The drive sprocket was mounted on the inside of the left rear wheel of the wagon, and as I recall it was about 15-18" diameter. I don't recall if that wheel had to be taken off to install that sprocket, or if it was a 2-piece deal. The seeder had a separate small "bin" for small seeds like alfalfa, clover, etc. The large "bin" was for the oats or wheat which you shoveled in as the tractor and wagon proceeded forward. This was a 2 person job...a tractor driver and a person in the wagon. Most farmers I knew used a flair box wagon for this purpose and the wheel sprocket stayed on thru the years. You could seed quite a wide strip each pass...depending on how far you could see (or estimated) the small seeds fly. We almost always seeded into last years cornstalks; a couple diskings, then seed, then lightly disk again to incorporate the seed. The oats we harvested in late summer, the "hay seed" would grow some, but that became our hay ground the 2nd year. I'm sure a lot of the small seeds were disked in too deeply, but that was the "hi-tech" of the day. I can still hear the sound of those beaters whizzing round and round. I know of one IH end gate seeder in Iowa that is in prime condition. I'm guessing there are many of them in machine sheds in Iowa.
When I moved to Wisconsin in 1973 I never saw an end gate seeder being used....everything is done with drills here, which is really the more accurate way to seed small grains and hay seeds. To this day I've never met a Wisconsin farmer who knew what I was talking about at the mention of "end gate seeder".
But in Iowa in those days, corn and soybeans were the prime crops and oats and alfalfa or clover was something you had to do for rotation or feeding. Thus the end gate seeder was fast at covering lots of acres quickly "to get it over with".
In Wisconsin, alfalfa is the prime crop for serious dairying so accurate seeding is vital and much more attention is paid to that.
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