single row no till drill

[Anonymous]

I have been reading the article about the no till development in brazil that BenDube posted and it looks like it would be pretty easy to build one of the walk behind no till drills. It is exactly what I have been looking for. Has anyone modified a single row planter for no till, or have any insight on how to do it? The article is called “No tillage farming for sustainable development” but I dont have the link anymore. I was originally just going to use a ripper and a planet jr walk behind seeder but it would be nice to do it in roughly one pass.

Jared

[Andy Carson]

Hey Jared,
Check out this thread. http://www.draftanimalpower.com/showthread.php?3719-seeder-recommendations&highlight=seeder+recommendations. I ended up making a single row no till drill. It worked, but in my hands I was not able to achieve an appropriate level of weed control to use it without significant tillage. When I completed enough tillage to control weeds, I had enough of a seed bed to use a more conventional seeder. Not sure if this will be the case for you, but that’s what I found.

[Anonymous]

Thanks andy I missed that thread in my searches.

Jared

[Anonymous]

Ok so I did a little searching based on the paper I was reading and I found the website for the organization in brazil working on no till, I dont speak portugese but looking around the site they have some interesting stuff…

http://www.iapar.br

and here are the different seeders they have developed, I was picturing something roughly like the third one down on the right to build for myself.

http://www.iapar.br/arquivos/File/folhetos/tracaoanimal/tracaoanimal.html

I dont know anything about seed drills so I was hoping someone could weigh in here, are they as simple as they look? can I basically build a tool frame with a coulter and a ground drive seed drill on the back?

Jared

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