seeder recommendations

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  • March 22, 2011 at 2:02 am #64465
    Tim Harrigan
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    OK, now we know for sure, if anyone challenges Andy to a contest of junkyard wars they don’t stand a chance.:D That will be the talk of the coffee shop this spring. Can’t wait to find out how it work. You better put an air horn on that thing.

    March 22, 2011 at 3:07 am #64445
    Simple Living
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    Andy I think it’s great that she lets you put that in the garage! Really though, I hope you are on to something there. There have been many men in history that were mocked untill they got it right. If you can, try to document all of the field work with video! I think we all could learn something from your youth and tenacity!

    Gordon

    March 25, 2011 at 1:05 am #64490
    Andy Carson
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    I’m not sure if this is very useful information, but just in case anyone is interested, finger pickups designed for corn also meter peas and sunflowers. I am not really surprised at the sunflowers, but I thought I would have to futz with the fingers for the peas. Ran a few cups of seed though the machine, and it meters 12 seeds nearly every rotation. This ability probably depends on seed size to some extent, so perhaps I got a little lucky… A side note, I did end up taking out the “conveyor belt” for the peas (for those of you familiar with this type of machine). The fingers spin pretty fast when metering peas and the belt was creating a lot of drag and making the bike wheel skid a bit. I’ll probably put it back on for the corn and sunflower (where the fingers spin a lot slower), although I don’t really see what it so great about the conveyor belt anyway. If the fingers have incorrectly metered seed, the conveyor is simply going to carry that mistake along…

    April 16, 2011 at 3:07 am #64491
    Andy Carson
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    tried seeder today and the bicycle wheel didn’t have enough down pressure (or traction) to run the mechanism in the field. It runs fie on the lawn but I definitely underestimated the traction different between lawn and soil. I have a fix in mind, though, so we’ll see. Lost my day though, and it’s supposed to rain again tomorrow…

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