Best small air seeder

[Hereward]

Going to put a small seeder on the back of my Horsch Terrano for stewardship mixes, which is the best, will be seeding, wild flowers, grasses, legume, wild bird seed mixes etc.

Narrowed it down to Stocks, APV, Opico, Bullock Tillage.

Want a 200 litre hopper, electric fan, electric metering, GPS speed control and electric calibration with digital in cab control box.

So looking at a Stocks Turbo Jet i-Con, APV PS 200 with 5.2 controls, Bullock Tillage SP200. Any others to consider?

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[Warp Land Farmer]

@Robert K had a good one for sale not so long ago, I can’t recall the make tho

 

[Robert K]

Going to put a small seeder on the back of my Horsch Terrano for stewardship mixes, which is the best, will be seeding, wild flowers, grasses, legume, wild bird seed mixes etc.

Narrowed it down to Stocks, APV, Opico, Bullock Tillage.

Want a 200 litre hopper, electric fan, electric metering, GPS speed control and electric calibration with digital in cab control box.

So looking at a Stocks Turbo Jet i-Con, APV PS 200 with 5.2 controls, Bullock Tillage SP200. Any others to consider?

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@Robert K had a good one for sale not so long ago, I can’t recall the make tho

Thank you @Warp Land Farmer

We have a hydraulically driven KRM APV 300 applicator that we would now sell.

Shop Soiled but unused
Complete with mounting plate and various brackets
Control box and cabling
Full coils of pipework & distributing outlets
300 litre hopper

£3250 plus VAT

 

[Robert K]

Pictures @Hereward

 

[debe]

Which will do avadex?

 

[Brisel]

I'm pleased to that Techneat isn't on the list! I had a Terracast V2. A pig to calibrate and never very accurate. Not helped by the rotor turning unevenly, though I believe that this is not common. The one saving grace is having one bigger metering unit and a distributor head you can change to vary the number of outlets. It didn't block much either - units with individual metering units don't fare well with bits of bag blocking that outlet metering roller on small seeds.

 

[Robert K]

Which will do avadex?

The KRM will do avadex

 

[PSQ]

None of the above. Unless it's going to be covering a *lot* of acres, it's best to use whatever drill you have on the farm already and save piddling about with an overpriced PITA seed box. Even if it means carrying the drill above ground, so it's only broadcasting without engaging the soil, kinda stuffed if its a piggy back.

 

[Brisel]

Consider a Vaderstad Biodrill. For some of the stewardship mixes you describe you will only get a couple of acres of seed in the hopper. Around £9k new but plenty of secondhand ones about. 360 litre hopper and a distributor head. A wide selection of metering rollers are available from grass seed to large seeds to slug pellets & much smaller seeds.

 

[Brisel]

None of the above. Unless it's going to be covering a *lot* of acres, it's best to use whatever drill you have on the farm already and save piddling about with an overpriced PITA seed box. Even if it means carrying the drill above ground, so it's only broadcasting without engaging the soil, kinda stuffed if its a piggy back.

Fair point unless it's much narrower than your general purpose drill. For doing grass seeds with a combination I just lift the coulters up to broadcast the seed & have the following harrow just tickling the surface.

 

[Farmerdunk]

We got on well with our opico air seeder 8. Had it on our cousins v form to drill OSR, but stopped growning it a few years ago. Its up for sale if anyone is interested in thinking of buying one.