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Spring Planting, packer wheels/roller

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dmiller

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I use an old van brunt to plant wheat/barley. This equipment is 40 years older that what I was taught on. The drill I was taught on had packer wheels and a (what we called a culti-packer, around here they call them a roller harrow)was pulled in front of the drill often.
The idea was to firm up the seed bed and make sure all seeds were covered.
My question...
Can't afford a newer drill, but could probably make some type of packer to go behind the drill.
Would it be worth it, or am I doing fine with just pulling a drag harrow behind the drill (set unaggressively).
Trying to improve stand/germination so I can get the yields up to where I can afford some newer equipment.
 
If you have a firm seed bed, and then drill in your wheat with the Van Brundt, Why tear it up with a spike tooth harrow? You will loosen up the soil around the seeds.
 
I have a FB drill also with drag chain/rings. I have great luck with putting a chain (one to tie down tractors on a trailer) across the back and dragging behind the rings. Put in many fields with great stands of alfalfa, oats and wheat.
 
I was concerned about that same thing so did part of the field with a drag chain (old set of tire chains, the original drag chain is long gone).
This was only covering about half the seeds, so I used a drag harrow on a small section and it covered quite a bit better as for covering, but made the seed bed softer, deeper, and scattered the seed around.
 
I get pretty good results using a 1946 model JD Van Brunt drill followed by a section harrow then go over it with my cultipacker.
 
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