J.D. Van Brunt Drill Settings

I jacked up one drive wheel and I put a paper sack under the seed tube. I put in a mound of seed over that seed meter and turned the wheel (with the lift lowered so the drive was in gear) until I had seed through the meter. Then I emptied the sack and put a chalk mark on the tire. After ten turns of the tire I counted or weighed the seed. I was able to split hairs with the precision of the calibration and also to see that when I was trying to run corn through it that a couple seeds per 100 were getting split. I suspect it might treat soy beans worse than those small flat corn kernels. I calculated seed per acre based on drill spacing and ten times the circumference of the drive wheel. Ten times the circumference of the drive wheel at 7" spacing gave me so many square feet which I divided into 43560 to see how many times to multiply my one row count to get the seed per acre.

Gerald J.

Gerald J.

I picked up the 17x7 Deere Van Brunt drill tonight. No perforations over even thin spots in the fertilizer compartement. All the rotary disks, plates an hold down tabs are there and free. Grass seeder is on the front. Looks like installing the mechanical lift chains, a couple of down spout hoses, 1/2 a dozen of those chutes under the fertilizer and she's ready to go. Any idea what model it could be or where they hid the serial # plate? $400.00 Canadian peso's.

On the Van Brunt we use to have, when you stood on the footboard, the model # was stamped on the back of the grass seed box, I think on the left end, between the grass and grain boxes.

Ken