Grain Drill q's

[Lucid]

Hello, hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday afternoon. I am looking around for a grain drill, and thought to ask those more knowledgeable than I. A few Questions!

Finally getting things right so I can work about 4 acres under a large powerline right of way in SE Virginia. Got it bush hogged and soon will have a culvert put in to access across a large ditch. Hoping to get in there early spring once it dries up and disc.

My goals is to plant buckwheat (my fav) for a new bee colony I'll be setting up. And then have a food plot for late fall/spring. Feeding my whitetail deer to hunt.

I am using a IH Farmall 200 for the tractor. I have planters, cults, etc. But looking to add a grain drill. On a 1/4 spot I've been hand broadcasting then lightly disc in successfully for years now. Ready to take it to the next level. What do I look for getting a drill? I know condition is the main factor. Any tips you may have for me? I don't want something I'd have to spend 80hrs getting to work! How to trailer it? I have a 7x16 landscape trailer, but that tongue would have to be unbolted right?

Give me your opinions, advice, and what not!
Thanks,
Eric

 

[EFV]

With 4 acres to seed a drill narrow enough to fit on your trailer so you can hitch to tractor and unload would be big enough.
Have you considered just broadcasting the buckwheat ? You're not growing a crop to harvest so increase seeding rate and
disc it in. Doing this just before a rain would work .

 

[Richard Nixon]

Hello, hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday afternoon. I am looking around for a grain drill, and thought to ask those more knowledgeable than I. A few Questions!

Finally getting things right so I can work about 4 acres under a large powerline right of way in SE Virginia. Got it bush hogged and soon will have a culvert put in to access across a large ditch. Hoping to get in there early spring once it dries up and disc.

My goals is to plant buckwheat (my fav) for a new bee colony I'll be setting up. And then have a food plot for late fall/spring. Feeding my whitetail deer to hunt.

I am using a IH Farmall 200 for the tractor. I have planters, cults, etc. But looking to add a grain drill. On a 1/4 spot I've been hand broadcasting then lightly disc in successfully for years now. Ready to take it to the next level. What do I look for getting a drill? I know condition is the main factor. Any tips you may have for me? I don't want something I'd have to spend 80hrs getting to work! How to trailer it? I have a 7x16 landscape trailer, but that tongue would have to be unbolted right?

Give me your opinions, advice, and what not!
Thanks,
Eric

Our local New Holland dealer is a Great Plains dealer and every year I see a wheeled pull-type 10 foot Great Plains drill sitting in their yard with a "RENT ME" sign on it. It seems if you could find something like that it would be ideal seeing as how you only have 4 acres. You could pull it behind your pickup or just use your tractor to get it. This is a picture of the smaller 6' model.

 

[ss55]

Our local New Holland dealer is a Great Plains dealer and every year I see a wheeled pull-type 10 foot Great Plains drill sitting in their yard with a "RENT ME" sign on it. It seems if you could find something like that it would be ideal seeing as how you only have 4 acres. You could pull it behind your pickup or just use your tractor to get it. This is a picture of the smaller 6' model.

Is a SMTA heavy enough to pull a six foot no-til drill?

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Hello, hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday afternoon. I am looking around for a grain drill, and thought to ask those more knowledgeable than I. A few Questions!

Finally getting things right so I can work about 4 acres under a large powerline right of way in SE Virginia. Got it bush hogged and soon will have a culvert put in to access across a large ditch. Hoping to get in there early spring once it dries up and disc.

My goals is to plant buckwheat (my fav) for a new bee colony I'll be setting up. And then have a food plot for late fall/spring. Feeding my whitetail deer to hunt.

I am using a IH Farmall 200 for the tractor. I have planters, cults, etc. But looking to add a grain drill. On a 1/4 spot I've been hand broadcasting then lightly disc in successfully for years now. Ready to take it to the next level. What do I look for getting a drill? I know condition is the main factor. Any tips you may have for me? I don't want something I'd have to spend 80hrs getting to work! How to trailer it? I have a 7x16 landscape trailer, but that tongue would have to be unbolted right?

Give me your opinions, advice, and what not!
Thanks,
Eric

Don't know about there- here in central NY IH grain drills were very popular. There are usually 10 foot ones around. If they didn't have fertilizer and were stored inside, they'll be fine. JD also.

 

[Lucid]

Yes there is a Massey Ferguson 33 2hrs away that looks good. Prolly an 10'. I have heavily debated hand seeding the 4 acres, but after a june heart attack I'm thinking maybe not haha.

 

[Richard Nixon]

Is a SMTA heavy enough to pull a six foot no-til drill?

It might be a trifle bit of overkill. LOL. Your mentioning the SMTA brought back a memory. I the fall of 1954 the local Farmall dealer brought out a brand new SMTA with a 5 bottom semi-mounted plow. I had never seen a 5 bottom plow before that. The plowing, although in heavy red clay loam soil, was fairly easy because it was in a corn field that had been harvested for silage. We all got to make a few rounds across a 40 acre field and it was quite impressive. We all liked the TA feature. Nobody bought one.

 

[urbancase]

Not sure if what you want but some of the small 5 and 6 foot 3 point drills set for min till would be what I would look for. You could spread you fertilizer and use that to seed your plot.

 

[joeysmith]

Maybe go this route an still broadcast but take the hand work out a somewhat

Easily transported on trailer
Can spread some fertilizer as well if ya decided to

 

[NY 986]

Just about any brand will work but if you see an Ontario drill they came in 8 ft widths and can be bought for a song. Have not been made for quite a long time now but a close inspection should eliminate any surprises when going to the field. Ontario drills were very common around here until the 1970's and were made here in the Finger Lakes region (Prattsburgh, NY).