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John Deere Van Brunt Drill

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60 acre hillside

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I was at an auction a couple weeks ago and bought an old John Deere Van Brunt drill. It needs just a bit of work. I have no immediate plans for using the drill but will clean it up. It is a low rubber tired drill 13 discs with 7 inch spacing. The seeding rate is changed by sliding the feed wheels to the side rather than changing the speed as some drills do. The seed box is galvanized. I am wondering what model it is. It is hydraulic lift rather than clutch lift/ Tires are poor old 15 inch passenger tires and about half of the covering chains are missing, Otherwise looks to be in good shape.
 
(quoted from post at 11:10:10 10/09/14) Odds are if the box is galvanized it's a model B drill. The FB series had green boxes. Mike
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SORRY Mike but JD model B drills only came in even opener sizes not "13"!!!!!!!!!!! Dang it was fun assembling those grain drills way back when I 1st started working for a JD dealer.
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Thank you fellows for helping me. I have discovered that it is frozen up on one side. I cleaned it thoroughly and am now soaking the frozen side in diesel fuel and ATF, It looked good inside but now I have found the problem. The feed adjustment moves freely but the feed shaft will not turn
 
My first thought was a model B as well but as Tx Jim pointed out they all had an even number of runs.

The meter you describe is known as a "fluted feed" and most modern box drills still use this same concept. The other meter you mention that uses a speed changer is known as a "double run" and was popular in some areas years ago. One side of the meter was used for small seeds like wheat and milo and the other could handle large seeds like beans.
 
I've used three different van Brunt drills.

Yours sounds different than any of mine. I had a DR and a BR not sure what the steel wheeled one was. All of mine had even number of discs
 
Mike
I'm not 100% sure about the galvanized box either as I haven't seen a FB in yrs but I know there's a difference in the FB/FB-A drill boxes vs FB-B boxes which were green with yellow arched lids.
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I'll make a correction in my earlier statement as it appears there was three(10,12 & 16) even opening sizes of a FB that I've NEVER seen.
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I have the exact same problem with my drill. It slides freely but won't rotate. I've soaked and heated and it still won't turn. I actually broke the drive gear trying to turn it with the wheel. I cannot figure out where it is stuck. Love to hear what you find on yours.
 
(quoted from post at 20:04:10 10/11/14) The FB was flat lids and all green that I had. 13-7 single disk, 15" rubber.
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Leroy
Was your FB ever painted after it left the factory? I remember assembling JD grain drills at the dealership but FB's were built long before I worked at dealer.
 
It was a one owner drill when we got it and the orignal purcheser was a Deere garage mechanic. It was green with the numbers stenciled on and no sign of boxes ever having any galvanize in them. And something you might find interesting they have the serial number painted on on both the box and the frame, this one had different numbers on box and frame. I figure the selling dealer got 2 drills in at one time and when they set them up did not bother to check to make sure the parts were all for the same machine. I know where the one I had is still setting, he never got it unstuck from where it when I had to leave it setting out and weather opened boxes and I did not know that. It is on a dealer's lot but because it is low rubber it is still there as the high steel is all that is selling, mostly Oliver wood box drills.
 

Getting the frame & box assembled with serial numbers incorrectly would be my guess. I remember unloading RR boxcars full of grain drill components and then sorting through them at dealership to assemble the model B & FB-B then later the 8000 series grain drills.
 
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