International Seed Drill, What is it?

mclove

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I have just bought a IH 48 inch seed drill. The nameplate shows 7 N-2440.
I can not seem to find out what it is. I would like to find manual after I see what the correct model number is.
I know it is older, but there is not hydraulics, 8 disc's on 7" center, manual clutch to lower disc' and three container on top, one small seed and the other for larger. I do not know what the back half container does.

Please help.
I have pictures if someone needs them to ID to what I have.
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It didn't come from the factory that way.....

I would guess that might be a cut down grain drill with a 3pt welded on it.

If it is IHC, it would be a 'McCormick' era machine, but I'm not familiar with single disc openers so can't tell from those pic angles. Perhaps it is
a different brand, repainted.

Typically the front box is for alfalfa or clover, the big box is for the small grains, and I am not familiar with, but understand a fertilizer box can be
on the back. I don't see the value of a fertilizer box that goes 1/2 way across?

Paul
 

Looks like a homemade job to me.

I'd guess it's cut down from a later "M" model drill. It looks older than a 10 / 510 etc.

Half width box is weird too, only thing I can think of is that the drill was made to over seed a row crop and only fertilizer the row crop, not between the row? Still would be a headache running it and getting the band in the right place since you couldn't alternate direction?
 
If I had to guess I'd say your missing the other half
of the fertilizer bin. Someone took a lot of time to
shorten it up though, possibly just didn't take the
time to either remove the other box, or was going to
add it later and never got it done.
 
Just how wide is it? 8 openers on 7" spacing would be 56" not 48" and I think some plot combines were made to cut a 5' swath. so if that was a possibility then the back box filled with fertilizer and with converted to 3 point hitch you could turn around and go back beside previous pass leaving a no fertilizer test strip along with a test strip and the fertilizer box emptied after a few rounds and a different type of fertilizer put in. And then that little test plot combine would run each strip seperate and weigh yield. Do you know where it came from? a seed testing station perhaps? And the small seed box on the front to find out if grass or leguames affected the yeald of the wheat or barly, rhy or oats in the big box. And the differences with or without fertiliver.
 

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