Great Plains seeders - NTS series

If you have a Great Plains NTS seeder (e.g, model NTS2607, NTS2609, NTS2611) please let me know. I would like to compare notes about use and issues.

Thanks,
Larry G
 
I only used a Great Plains seeder once from Pheasants Forever. All I wanted to seed was 10 acres. I had a friend come and try to help me set it up for the amount I needed to put down. He had been a farmer for 45 years at that time and he said it was the hardest thing to try to set he had ever seen. I started seeding at 9:30 in the morning and I was finishing up at 7:00 p.m. cleaning the drill up to take it back. I was required to put on 2 pounds per acre which was the main problem. Everyone had told me before using it that it would not drill that amount. It would do 4 fairly easily but not that amount. So my impression of the drill is NOT good. It has so many chain and sprocket adjustments that makes it very confusing. I would not use a drill of that kind again. This is just my impression of using it that one time.
 
I don't have one. Looking on tractor house looks pretty straight forward. If you want to plant grass seed or something like that put it in the front seeder box. IF you are going to plant wheat,oats or something similar then use the middle box. There should be a chart for the drives and settings. The third box back looks like it is a fertilizer box.
 
The front box is for small seeds such as clover.

The middle one is for grasses and wheat, maybe oats, too.

The rear box - an option, and many do not have it - is for fluffy native warm season grass seeds.
 
Was the seed from PF blended together or was is separated into small seeds and the large fluffy seeds?

Did the seeder have the third (rear) box for fluffy native grass seeds?
 
Yes they were separated and used the front box. It will do 4 pounds from what I was told but anything under that it will not work. Four guys who had used this type of drill before told me that after I spent all day doing those 9 to 10 acres. I'll never ever use or buy one of these drills.
 
What kind of seed were you planting? 2 pounds per acre sounds to me way to light for any crop that I knew about.
 
That was a pollinator seeding for CRP. I wanted to use 2 extra pounds of red clover which was in the mix but the Pheasants Forever biologist refused to let me add that the original mix.
 

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