I recently bought a Ezee Flow 100B seeder to try to seed down some oats with. It has been sitting outside for a few years so I will be taking it apart and cleaning and lubricating most of it. Any tips for using it? Will it plant oats? Does it just drop them on top of the ground? Is there a setting to how much it plants... Any information anyone knows about them would be greatly appreciated it.
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495man
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Used a 10 foot MF branded one for fertilizer, worked good, towed a harrow behind it to incorporate fertilizer.
I don't see why it wouldn't work for oats, but I am guessing it would put them on pretty heavy.
I don't have a seed chart for it, but you can do a spreader calibration with a tarp, scale and calculator.
RedGreenGuy
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Had a 10 footer with small seeder attachment. I pulled a cultipacker behind it seeding oats and alfafa with a bridge
hitch. Got very good stands and smooth hay fields. Set tines on cultipacker to just stir the soil.
hitch. Got very good stands and smooth hay fields. Set tines on cultipacker to just stir the soil.
Also sold under the New Idea name (AVCO owned both brands in the 50s and 60s). Manuals appear on eBay periodically. If you see one, get it. I used to have one of those spreaders with the original manual and it had settings for all kinds of seeds and soil amendment materials in there.
it might work for seed
I have one similar to yours, it works better spreading fertilizer or lime, do not think I would try spreading seed with it,
I use a 3 pt hitch Garber seeder to spread the seed, it has much better control of seed rates and spreads the seed evenly
then I have a cultipacker to press in the seed,
so far I have always had good results sowing seed.
you do have to have some moisture to get good germination, the old cultipacker makes a big difference in your stand as it helps hold or seal in what moisture you have in the ground.
Just my experience!
I have one similar to yours, it works better spreading fertilizer or lime, do not think I would try spreading seed with it,
I use a 3 pt hitch Garber seeder to spread the seed, it has much better control of seed rates and spreads the seed evenly
then I have a cultipacker to press in the seed,
so far I have always had good results sowing seed.
you do have to have some moisture to get good germination, the old cultipacker makes a big difference in your stand as it helps hold or seal in what moisture you have in the ground.
Just my experience!
Local equipment dealers, traders post, ask some local farmers, if they know of one, who knows they might have one setting in the back woods lot,
Corn soybean farmers do not use them
Years ago I saw mine advertised in a local paper, paid $60 for it
Again main problem in finding one today, they are very heavy, when scrap metal was so high, many good usable pieces of farm equipment when to the scrap metal yard,
Corn soybean farmers do not use them
Years ago I saw mine advertised in a local paper, paid $60 for it
Again main problem in finding one today, they are very heavy, when scrap metal was so high, many good usable pieces of farm equipment when to the scrap metal yard,
looks good for the money, best value I have seen. even if the bearings are worn some, you just keep it greased, you are not pulling it that fast, will last for years.
do not know why some were double rollers and others single,
most all the old ones were double, but the new ones I have seen are single.
12 ft is not a problem as long as you do not have to travel down a road,
I once took my 12 fertilizer spreader over to my other place.
I got up early Sunday morning and pulled it over before everyone was up.
was a pain, waited until the next Sunday to pull it back
****(do you have a way to unload it when you get it home)***** as they are very heavy??????
do not know why some were double rollers and others single,
most all the old ones were double, but the new ones I have seen are single.
12 ft is not a problem as long as you do not have to travel down a road,
I once took my 12 fertilizer spreader over to my other place.
I got up early Sunday morning and pulled it over before everyone was up.
was a pain, waited until the next Sunday to pull it back
****(do you have a way to unload it when you get it home)***** as they are very heavy??????
super99
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Back in the mid 60's, a neighbor bought a new one and pulled it behind his disk sowing oats and alfalfa. Went back with a harrow and harrowed it in. Worked good, no idea where to set it at, just trial and error. Most of those around here were used for fertilizer and not cleaned out and rusted away. Chris
My experience with the older packers is they are too light weight to do a good job on the stuff you buy them for. hard ,dry clods where you had to work the ground too early and wet.If they work the seedbed real good the the soil is usually good enough shape that you didnt need it in the first place.The newer cultipackers and cultimulchers(the one with the front and back rollers and 2 sets of cultivator tines in between) have the weight to do a good job. You can get an older one and weight it down. The older ones like i got usually have wood bearings like an old disc and need replaced.I havent been to an auction in a few years.But those prices sound awfully high.I would wait for a farm auction or better yet a consignment auction . You can usually get a good deal there. Craigs list and farm papers and Ebay the sellers set the price and are often way too high so they can dicker you down.
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