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Michael Soldan
04-25-2005 09:48:33
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Re: Mccormick Deereing Grain Drill Help in reply to Ironhorse, 04-25-2005 07:29:16
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Ironhorse, I have one up in my barn, still in good working condition. The front boxes are your seed boxes, the rears are for fertilizer. There should be feeds in the rear boxes that look like thin cogs, these rotate to keep the fertilizer loose and feeding into the spouts. Is your drill a single disc or a double disc, double discs at the bottom of each feed were newer models. I believe you have a #10 McCormick drill. You can seed from one side or the other or both . There may be a grass seeder box on the back beneath the fertilizer boxes. I would guess your drill is somewhere between 1945 and1955. I remember ours being delivered into our yard and I wasn't very old so maybe1953. I can still get the grain spouts for it but they are now converted to rubber, comes with a wire clip that you attatch andtwist onto the downspout(feed). They are indestructable and don't rust like the originals. I don't remember wher the serial plate is but I will look tomorrow when I go out do feed the cattle. I have a brochure produced by McCormick Deering that was taken on my grampas farm, it was of a new seed drill being pulled by a team of horses and my Uncle Roy was driving them. They gave him a complimentary brochure and I found it in his things when he died, he had proudly left a note inside it explaining the significance of the brochure and he named the two horses he was driving. That was around 1940 and it would be a predecessor of the #10 seed drill. So as to your question of horsepower to pull it in real terms the answer is "Two" I used to seed with an Allis Chalmers C and it would pull the drill easily...you don't need much horsepower. If I were you I would get some penetrating oil and oil all gears and chains, collars on shafts etc. There was a collar on the trip mechanism on ours that siezed from sitting and I had to heat it red hot and douse it with cold water to get it free, ever since I have kept it oiled. There is a crank shaft at one end of the drill that you could put a crank on and rotate the mechanism to see that the fertilizer feeds worked and the seeds were dropping/working, it was also there so you could clean the drill out and get all the seeds out by cranking the mechanism. The seed chart was glued onto the inside tops of the seed boxes, giving data on how to set the drill for different crops, unfortunately after 50 or 60 years not many have survived. I should probably get a manual for mine too as I forget from one year to the next about settings and I haven't seeded grain in 3 years. They were good drills and there were a pile of them sold, many seeded the farm for decades, neighbour up the road still uses his grandfathers drill to sow his wheat and oats. That's about all I can tell you off the top of my head....Mike in Exeter Ontario
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