Dearborn-Peoria Grain Drill Model 12-40

Summers70

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I was recently lucky enough to find and purchase a Dearborn Peoria Model 12-40 Grain Drill w/ the grass seeder attachment. I have both the manual and a parts book for it but I’d love some first hand knowledge and experience/advice on it. Anyone have/use on of these? Anyone have any luck finding or fashioning parts for it? It seems in pretty good shape but I’ll admit I don’t know a lot about them. It definitely needs drop tubes for the grain tubes and the grass seeder. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ideally I’d like to use it and show it. Here’s a picture of it.
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I sold mine a few years ago as I had started to restore it but never got a round tuit. I used it once to plant rye in food plots. I?d had done the wheels and bearings with new tubes and tires. The A/O manual should explain usage. Parts are no longer serviced but you can fab your own or find others that may work. What are you missing? George Bradish Tractor Parts makes and sells repop decals for this too.

My old Dearborn-Peroria Grain Drill:
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Tim *PloughNman* Daley(MI)
 
Well I’m missing all the drop tubes for the grass seeder attachment. Plus I’m missing a couple drop tubes for the regular planter, and a couple more seem in pretty tough shape. As I understand, a fella needs several different reducer plates to be able to plant a wide variety of the different seeds the decal lists? Something like - different plates allow for different seeds to be planted? I’m not sure what plates I have and what they’ll allow me to plant if that makes sense. I do see the flip diverters in the bottom of the box...one side for oats, one side for wheat. Maybe that’s all I can plant without those different plates..
 
I had all the extra plates, tubes, and gears needed, but wish I'd kept the thing now. The guy I sold mine to passed away and I don't know what ever happened to it. I don't believe he got around to restoring it either. I may be able to find out the status of it. The only thing I can suggest is to contact Zack Smith (Facebook Page) and he maybe able to help with parts. Or, find another and swap out what you need...


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I’ve spoke with Zach a little bit on there but don’t want to pry too much. I have whatever reducer plate F149 is for ( I just haven’t had time to look it up yet). My Drill has the original paper decal on it yet but it’s in fair shape at best. I’d love to be able to plant everything listed on the decal, but sadly that seems at this point only a dream. At the very least if I can use it to plant a couple different crops I’d be relatively happy. I’d just love to find someone with the different plates to try and see if some copies could be made somehow. Doesn’t seem to be many of these drills around, and even less people who have used them. I will say that there are many drills out there that look nearly identical other than having been painted different colors. It makes me wonder if some parts could be interchangeable from different makes/models.
 


I stand corrected. The missing pieces I was referring to in addition to some drop tubes are called reducers. They fit in the bottom of the grain box either on the wheat side or the oats side. I’ve attached a picture of the page in the manual that refers to them. I’ll have to cross reference the decal on the inside of the lid but maybe I’m not quite as limited as I thought. Maybe.
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