Buckeye Grain Drill

[BIGR]

I just picked up this Buckeye what I think is a Grain Drill? It's a 6 row with like cultivator's on the back side. Wooden wheels and box. Couldn't let it go to scrap. It says Force Feed on the end plates. Can anyone tell me what actually is?

 

[Dick2]

More detailed pics would help. Can't see where the seed tubes are connected to drop the seed.

This was originally a horse-drawn drill, but the tongue has been converted to pull with a tractor. Somewhere there must be a lift mechanism. Originally there would have been a board across the back where the horse driver stood. Also should have been somewhere that the driver could wrap up the lines when he stopped for some reason.

Dad had a disc type drill; he normally used 3 horses on the drill, which seemed kind of odd to me because I always thought of horse as teams.
 

[Tim(nj)]

Could be a hoe drill, where the tubes would attach behind the cultivator teeth. In some places they were preferred over disk openers. There was also a seeder back then that was pretty much a drop spreader mounted on top of a cultivator . . . basically the force-feed dropped the seed out the bottom of the cups, scattering it in front of the cultivator teeth for covering. There were no tubes.
 

[daynee]

This is what one of my books had in it. This is a 1895 advertisement in a magazine portrays the Buckeye grain drill, telling of its qualities. The company was established in 1854 and had a very long career in the grain drill business. Thus, the Buckeye name carried with it a fine reputation in this business.

daynee