I've been using our old Van Brunt 14-7 B drill to overseed fescue in our yard for years. Works fine. Just have to wait until the soil is moist enough to get the coulters in the ground. I mow high but the old drill still cuts through the fescue. Germination is high and the results are great. Thanks for the video. These old drills "just work" and there are a lot of them out there.
I have that exact grain drill, cut into a 6 row configuration and custom 3pt frame with golf cart tires chain driven. You can buy these cheap and with some welding knowledge you can easily make a quality drill with the same quality as an expensive one for dirt cheap.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience, I got one question - where can I get buy those cheap grain drill? I would really love to ship em to my country
Whoa whoa whoa.. hold on here.. You're pulling a 16 foot double disc drill with a 1025r? Edit: I see the DR1610B is a single disc unit, which makes this slightly more impressive for the 1025
No till; two big problems your opener needs down pressure to open the soil, you have to cover the seed. both are hard to achieve using conventional drills. How ever you are getting better, more even seed coverage than broadcasting. That drill will work better with minimum tillage. I know exactly what you are dealing with. I've gotten away with no till drilling radish using a conventional press drill, but to be honest if I would have had hard ground it wouldn't have worked as well. a small disk does a long way, my 2 cents.
Spot on friend. That’s exactly right. Soil and seed has to be right to have success. Cowpeas are the biggest seed I have had success with this method. Rain is critical as well.
Thanks for the question. For starters, most of the crops in my area are cotton fields, though deer do eat some in cotton fields, I provide a better source of nutrition in the summer. Impact with my 7 acres of foodplots is negligible on varmints. The total goal for me is to provide the best nutrition as possible for all wildlife, not just deer. Thanks for watching.
Deer and ground hogs do the most damage here. Especially deer. Game Warren's give out permits to hunt them out of season and they can be spot lighted at night legally. Many land owners in my area are landlords who don't permit hunting of any kind. It's sad for the farmers and consumers.
I've been using our old Van Brunt 14-7 B drill to overseed fescue in our yard for years. Works fine. Just have to wait until the soil is moist enough to get the coulters in the ground. I mow high but the old drill still cuts through the fescue. Germination is high and the results are great. Thanks for the video. These old drills "just work" and there are a lot of them out there.
Thanks for sharing your experience. They are timeless machines.
Thanks for sharing your videos and keep them coming please.
Thank you. Will do. Thanks for watching.
Here in southern Indiana somebody would want $3,000 for one of those that has been out in the woods for 30 years and has trees growing through it lol
Wow Josh! Definitely a sellers market now. Sure hurts our pocketbook. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for the point about cost of seed vs new equipment, plan to do some crimson clover and elbon rye, the winter peas may be too big a seed.
Winter peas were tough. I've gotten germination, but poor germination rate. Thanks for watching.
I have that exact grain drill, cut into a 6 row configuration and custom 3pt frame with golf cart tires chain driven. You can buy these cheap and with some welding knowledge you can easily make a quality drill with the same quality as an expensive one for dirt cheap.
That's sounds awesome!!. I'm looking for one now to cut down. I'd like to keep this one for when I'm in a pinch for big jobs.
@@WhitetailVideoMagazine have an email or phone number I can send some pictures of it. Maybe spark an idea for your own drill
@@vincentecherer6349 thanks. whitetailvideomag@gmail.com
Thanks! I found this helpful.
Thank you. Thanks for watching.
Once you plant with the no till drill do you make another pass with a crimper to lay down the existing vegetation?
Best of luck some of it looks pretty good
It’s not bad considering I improvised with the drill, and major competition from weeds. Deer are pounding it. That’s a win. Thanks for watching
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience, I got one question - where can I get buy those cheap grain drill? I would really love to ship em to my country
Thank you. I found it at a farm auction. It is very difficult to find shipping out of the US.
Whoa whoa whoa.. hold on here..
You're pulling a 16 foot double disc drill with a 1025r?
Edit: I see the DR1610B is a single disc unit, which makes this slightly more impressive for the 1025
Its a great little tractor. I was impressed that it could do it. Thanks for watching.
No till; two big problems your opener needs down pressure to open the soil, you have to cover the seed. both are hard to achieve using conventional drills. How ever you are getting better, more even seed coverage than broadcasting. That drill will work better with minimum tillage. I know exactly what you are dealing with. I've gotten away with no till drilling radish using a conventional press drill, but to be honest if I would have had hard ground it wouldn't have worked as well. a small disk does a long way, my 2 cents.
Spot on friend. That’s exactly right. Soil and seed has to be right to have success. Cowpeas are the biggest seed I have had success with this method. Rain is critical as well.
Why bother feeding animals who eat plenty of farmers crops. This is just causing more undesirable activity out of varmints.
Thanks for the question. For starters, most of the crops in my area are cotton fields, though deer do eat some in cotton fields, I provide a better source of nutrition in the summer. Impact with my 7 acres of foodplots is negligible on varmints. The total goal for me is to provide the best nutrition as possible for all wildlife, not just deer. Thanks for watching.
In Ohio they not only eat the crops they tramp them down. This causes more damage than eating them. Hete we face a 10 to 15 per cent damage per field.
@@haroldswick9962 Are you talking about hogs or deer? That's causing the damage?
@@haroldswick9962 Here hogs do the most damage. But I'm sure deer do a lot of damage in a soybean field.
Deer and ground hogs do the most damage here. Especially deer. Game Warren's give out permits to hunt them out of season and they can be spot lighted at night legally. Many land owners in my area are landlords who don't permit hunting of any kind. It's sad for the farmers and consumers.