Moline-Monitor Drill

I was wondering if anyone on here could give me an idea on when these drills were made. We have one that I believe to be originally bought by my grandparents. Its a PF-3 16 hole with 7 spacing.
Were trying to see if it is still operable but I know the fertilizer boxes are rusted out and we still need to get one side to turn. Its got the 46 steel wheels if that helps any.

Is it any thing like these three drills? First two are press wheel drills and very old and last one is Galvanized box and still old. Cleddy

One more with a seat. cleddy

More like the third with the galvanized boxes.

My P-3 drill is from the 50's.

What do you mean Fertilizer box?? They had the main grain seeding box and the little fine seeder box on the front. Most people never used the little box except for fine clover or alalfa see(My understanding-not 100% sure on that) Mine is galvanized so no rust but if yours was used to put Fertilizer down it may be shot?? Cleddy

Ours has has the main seed box and right behind that are fertilizer boxes. We dont have the little seed box that attracted to the front. Anyway, the fertilizer boxes rusted out in the bottom years ago (or so Im told).

That is a new one for me. In all my 60 & some years of life I have never seen Fertilizer boxes on a Drill. We did have then on Corn Planters and front mount cultivators bet the cultivator boxes were discarded very early. Cleddy

Only the very first Horse drawn drills DID NOT have fertilizer boxes on. That Is all I have ever sen in my 79 years but I do know in some areas of the country they sold drill without the fertilizer box, don't know why as when fertilizer became avaible about every body put fertilizer on wheat or oats with the grain drill. Only in last years after the fertilizer spreaders showed up dit they stop using the fertilizeb and started making a second trip across field to apply the fertilizer. Bot common to not have a grass seered box on either. I have some litature someplace that is on a Moline drillthat is on low rubber and years ago neighbor had one when he died walkimg across scales of local elevatot the afternoon of rehersal for his daugher's wedding. But that was over 40 years ago. And press wheels were never used in the corn belt.

Interesting stuff. Those Press Wheel Drills have been parked in the trees rotting away as long as I remember and I am 69 years old. We are in East Nebraska where Corn, Soybeans, some wheat and Milo are grown plus Hay. My Ancestors became farmers when they came west so they may have had to use what was available & not knew better?? We had what you call Fertilizer Spreaders made by David Bradly EZ-Flow that we used before Liquid Fertilize and Andraydus Ammonia came out. I have only been around basically 3 - 4 grain drills in my whole lifetime so have little knowledge about them. Cleddy

I am not talking about those litle drop type spreaders but the ones tat will hold several tons ans use fans to spread the fertilizer and PTO driven. I am 10 years older than you and live here in Ohio 40 mile from Indiana but Indiana and Ill an Iowa are all in the great corn belt. with Ohio being the eastern end of corn belt on west side of state. The first grain drill I rember was a wood box wood wheel with no fertilizer or grass seed atatchment. Ans only 8 drops. Then the next was an Oliver wood wheel with fertilizer and grass seed atachment. Dad would pull the small one offset befind the Oliver for soybeans that were not fertilized. Then he bought a McCormick 12-7 grain drill on low rubber as we did have to traver roads. It had the built in fertilizer box with the little front mount grass seed box that was ysed part of the time but grass seed was mostly spread by afan type spreader, first a had crank then a tractor mount powered by an auto heater motor. Grass seed was very seldom put on with wheat in the fall but nevt spring before frost was out of ground. Dad bought a John Deere same setyo as the McCormick was when the fertilixer box rusted away from use. I never did like that John Deere drill so I bought a McCormick like we had but never got it ready to use when I quite faeming. Sold both to an Amish frien machinery jocky. My drills were the1950 type. I think I saw one press wheel in my life time and it beloned to a neighbor that family had been a Case dealer and Case probably wanted one in area to demestrate to try to get farmers to buy them.