Seed Drilling Oats - John Deere 4640 & 750 Seed Drill 

I totally agree! Usually young farmers start off with fairly older tractors and work there way up.... That's just what I've learned.

+Pietsch Farms I miss farming. grew up working with a 67 farmall 1466. loved that tractor. I wish I could get back into it.

I'm just proud that they are using tractors and equipment that's available on the farm. They are smart enough to be satisfied with stuff that works and are not dumb enough to go buy/put money down on new tractors, etc. and have tremendous debt.

I know a farmer that runs about 1500 acres and still has old equipment. Why spend millions on new when the old runs just as good?

Larry342516 Indeed, it is all done visually. You can get pretty accurate by line of sight. It doesn't have to be spot on compared to corn or beans due to what we will be using it for.

You can see the rows you planted and line the seeder next the the last rows side

Mark Dean The drive automatically disengages when you lift the disks off the gorund.

Philip Terkelsen No, most planters over here have them I don't know why that one does not it might be because it is so small they don't need them.

Most guys nowdays are using GPS autosteer, if they're big enough and have new enough equipment. Otherwise they're using row markers on their planters, since most planters are pretty darn wide and you want the row spacing between passes as close as possible to being straight and even. With a 15 foot drill like this and a tractor with straddle duals like this, there's really no point to having row markers on the drill, because the drill isn't but a foot or two wider than the tractor itself, so it's easy to "get your bearings" and run the drill with the outside opener close enough "within reason" to the last pass to keep from overlapping too much or leaving wide unplanted strips between passes. When I was running a Case IH coulter cart/drill combo planting soybeans for my brother in law in Indiana, I was pulling this 15 foot drill combo behind a Case 2290 tractor-- no markers or anything were required because basically I just lined up the corner of the window with the last drill opener trench from the last pass, and the end opener on the drill would be within a few inches of it, so it was "close enough" without needing GPS or row markers... sometimes it'd overlap the last opener or get maybe a foot away, but that's not enough to worry about on a drill, really... and it was usually on rolling ground or if I had my attention diverted a few seconds and I drifted out of position when it happened, so it was infrequent and easy to correct... Later! OL J R :)

Yep. Just I think, 10 bolts? Just bolts on to a bolted on hub that's clamp bolted to the axle.

Yes, but it's much more work than its worth doing, especially if you're just using the tractor for a few days for stuff like this.

Yep. Pretty sure drills just need no till coulters and trash wheels.

Usually by mounting it on a coulter cart... the coulter cart is usually very heavy so that the coulter blades actually cut into the hard no-till ground to slice through residue and create a cut/slightly worked area (with wavy coulters) for the drill's seed disk openers to carve into as they pass over, following in the same tracks. Most double-disk drills simply don't have the weight or cutting capacity to no-till on their own-- the disk openers will ride up out of the soil or have very irregular and shallow seeding depth, hampering the new crop's timely emergence. I ran a Case IH coulter cart with a 5200 IH drill mounted on it to plant soybeans for my brother in law. It worked really well no-tilling soybeans into corn stubble-- the coulter cart would slice right through the corn stalk residue and loosen the soil ahead of the double-disk openers of the drill and allow it to place the seed in mellow soil, and the single press wheels pressed it in and closed the trench pretty well. Problem was, at only 15 feet wide, it took a lot of time to cover a lot of ground, and the whole "controlled spill" metering of the drill feed cups meant you spewed a lot more seed than necessary, with some ending up on top of the ground and some buried too deep, because a regular double-disk drill doesn't have very accurate seeding depth because there's no gauge wheels to control the depth of the seed disk openers, and the press wheels follow behind, so the openers might be cutting through a high spot or going through a low spot compared to the press wheel behind, which puts the seed in too deep or too shallow, respectively-- or the press wheel goes over a bump and lifts the opener out of the ground and puts seed on the surface or very shallow, or the press wheel drops into a low spot which allows the seed disks to cut in too deep and put the seed too deep. That's why he sold the no-till drill and went to a Deere 1780 air planter with the 15 inch interplant row units... the gauge wheels on either side of the disk openers ensure the seed is always at the same planting depth, regardless of whether the closing wheels behind ride up over a bump or down into a hole. The vacuum seed plates also meter the seed out extremely accurately, reducing the amount of seed needed compared to a drill. Plus, the 1780 is twice as wide at 30 feet as the drill was at 15 feet, so you're covering twice as much ground with every pass as you did with the drill, so twice the acres per day (roughly, since you run the planter at a slower ground speed usually than the drill, and fill-ups are more time consuming on the planter than the drill). The 15 inch row spacing versus the 7.5 inch spacing on the drill also helps with molds and fungal diseases in soybeans, as it allows greater airflow between the rows, while still being close enough for the beans to "canopy" fast to suppress late-germinating weeds. Later! OL J R :)

Wyomingfarmer Yeah, I fudged up. Good catch.

+How Farms Work why was he riding on the drill

Chris Atkins I'm obviously not who you were asking but I'd say to keep an eye on the seed. My buddy who farmhands rides on the drill with bags of seed and when it get low instead of stopping and waiting to get refilled he does it while the tractor is in motion. Saves time and get more acreage done in a day

Don Mann The variety is Croplan MP1000. I assume most alfalfa varieties these days have been selected for desirable traits such as winterhardiness. I don't believe this variety is roundup ready, however.

Bill Whitman There is a lot of weight balancing on the rear hitch, which made the front end pretty light. We wouldn't have been able to pull it through that field without duals.

How Farms Work Have you seen Onelonleyfarmer pulling his JD 750 no-till drill with a JD730?

Nope, bear in mind we have different soil types out here. In this particular field we would have sat and spun without the duals and the weight.

He did it as an experiment not an application. I agree that you need a bigger footprint, just wondered about the horse-power.

How Farms Work I noticed yall applyied a 3 point hitch and a pintle system to that draw bar, is that so yall could turn with the duals? I haven't seen anyone doing that? but I see where the weight distribution would have a factor with it

Why not? Has a play form.

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last time i went on the back of the drill i got covered in dust xD

last time i went on the back of the drill i got covered in dust xD

Oops

You're just too picky. Lol

Yeah, that's what I thought too. OL J R :)

Andy Thorson That'd be my dad and he's in charge of doing what he wants. Sometimes its nice to sit back and enjoy the farming life, such as riding along on the drill.

How Farms Work well said with your dad "being in charge of what he wants. LOL. I like that. I am sure he has earned that right. I probably came across a little harsh with the comment, It just don't seem like the most comfortable spot to enjoy the day, but to each there own. I enjoy you videos.