IH Grain Drill ID Application

I have 10 acres of pasture to seed this spring and will have several other fields to overseed in the next couple years. I was originally going to rent the no till drill from the soil and water district but
they have some odd insurance requirements and would rather not waste money on a rental...

Do you think this drill would be sufficient to seed into prepared and unprepared seed beds? New seedings will be disced, overseeded hay fields likely won't be. Does anyone know what model IH drill this is?


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I use a John Deere to do the same thing youll want to loosen the soil a little bit and seeding in the fall or frost seeding is the best
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that is a double disc drill and you need to have a worked seed bed first. them can harrow after seeding if you want. have never saw an ih like that, i have one similar with the big steel wheels. that one looks like a 14 run, so it be 7 foot.
 
The grass seed box on the back looks just like a Massey. I have a MF 33 single disc drill and I have used it many times for no till oats and alfalfa seeding. I planted into corn stubble where corn was chopped for silage, planting winter rye several years. Planted oats and alfalfa into soybean stubble in spring with very good success. I always pulled a brillion roller behind the drill to improve soil to seed contact. Good Luck!
 
(quoted from post at 07:49:14 03/08/21) that is a double disc drill and you need to have a worked seed bed first. them can harrow after seeding if you want. have never saw an ih like that, i have one similar with the big steel wheels. that one looks like a 14 run, so it be 7 foot.

"that is a double disc drill"

I'm not sure, in the second photo the "boots" look like single disk versions???

Are you seeing double disk openers in the first photo/?

If they ARE single-disk openers I would think they would be a little better in trash and untilled ground, what do you think, "rust"?
 
I had an elderly uncle that used a drill similar to that to stick some clover seed in some older CRP ground. I thought it would be a total failure, but he went out in the early spring when the ground was soft- almost muddy- and it worked! He got a nice stand.

A lot will depend on what you are seeding into and how much precip you get. Grass, clover, etc doesn't need to be in deep if planted in the spring in a wet climate.
 
I would agree with Coonie. I have a Great Plains end wheel drill-not a no till drill. I have drilled rye into corn silage ground after harvest, rye into both soybean stubble and corn stalks and oats into soybean stubble and gotten along fine. Soil conditions are the key. It sounds like you dont have a huge number of acres to cover so Im confident it will work ok. There may have been small, hi traffic areas that had a thin stand but overall always acceptable. Good luck.
 
I could make it work, I have with the same drill style, mine is double disk opener.

I do some funny things with tillage and harrowing and watch the weather close, but you can certainly make it work.

Paul
 
Looks like a model MF to me. Single disk openers by the looks of the visible boots. I had an old JD Van Brunt FB single disk that would slice into spring sod that wasn't too dry well enough to get a good stand. No reason an IH drill of the same vintage won't do the same. I could put the tubes from the front high-mounted grass seed box on my drill into ports on the feedcups to drop grass seed into the furrows. doesn't look like you can do that with the rear low mounted box this drill?
 
yes two disc's and the seed falls between. i dont know what u calls call double disc? i thought it was MF and forgot to post that. but it is
either double disc or hoe drill is what those old things were, and that is not a hoe drill.
 

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