Need More Coffee! Not Awake!

Since my wife is from St. Louis, I wanna let her hear this blower "sing" this morning. Sure, not a problem.

But, for some odd reason, I seem to be having a little trouble getting the square peg in the round hole, tho.

Ooops, wait a minute; hold on there. 540s and 1,000s don't intertwine! :>)

Now, I'm wondering how the rest of my day is gonna go; I always have been a little slow on the uptake. :>(

Allan

scotty

If I remember right, two farmers up in North Dakota dreamed up this little idea, which is just pretty darned slick.

That hydraulic pump runs a big fan at the rear of the seed hopper (first picture). 11 oz of air pressure is created and forced into the hopper, the drum feed chute underneath, the seed drum itself and then out to the planter shoes via air tubes.

The seed falls from the hopper into the seed drum (second picture) via a chute and then the seed will try to escape out of those little holes in the drum. The holes are too small for the seed to get out, so it is "caught" and held in the holes by the escaping air as it rotates.

The drum turns with ground travel driven by the tires, and as the drum rotates, the seed is brought up under those 6 little black 'drop wheels'.

As the little wheels travel across the holes in the rotating drum, they cut off the escaping air forcing the seed to then drop down into a manifold, which is hooked to each row's seed tube. Since the tubes are pressurized as well, the seed then "flies" out to the shoe.

Yes, the little white boxes put on the insecticide via the planters ground driven press wheels.

Allan

Since the tractor has to be run at high rpm to keep the air pressure up, things get a little noisey and distracting.

So consequently, everything is visual to give the operator indications of how well the machine is operating.

From the tractor seat, that little plastic window gives a view as to the hopper's seed fill. The gauge gives air pressure and the red arm at the back with the white flag, is hooked to an eccentric wheel running on top of the drop wheels. This tells the operator that the seed drum is indeed turning.

Allan

I see you have a King Kutter bush hog, they make some desent stuff. I have one of there 6ft grader blades for the driveway, although I been usin my Woods rotary with good luck. Thanks for the walkthrough!

scotty

Too much coffee will wreck your _ _ _ life.

How much snow you get. Where was the tornado. I never had that fancy a planter. Just used a 4 row lister. Dryland farmin. Wake up.

steveormary

Suppertime but no coffee,just tea.

steveormary