Nordsten drill calibration chart

ewald

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Mid-Lincs
I have an old Nordsten box drill - CLE 3.00m - that I use for maize strips. I have never had any calibration info - it arrived with the setting for maize marked on the lid and I have never had to change it.
However, I would like to patch up a bit of barley with it - does anyone have a calibration chart to hand that they could photograph or scan? It will save me a bit of time tomorrow.
Also, there is a high and low gear - how do you change between them? Is it a case of changing the two sprockets round under the cover near the wheel?

Many thanks
 

dannewhouse

Member
Location
huddersfield
don't bother with a calibration chart calibrate it. (chart is miles out and changes miles 1 year to next)

out old SD77 nordsten

calibrate was 63 spins of the handle = 1/8 of acre or 1/20 of a hectare ie spin 63 times weighs 11kg = 88kg/acre

not a bad job drop coulters (4Rclips) put tin under where seed drops the spin handle (I used to do 40 then tip then 23 as was easier to empty than a full 63 spins)
mine had nylon style gears.
and had a chart printed inside lid for hopper?
 

eagleye

Member
Location
co down
from wheel size measure diameter where it runs on ground and multiply by 3.142 (pie x D = circumference)
a 3m drill travels approx 1333m to drill one acre.
divide 1333 by circumference of wheel = number of wheel revolutions for 1 acre
only do 1/10 acre or 1/20 acre
example only
diameter of wheel is 0.6m (0.6x3.142 = 1.885m)
1333m / 1.885 = 707 wheel rev
1/10 acre = 71 turns of wheel
1/20 acre = 35.5 turns of wheel
been using this for over 30 years (i usually use the valve neck as a guide to count wheel revs.
catch seed as described in thread above
 

gloria1

Member
I have an old Nordsten box drill - CLE 3.00m - that I use for maize strips. I have never had any calibration info - it arrived with the setting for maize marked on the lid and I have never had to change it.
However, I would like to patch up a bit of barley with it - does anyone have a calibration chart to hand that they could photograph or scan? It will save me a bit of time tomorrow.
Also, there is a high and low gear - how do you change between them? Is it a case of changing the two sprockets round under the cover near the wheel?

Many thanks
Hi its a bit of an old thread but I've been offered an old norstem selecto magic time drill which I need for game cover maize.i wondered how well it drilled maize,? Thanks
 

ewald

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Mid-Lincs
Obviously it doesn’t drill as well as a precision drill, but perfectly ok for game cover - I shut off every 2nd and 3rd coulter, depth of sowing is a bit variable (spring tine coulters), but most of it seems to emerge
 

gloria1

Member
Obviously it doesn’t drill as well as a precision drill, but perfectly ok for game cover - I shut off every 2nd and 3rd coulter, depth of sowing is a bit variable (spring tine coulters), but most of it seems to emerge
hi my nordsten cle 300 has a gearbox with several gearwheels of large going to smaller size,under a curved lid.
can you please advise me how to set it for game cover maize (very very approximately) if you can recall that, and also how to actually change to the required gear.
I am not looking for precise calibrations and weighing seed etc,,as shown by others ,just a very simple and very rough guide for gamecover maize,thanks very much.
 

David1968

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
SW Scotland
hi my nordsten cle 300 has a gearbox with several gearwheels of large going to smaller size,under a curved lid.
can you please advise me how to set it for game cover maize (very very approximately) if you can recall that, and also how to actually change to the required gear.
I am not looking for precise calibrations and weighing seed etc,,as shown by others ,just a very simple and very rough guide for gamecover maize,thanks very much.
Can't help with a maize setting, sorry. But to change the gears under the curved lid, reach underneath and there should be paddle type handle. Pull that up and that will pull the pin down from whatever hole it's in. Using the paddle handle you should then be able to slide the gears sideways on the shaft and move them up or down between the A and B rows.
If it's not been used for a while the it may need freeing off to slide on the hex shaft.

There should also be another set of C and D gears on the outside to the left of the main gearbox. The handles slide in or out between C1 and C2, and D1 and D2.
 

gloria1

Member
I have an old Nordsten box drill - CLE 3.00m - that I use for maize strips. I have never had any calibration info - it arrived with the setting for maize marked on the lid and I have never had to change it.
However, I would like to patch up a bit of barley with it - does anyone have a calibration chart to hand that they could photograph or scan? It will save me a bit of time tomorrow.
Also, there is a high and low gear - how do you change between them? Is it a case of changing the two sprockets round under the cover near the wheel?

Many thanks
HI any chance you can remember what the maize settings were on the nordsten cle 3.00m lid,??
its for gamecover in due course. so doesnt have to be that accurate,
thanks.
 

Heathman19

Member
Location
Suffolk
Thank you that would be really useful to give me a starting point for getting the drilling approximately right.
Ignore the Utopia, it was very wrong!
 

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