International 620 Grain Drill

2510Paul · Jul 10, 2019

Does anyone have experience with the International 620 Grain Drills? I need something for planting oats, clover and flowers for honey bees. There is a 7 footer near St. Cloud MN on Craigslist. It looks like a nice little drill. I am not wild about the hitch arrangement.

Any comments would be very much appreciated.

https://stcloud.craigslist.org/grd/d/brandon-ih-620-7ft-grain-drill-for-food/6919973711.html

Paul

SVcummins · Jul 10, 2019

Very accurate and well built . The hitch if it still looks that good Is nothing to worry about they are light built but if it?s broke I wouldn?t worry about it .

Determined · Jul 10, 2019

I have a 24 footer with steel wheels, 3 8's hitched together.

Not going to set any land speed records with it but it will get the job done.

Have put in about 500 acres with mine, oats, barley, brome, alfalfa I figure it paid for itself before I did half of that.

Worked well for me on prepared seedbeds and for seeding into stubble.

glennster · Jul 11, 2019

can't help you with the drill, but i did pollinator planting this year for my bees. i planted borage, buckwheat, white dutch and yellow clover, a couple linden trees and a pollinator mix from american meadows dot com. i discovered japanese beetles love borage grrrrr. honeybees cant feed on red clover, but they can on crimson clover.

2510Paul · Jul 11, 2019

I am not familiar with the term borage? What is that?

Can you tell me how you planted those seeds.

Thanks.

Paul

glennster · Jul 11, 2019

borage is a lower growing flower that produces lots of nectar. you can google pictures of it. bees really like it and it definitely increases honey production. i mixed all my seeds together, borage, wildflower pollinator mix, buckwheat, white and yellow clover and mixed it with sawdust i got from a local mill. then put it in the whirly spreader and broadcast spread over fresh tilled ground. you can follow up with a spike tooth harrow or even a pallet to cover the seeds. i did my seedbed preps with a 6 ft 3pt tiller. the sawdust makes the fine seeds easier to spread.

rusty6 · Jul 11, 2019

(quoted from post at 14:11:10 07/10/19) Does anyone have experience with the International 620 Grain Drills?

Paul

The IH 620 was a very popular drill here in Sask. in the 1970s. The newer 6200 as well although by then the air seeders were taking over. Be hard to find any of those drills still in use today.

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