Home made direct drill

[farmgineer]

Anyone done the above?

Currently the costs of buying one and the amount I want to use it for just don't add up. Has anyone tried to make one? Or had anyone any tips on how they're used so that I could work out which bits need to be adjustable.

I just want to be able to DD some alternative grass seed and maybe some root stuff into PP to try and rejuvenate it and get it going a bit more.

I have an old cultivator and a seed drill that may come in useful as donors. Was thinking of using some old plough wheels to slit the ground... But I need to find some of those first

 

[Bury the Trash]

Direct tine drill build

As a number of you have seen i thought i would post some pics of my direct tine drill build. Firstly some reasons behind it, 1. I wanted to have a go at direct drilling, having done some scratch till for the last 15yrs our soils are so much better than trying to plough then ph 2 or 3 time. So...

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[farmgineer]

Nice one! Did try a search but found nowt, need to learn how that bit works

 

[sgoti]

im in the middle of macking one out of mf30 corn drill. i have cut the seed box off and going to mount a fiona pigy back drill on it. its still in the early stages yet and havn't had time to do much with it lattely. i will put some pics up on here in a few weeks time

 

[Shutesy]

Nice one! Did try a search but found nowt, need to learn how that bit works

If you need to search the forum click on the magnifying glass in the top right, ignore the search box, click advanced search and then use the search box labelled 'Google Search', works far better!

 

[Kevtherev]

You can buy a Moore base unit them mount your own drill on top.
Something I’ve always wanted to do is build my own disc type drill.
(No time)

 

[MrNoo]

Just buy an old Massey 130 direct drill!!??

 

[Nearly]

You can buy a Moore base unit them mount your own drill on top.
Something I’ve always wanted to do is build my own disc type drill.
(No time)

I've got all the bits here. Still no time.