A buddy told me how to calibrate my drill and "pretend" to seed with it, to figure out what was what.
Here is what has happend:
I did my math, and if this is right, for seeding 2 bushels to the acre, I should be putting on a pound of oats for every 622 square feet (or very close).
Next I went, and figured out that for every rotation of the rear tire (only doing half of the drill) I was seeding 21 square feet. Okay, so 21 square feet times 29 is 609 square feet!
SO, now I put oats in the hopper, and closed the flutes all the way. Jacked the drill up, engaged it, and turned the right wheel 29 revolutions. THEN I went and collected all of the oat seed that was on the tarp and measured it.
In theory, if I was set where I needed to be, then it should have been 1 lb of oats, or very close, right?
Well, it was 2 lb's EXACTLY. So it is seeding out twice as much as it should be, on the fully closed setting. Now what?
As far as I can tell, there is no way to close it down more, but I will continue trying to mess with it...
Anyone have any advice? Maybe just leave it and put twice as many oats on? Will need more seed if I do that though...
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