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Setting Rye Grain, Wheat, and Clover Seed Rates

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COOL FARM TOOLS EXPLAINED...NO-TILL SEED DRILL...SEE HOW IT WORKS!!

What happens here

The presenter explains the strategic choice of planting rye grain and grass for rapid growth on a hillside to prevent soil erosion. He sets the rye grain hopper to a 'Pointer Setting' of 5, targeting 15 pounds per acre. Discovering residual wheat in the drill, he decides to quickly dispense it by setting the wheat hopper to a 'Pointer Setting' of 12. For the clover, which is in a separate hopper, he manually slides a gear adjuster to the '1' setting and secures it with a wing nut, ensuring a precise and minimal dispersal rate for the tiny seeds.

Goal: Configure seed drill for rye grain, wheat, and clover at specific rates

Tools and materials

  • Clover Seed Gear Adjuster — Precisely controlling the small clover seed dispersal rate
  • Hand Crank — Adjusting the seed output rate for grain hoppers
  • Seed Rate Chart Haybuster — Reference for appropriate seed settings
  • Wing Nut — Securing the clover seed gear adjuster in place

What they say

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so we'll get on our crank right here and we'll start cranking until this guy gets on the five okay it's set wide open 14 right now so actually something's crunching in there Oh looks like we've still got some wheat down in here so that being said we'll find the setting for wheat and we'll set it on what we want the wheat to be ed now I was told when I got this thing that it had some wheat in it did I want the wheat taken out and I said no no we'll just drill it down in two so we'll take the wheat and we'll run around and we'll drill with the wheat just a little bit on some top edges and some really like steep spots now the setting for wheat and we want to dump it out as fast as we can we'll probably put the wheat at and let's just dump it we'll put it up twelve okay we're gonna get rid of that week now the rear hopper is a little bit different it's four clover seed if you look up in there that's for a smaller seed and I'll show you so the seeds are caught by this little gear right here and here's the adjuster you slide that left to right and the gear slides left to right so that's how much it's open however much gear is exposed inside of this tells you how much seed you're gonna have down and we're gonna set it we're gonna take it all the way to zero and we're just gonna barely open it to one right there is the one and it's a dial right there okay we tighten up the little wing nut okay now there's another one we repeat this process right there there's another one on the other side so this is two separate compartments I don't know how that rat got there but that's gross

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