Grasseed with an Amazone

DrDunc

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Livestock Farmer
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Dunsyre
Will an Amazone spreader sow grasseed ?
Its a Z-AM model.
If so what settings?
Thanks.
Yes

Must be absolutely NO WIND, nothing more than a gentle breeze

Sow at 6m intervals. Settings depend upon which discs you have. The disc vane ends need turned up (wee bit at the end which has a bolt for the job)

There's a very good " phone app" called my spreader which gives you all the settings, or post your disc type, desired sowing rate, and usual forward speed, and somebody will provide the right settings for shutter and machine heights?
 
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I stopped using it and converted an old accord seed drill to broadcast seed on so kuchen better
 

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