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Shoe Drills Revisited...

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Baggsy

01-05-2000 05:41:39




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I've found an old John Deere shoe drill, on steel, 12 foot with steel wheel packers. Packers are two wheels set about an inch apart with an 18 inch radius or so. Pull type, no hydraulics, has little openers where the seed drops down to blow chaff out. Two levers to drop her down with. Best shape I've seen on an old one yet. Owner figures 1940's or early 50's. What advantages does the disc type openers have over the shoe? And might anyone have an idea what model this might be? Price is right down my alley so I'm really thinking this one over. Tim (NJ), are you out there?

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Tim(nj)

01-06-2000 19:41:10




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 Re: Shoe Drills Revisited... in reply to Baggsy, 01-05-2000 05:41:39  
Could be an L. As far as I know, Deere drills after WWII had rubber transport tires. This one may be late thirties. Shoe (or hoe) drills were often used to direct plant through standing small grain stubble where, since you cut high, a rough ground surface didn't matter. Apparently, early disk drills didn't handle gravelly soil well either. Just north of me there is an area where glacial gravel is mixed with the soil, and occasionally an old Ontario hoe drill will show up on auction. The old timers said the hoes weren't affected by the little stones in the soil like the disk openers were (must've been murder on plowshares, too). A disk drill will give you better seed placement. For small grains, this isn't that great of a concern, but if you want to drill beans, you have to be consistently well-placed. That's why most conventional drills intended for beans are double-disk, used in well-worked seedbeds.

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Gerald J.

01-05-2000 17:11:50




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 Re: Shoe Drills Revisited... in reply to Baggsy, 01-05-2000 05:41:39  
I know that I've been advised that disk openers work better on a corn planter than shoes. I suspect that the ground has to be worked up a lot finer with the shoes so they don't rise up over hard clods. The disk openers on the drill I use make the field look like I've pulled the disk over the field again. They do split clods that they come to.

Gerald J.



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