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Help on a Home-hacked Acorn Planter

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Jeff Hoo

02-02-2003 14:19:05




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OK, sure. I know. I'm probably just feeding the squirrels and armadillos, and I should've done this last fall, but I just wanted to see If I could make this work.


I've got about 5 bushels of red oak acorns off of pop's tree that he swept up, so I figured I'd try to plant em by using my box blade to scratch a furrow. I looked at copying professional planters that rotate and drop them evenly spaced, but I wanted them more random, so I'm just dropping them down a tube.


My problem is, once they're in the furrow behind the scarifier tooth, I can't cover them up too well in the same pass. I added some little shares, but their angle was too sharp, and only worked after a second pass without the tooth down.

Any suggestions?


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ID-Junker

02-03-2003 07:20:00




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 Re: Help on a Home-hacked Acorn Planter in reply to Jeff Hoo, 02-02-2003 14:19:05  
How About useing car tire chains lead out flat as a harrow?



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Jeff Hoo

02-03-2003 09:39:05




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 Re: Re: Help on a Home-hacked Acorn Planter in reply to ID-Junker, 02-03-2003 07:20:00  
That's a good idea. Another guy suggested I use a piece of chain-link fence similarly. A tire chain might tend to drag the clods in a V-pattern back into the furrow. Hmmm. For that matter, maybe just a couple loops of chain would do the trick.



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Jeff Hoo

02-03-2003 09:25:26




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 Re: Re: Help on a Home-hacked Acorn Planter in reply to ID-Junker, 02-03-2003 07:20:00  
That's a good idea. Another guy suggested I use a piece of chain-link fence similarly. A tire chain might tend to drag the clods in a V-pattern back into the furrow. Hmmm. For that matter, maybe just a couple loops of chain would do the trick.



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Charles Story

02-03-2003 09:28:40




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 Re: Re: Re: Help on a Home-hacked Acorn Planter in reply to Jeff Hoo, 02-03-2003 09:25:26  
A couple of loops of chain is all I use to cover seed.



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