How To Set Your Grain Drill – How-To & Plans

How To Set Your Grain Drill

by Robert Lamm of Freeport, IL

Mr. Lynn Miller,

A number of occasions up to now few years, I’ve seen advertisements in farm papers asking data on completely different makes of grain drills as to how one can set the quantity of seed sowed per acre.

I despatched them copies of the chart enclosed, a high quality chart exhibiting any make drill. Possibly you’d have use for it.

I’m 93 years outdated and have seen grain drills come into use and out once more thrice. I’ve now offered all of my vintage equipment and am dwelling on the town.

I had 12 horsepowers at one time, from one or two horse to 12 horse. I had a 12 horse Case threshing outfit, IHC Baler, drag noticed, 20 particular person merry-go-round, buzz noticed, grist mill, grain elevator, a two-horse treadmill and small thresher, hand fed.

I’ve had 30 years of horsepowers, the machine that adjustments the horse’s energy to tumbling rod, or belt energy.

In case you are within the powers, paperwork, footage and what I discovered about them, let me know and I’ll ship them to you.

Thanks,Robert LammFreeport, Illinois

P.S. I don’t see a lot about horsepowers within the Journal, I’m wondering why?

Pricey Robert, Thanks for sharing this very helpful seed drill data. Sure we’re excited in what you must share about horsepowers. As to why you don’t see data on this publication on horsepowers; we simply haven’t been capable of finding any. Thanks for sharing. LRM

ADJUSTING GRAIN DRILL FOR SEEDING CLINTON OATS

Division of Agricultural EngineeringUniversity of Illinois Faculty of Agriculture, 1946

For the reason that price of seeding any oats with a grain drill will fluctuate significantly with the diploma of cleanness of the oats, essentially the most passable methodology of figuring out an correct drill setting for any specific lot of seed is by a calibration check. To make this check, elevate and block up one aspect of the drill in order that the wheel on that aspect will flip freely. The seed dropped by a sure variety of revolutions of the wheel must be collected in cans, paper sacks, or on a canvas unfold beneath all drill tubes. The desk exhibits the variety of wheel revolutions for numerous drill widths and wheel diameters to cowl 1/10 acre.

Set the drill at what you assume would be the right place, after which test the setting. With the drill crammed with seed, flip the wheel the required variety of revolutions to cowl 1/10 acre, as proven within the desk to your specific wheel diameter and drill width. The overall weight of seed dropped on this check must be 3.2 kilos for the specified Clinton oats seeding of 32 kilos per acre. In drills through which one-half the width is operated by every wheel, the quantity of seed dropped by one-half must be collected and weighed. This weight have to be multiplied by two, and the full ought to then equal 3.2 kilos for this check. A number of exams could also be essential to seek out the right setting.

Exams have been made with Clinton oats on two drills out there within the laboratory. It was discovered that with a VanBrunt tractor drill with 46-inch wheels and 7- inch tube spacing, the right setting to seed 32 kilos per acre was notch 9. For a horse-drawn Superior Drill with 48-inch wheels and eight tubes spaced 8 inches aside, the setting for this price of seeding was discovered to be notch 7 when the No. 1 openings have been used.