Loading the Seed Hoppers and Addressing Old Seed

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The presenter proceeds to load the seed hoppers of the Woods Precision Super Seeder. He first removes an old DeWalt shop vac from the hopper, which was used to clean out a previous batch of clover seed. He reveals a critical mistake: leaving some clover seed in the hopper over winter, which absorbed moisture and solidified, hindering seed flow. He advises against leaving seed in the drill to avoid such issues. He then uses a stiff-bristled brush to break up the caked-on clover seed. The seed drill has three seed bays: one for summertime native grasses, one for cool-season grasses (which he will use for fescue), and one for clover and small seeds like millet. He loads 50lb bags of an 80/20 mix (80% tall fescue, 20% German foxtail millet) into the appropriate hopper. He explains the reason for using clover and millet (small seeds): to establish a cover quickly, allowing fescue to establish itself beneath and promoting nitrogen fixation in the soil.

Goal: The presenter loads the seed hoppers with fescue and millet mixture, emphasizing the importance of cleaning out old seed from the hoppers to prevent moisture damage and ensure proper seed flow.

Tools and materials

DeWalt Shop Vac DeWalt
Stiff-bristled Brush Generic
Woods Precision Super Seeder PSS72 Woods
Kentucky 32 Fescue Kentucky 32
Medium Ladino Clover Generic

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be jealous of my gen 2 dodge that's the unicorn dodge truck right there i bought that truck with 121 000 miles on it about six years ago i got about 145 000 on it now it's the 24 valve cummins nice laramie leather what a beautiful truck it's a shame it's sitting out here in the sun shame on me so let's open up the seed hoppers show you what's up oh okay here's one bag here's another bag and you guys are gonna laugh because this is my clover it's in here let me show you the mistake that i made last fall i left some clover seed in the seed drill don't leave seed in your seed drill if you do that plan to pay for it and we're gonna have to fix that problem right now we're gonna have to blow out the seed drill i'll open it up and show you inside the hopper here in the clover hopper there are individual little divots right here kind of like funnels and inside the funnels are little gears okay those gears turn this is what happens when you let moisture get to it so that gets kind of hard so we got to break that up a little bit we might not have to blow it out i think we can just break it up i'm just going to use a stiff bristled brush to break all that mess up in there i think we'll be just fine this thing is driven by the big rollers on the bottom okay so it's not driven by pto if you don't have one of these little shop vacs you just ain't living right here's all my clover seed that's probably 120 worth of clover seed uh this year so that's what we're gonna do we're gonna put half of it in one bin and half in the other clover we use is called medium la dino clover medium la dino clover is a medium height about that tall sometimes about this tall and it seeds itself back out the reason we're putting clover on our pastures is solely for nitrogen fixation these clover patches bring out the other grasses and help the other grasses to grow without fertilizer there's nitrogen in the air that gets pulled into the ground and helps your pastures grow so that's what this is all about not using fertilizer is not using chemicals and using nature to pull nitrogen to the soil awesome so what we're going to do is put down an 80 20 mix and some regular k32 fescue and i'll explain why the 80 20 makes so we've got two different types of grasses here we've got kentucky 32 fescue tall fescue which is what we graze our cattle on we graze them on fescue a lot of people have a problem with grazing cattle on fescue but fescue grass is what everybody has around here fescue hay is what's…

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