Grain drill(s)-finally found

[flusher]

Been looking for a 10-ft grain drill with grass box the past 6 months. The quest ended yesterday in my neighborhood about 3 miles away.

A neighbor had these in the her horse pasture. They're Minneapolis Moline P3-6 drills (20 rows) from the 1940s. Towed them home on the back roads with the F150 (3mph, scared the dogs along the way, lotsa fun).

The one on the left is the working unit which is in good shape (no missing parts);

the one on the right is the spares unit.

Price: $275 for the pair.

Galvanized seed boxes have a little surface rust. Seed cups and drop tubes in good shape. Single-disc openers. Double disc openers would be nice. Maybe I can rig those up using the spare discs.

The adjustments work fine. Noticed that the two drills have different designs for the height adjusters. Need to get educated on reasons why.

No press wheels (I may add these later).

MM calls these "all steel" drills. The only non-metallics on these things are paint and grease. I'll probably repaint them in MM colors.

My haying equipment is taking up more room as time goes on

 

[TwinWillows]

Nice find on the drills & no flats to worry about

 

[sammyd]

Lots of ground was seeded without 2 disc openers and press wheels.
Make sure it's worked up decent, and pull a cultipacker behind is all that's needed. Why make life harder than it all ready is.

 

[flusher]

Lots of ground was seeded without 2 disc openers and press wheels.
Make sure it's worked up decent, and pull a cultipacker behind is all that's needed. Why make life harder than it all ready is.

I agree. I have a cultipacker that would be easy to hitch to the drill.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

I have used drills with both single and double disc openers. I have not had any problems with the single disc or double disc openers. One advantage to single disc openers is that your cost to replace them is half as much

 

[redneckford]

Nice equipment shed flusher. Down here in Louisiana that baler would rust down in a week are two. Looks like rust has not been invented in your part of the country from the looks of your equipment.

 

[flusher]

Nice equipment shed flusher. Down here in Louisiana that baler would rust down in a week are two. Looks like rust has not been invented in your part of the country from the looks of your equipment.

It's nothing like Lousiana up here in the North Sacramento Valley. Average yearly rainfall is 18-20 inches on the valley floor where I'm located. We've had 12 inches since start of the rainy season last Nov. No measurable rainfall since 28 Feb 08.

Lotsa irrigation around me from the local irrigation district, but my 10 acres are not in the district. There's an old ag well on my property, but it's pretty much shot and would have to be redrilled if I wanted to irrigate.

Rust and corrosion are not much of a problem. No snow down here so no salt corrosion either.