Farm Equipment) and ask about the Ferguson Yardmaker. I have a 7'er on order now. (He has 6' models in stock) They are essentially what you describe. A drop spreader followed by a packer wheel. Packer drives the drop spreader. Nice, clean outfit, and fairly inexpensive....

Indydirtfarmer · May 11, 2005

( ( I want/need to build a small (5') seed drill. Want to use it for grass, hay seed. I've got cultipacker parts laying around, just need to figure out the drill part. Any ideas? )

Racking the ol' brain now, trying to remember the name of the company (from Shelbyville, Indiana) that makes one targeting the "deer food plot/landscape market". I'll hunt up the literature when i get home today....

Also, try "Sukup". They make dairy/hay/forage equipment mainly. They have a small drill for doing grass/small grains. I looked at them at the recent National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville this past Feb. )

KASCO Manufacturing!!!! (Shelbyville, Indiana) The ECO-DRILL!!! I thought of it the exact second I hit the submit button......Neat little drill.... Kinda pricey.....

Wannafish · May 11, 2005

"BUT..did you know that Jetho Tull invented the seed drill??"

That just goes to show my ignorance. I thought he was too young to have been born early enough to have invented it in the 1930's.

Indydirtfarmer · May 11, 2005

( "BUT..did you know that Jetho Tull invented the seed drill??"

That just goes to show my ignorance. I thought he was too young to have been born early enough to have invented it in the 1930's. )

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