John Deere LLA grain drill

msondeno · Oct 17, 2022

I just bought a JD LLA grain drill with steel packer wheels in extremely good condition but, it has a distance or acre meter on it I have never seen before. It doesn't measure acres or 10ths but must measure distance??? It has 3 or 4 dials on it but no real measurements listed on the different dials. Can anyone shed any light on how this works or how you set it. I have a new manual for it and it doesn't make any mention of it, just the standard acre meter all those old JD drills had. Many thanks in advance.

wore out · Oct 18, 2022

(quoted from post at 21:08:53 10/17/22) I just bought a JD LLA grain drill with steel packer wheels in extremely good condition but, it has a distance or acre meter on it I have never seen before. It doesn't measure acres or 10ths but must measure distance??? It has 3 or 4 dials on it but no real measurements listed on the different dials. Can anyone shed any light on how this works or how you set it. I have a new manual for it and it doesn't make any mention of it, just the standard acre meter all those old JD drills had. Many thanks in advance.

Is this the acremeter you have? Looks like they were used up to about 1965.

msondeno · Oct 18, 2022

(quoted from post at 07:25:13 10/18/22)

(quoted from post at 21:08:53 10/17/22) I just bought a JD LLA grain drill with steel packer wheels in extremely good condition but, it has a distance or acre meter on it I have never seen before. It doesn't measure acres or 10ths but must measure distance??? It has 3 or 4 dials on it but no real measurements listed on the different dials. Can anyone shed any light on how this works or how you set it. I have a new manual for it and it doesn't make any mention of it, just the standard acre meter all those old JD drills had. Many thanks in advance.

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Is this the acremeter you have? Looks like they were used up to about 1965.

No, this is the one I'm used to. I'll try and take a picture of the one I have. It's foreign to me.

msondeno · Oct 18, 2022

(quoted from post at 07:25:13 10/18/22)

(quoted from post at 21:08:53 10/17/22) I just bought a JD LLA grain drill with steel packer wheels in extremely good condition but, it has a distance or acre meter on it I have never seen before. It doesn't measure acres or 10ths but must measure distance??? It has 3 or 4 dials on it but no real measurements listed on the different dials. Can anyone shed any light on how this works or how you set it. I have a new manual for it and it doesn't make any mention of it, just the standard acre meter all those old JD drills had. Many thanks in advance.

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Is this the acremeter you have? Looks like they were used up to about 1965.

msondeno · Oct 18, 2022

The bottom is the one I have. Never have seen one before. Think it has to do with distance traveled somehow.

Loosehandle · Oct 18, 2022

Looks based on 16 maybe something to do
with rods?

msondeno · Oct 18, 2022

That was my guess and the you'd have to figure the width of the drill to calculate an acre.

msondeno · Oct 19, 2022

This is evidently called a Rangeland land measurer according to what I finally found through some research. Most JD dealers have no idea. I would guess you calculate your distance traveled in rods , 16 feet, and multiply that by the width of your drill to calculate square footage. Then divide that by the 43560 square footage of an acre to come up with the acres you've covered or planted. It seems kind of a complex way to calculate acreage and I wonder why it was done that way. Now, a curiosity more than a question. Just and FYI I guess.

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