Posted by Tree-Farmer on October 15, 2022 at 16:26:29 from (136.32.200.240):
What's your experience with roll pins? Are they cheap for the manufacturer? And do they come out sometimes? More than other fasteners?
I guess I just need to vent. I rented a Brillion SS-10 seeder from the soil and water conservation district. It worked, I got my clover and oats planted last weekend, to put some nitrogen in the soil, ahead of planned corn for next year, in North Missouri.
But, 4 things went wrong. On a fairly new unit. Have you ever had new equipment have multiple failures? Or is Brillion doing something wrong? Design issues or manufacturing problems? Since 2 pins came out and a gear slid over.
1. A roll pin came out, to drive the secondary shaft. This would turn the shaft to make clover drop, in the main boxes. I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't know what to look at, so I drove over 10 acres, thinking the seed wasn't coming out very fast, kept adjusting it to get more, and it actually wasn't planting anything. Now I know what to look at, so it's easy to tell if it's dropping seeds, if the gear is turning. But it seems like this pin should not come out.
2. Another pin came out, the retaining pin to hold the bar in that works kinda like an axle, to let the wheel go down, to allow you to raise the drill. I put a bolt in the end to hold the round bar in and it worked. But I had to stop, go get my jack, jack it up, take off the tire, so I could put it in the right place to push the bar back in. You can see the pin on the other end, outside the washer.
3. This drive chain was rubbing on the roller wheel, pic below. The gear seemed to need to be slid over, to the right in this picture (gear is hard to see in this picture) there was a set screw that held it to the bar. I didn t adjust it, but wondered if it would break the chain.
4. The transport lock bent on my trip home, pulling behind my pickup. It's the black bar on both sides, holds the cylinder extended for travel. I think it s not built strong enough. This is for the wheel that is on the outside. The seeder may be 13 feet wide, so it has to ride off the pavement when I meet someone, the shoulder has lots of bumps.
5. Plus, the seeding guide was waaaay off. It said to set it at 6 to plant crimson clover at 20 pounds per acre, but I had to set it at 8, the max, to get it to drop 20 lbs per acre.
What a pain. But it worked, I think, when I wasn't having problems. Your thoughts?
This post was edited by Tree-Farmer on 10/15/2022 at 04:27 pm.
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