Re: Grain Drills

Posted by James2 on March 17, 2005 at 08:29:01 from (12.2.142.7):

In Reply to: Re: Grain Drills posted by paul on March 16, 2005 at 15:37:33:

In the 30 years Dad owned that old steel wheeled drill, I don't believe he ever changed a disk bearing. But then again, he didn't drill over 4.5 mph. The single seemed to work pretty good with the shallow disked ground, that is, it cut a slightly deeper trench and the chains covered the seed with the limited amount of loose dirt. We just had an old 10 ft JD tandem. It was difficult for me to believe that it was doing a good job, but every time and everywhere I looked, the seed was covered and we always got a decent stand. I had plenty of time to look, Dad always did all the planting and drilling. Fast forward to the current times, I have an IH 620 double disk press wheel drill that does one heck of a job. Not easy to move, but that is the reason they made planter trailers. Since I have a much heavier tandem disk with mounted harrow (IH490), working up a good seed bed with a couple of passes is not difficult. More often it is one pass with the disk and one pass with the field cultivator Overall I believe my end results are better with stands now being very good to excellent. Suprising how just spending some money without getting crazy, makes the job easier and the results much better. However this violates my father's guiding principle which was never verbalized yet patently evident: "you don't have to make much money if you don't spend any". Unfortunately, this has a tendency to make a relative hard life, a lot more difficult. On the positive side, he had no debts or mortgage when he passed away, and did survive some pretty tough times.

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