Seeders

emanon4563 · Apr 15, 2012

I borrowed a friends Brillion seeder last summer to reseed our lawn at work, it work great. I have some CRP land to seed and was thinking that it would also work well for food plots. I have been trying to find one but the problem is finding one that isn't in Egypt or new. Evidently once you buy one you hang on to it for life.

Muhammad · Apr 15, 2012

Welcome to TBN.

kensnelling · Apr 16, 2012

Welcome to the forum from Oklahoma.

Ken

rambler · Apr 16, 2012

Those sort of seeders work well, but might be overkill for 'just' food plots. They bring a pretty penny, you won't find a cheap one worth buying.

--->Paul

TripleR · Apr 16, 2012

Welcome to TBN from Missouri. Agree, they are expensive. We bought a used Great Plains no till we used for years. We have it for sale, but no one wants to pay what its worth, so we will just let it sit.

creekbend · Apr 16, 2012

Welcome aboard. Best Wishes.

moored4 · Apr 17, 2012

:welcome: to TBN! :thumbsup:

Happy :tractor: ing!

flusher · Apr 17, 2012

emanon4563 said:
I borrowed a friends Brillion seeder last summer to reseed our lawn at work, it work great. I have some CRP land to seed and was thinking that it would also work well for food plots. I have been trying to find one but the problem is finding one that isn't in Egypt or new. Evidently once you buy one you hang on to it for life.

There are different kinds of Brillion seeders--landscape versions and field crop versions. Kinda depends on what seed you plan to use for your CRP acres and your food plots. For example, my neighbor uses a field crop Brillion to plant and reseed his 30 acre alfalfa field.

You're right, Brillion is the high price spread but these seeders come up for sale on eBay all the time. You might find a usable one for $2K or so if you shop carefully.

Or you can go the really low cost route and find a used grain drill in your area and fix it up. I did that with a couple of Minneapolis Moline P3-6 drill that I found locally for $275. Put another $250 into the project and used parts from both drills to make one usable one. Planted 6 acres of Kanota oats with it a few years ago.

Some guys cut these 10-footers in half, rebuild the two parts into 5-ft wide drills and sell them on eBay to food plot folks for $1500-2500.

That restored drill worked pretty well for oats

Those two MM drills had grass seed boxes so I used two 5-ft wide boxes to make a 10-ft wide drop spreader that worked pretty well. Planted a mix of annual ryegrass and Lana vetch to test it out on two acres.