KingKutter Seeder

[Anonymous-0]

I need to seed a waterway this spring and I bought a KingKutter seeder to do the job. Will be using oats as a cover crop and the grass mix has brome grass in it. The seeder doesn't come with a manual and the rate decal does not have oats or brome grass on it. Does any one have experience with one of these as to how to set it. Mine is a 3 point model. I will seed the oats first then the grass. If I read the decal right you don,t use the agitator with the wheel on it for seed, but only for fertilizer. Is this correct? Thanks.

 

[paul]

That's pretty easy? Try the web site... Upper right corner, get the 11 meg pdf manual....

http://www.kingkutter.com/store-product.aspx?id=3426

--->Paul
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[JD Seller]

It is kind of a guessing game as the ground speed, PTO speed, and how far the gate is open all effect the seeding rate. I would use the manual to try to get a rough idea of where you need to be at.

I have taken a card board box and cut it to fit up around the spinner. Try to get a good fit. You want to catch all of then seed. Set your rate to where you think it should be. Then drive a set distance. (this would be the spread width in feet divided into 43560(number of square feet in an acre). That would be the number of liner feet your seeder would travel in an acre. Then divide that by 10 or 100. That way you would have a tenth or one hundredth of an acre.) Then drive that far catching all of the seed. Then weight the seed caught while driving the measured distance. The use the factor(1/10 or 1/100) you came up with times the weight of the seed you caught. (The larger the test sample the more accurate the setting. A 1/10 of an acres will make any weight error be less of a factor.) This would be your seeding rate per acre. Do the test seeding distance several times and then average your results for the most accurate setting.


DO not try to get it set to seed the full rate in one pass. IF you do that and have it set too wide you will run out of seed. So set it for a 1/2 or 1/3 rate. With the half rate you can go over it and then come back over the ground driving between your first set of tracks. This is actually the best way with lighter grass seed. When you use blended grass seed some of it is lighter and will not be thrown as far. So by splitting the tracks you will get a better spread pattern.

If this confused you email me and I can walk you through it on the phone. All you really need to do is seed a test area to adjust the seeding rate. IF you where seeding a larger area that a water way you could do it by actually seeding a 1/10 of an acre with a weighted amount of seed in the hooper. Then you would seed the test plot and then weight what was left and that would tell you what you actually put on.

Setting a grain drill or seed spreader is a guessing game where you know the actual rate when you are done. LOL Can be real frustrating at times.