DS Equipment

EVERY DRILL INTENDED FOR DIRECT SEEDING WILL WORK IF YOU UNDERSTAND IT'S LIMITATIONS AND PREPARE ACCORDINGLY!

This, and following posts will show you different styles being used.  Some farm shop built, some commercially made, probably all with some owner modification!

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We bought this AgPro Drill in 1992 with 32 openers on 9" spacing on three ranks.  Each opener is  composed of a cutting coulter, followed by a narrow point that includes deep banding of fertilizer (2" below the seed) and seed placement, followed by a 3x13 packer wheel, all mounted on a hydraulically controlled parallel link.   The red box is a single compartment 60bu seed hopper with air delivery to the openers.  The vertical tank is 400g of starter fertilizer placed with the seed.  The horizontal tank is 1500g of fertilizer that goes in the deep band.  The machine is carried on four wheels on two walking beams, and folds hydraulically to 15' road width.  This machine has had three major opener modifications.  The first modification was a conversion to 30' with 43 Accuplant double disc openers.  They worked OK; although, lots of working parts and many lube points. The current configuration is 23 (Kile), hoe type, openers with 6" spread on 16" centers with two ranks.  Issues relating to plugging forced us to remove the cutting coulters.  We are a typical long time no-tiller with a shed full of used/slightly used parts from changes/adjustments/modifications we felt necessary to improve our success in Direct Seeding.

This 100' sprayer was built up from an 80' Herman harrow cart.  The wings were converted to fold for ease of transporting to and from fields.  We have a lot of road moves.  The unit has a 1000 gallon poly tank.  Guidance, rate, boom control and mapping is done through Raven electronics through an Envizio  screen.  This unit shown above is packaged to move conveniently as a unit between tractors.