sowing small seeds with a pneumatic........

[Bury the Trash]

Got some Lucerne and Timothy to broadcast sometime well and brassicas i guess, would a pneumatic spreader sow that small a seed reliably ?
Tia.

 

[Chae1]

Got some Lucerne and Timothy to sow sometime ,would a pneumatic spreader sow that small a seed reliably ?
Tia.

Depends on metering unit/wheel.

 

[Lincs Lass]

A microgranular kit will do it ,,we used to spread turnips through a cascad boom spreader

 

[Bury the Trash]

Will be The likes of a Nodet with the small seeds unit, by the way how is the metering unit driven on them?

 

[yellowbelly]

Will be The likes of a Nodet with the small seeds unit,

Done loads like that. We still have a 'vintage' DP12 .
IMHO, there's never been a more accurate spreader.

 

[glasshouse]

Kuhn aero will do it

 

[Bury the Trash]

Done loads like that. We still have a 'vintage' DP12 .
IMHO, there's never been a more accurate spreader.

ideal , but hows the metering driven ? i can't see a wheel

and remember Timothy is really smal l

 

[glasshouse]

Last timothy i sowed was done with 12m bamlett tive

 

[yellowbelly]

but hows the metering driven ? i can't see a wheel

The metering drives off the pto. A small hydraulic ram works a clutch to disconnect the drive for turning on headlands.

and remember Timothy is really small

No problem - you can put Avadex granules on to within an eggcupful an acre

 

[Bury the Trash]

The metering drives off the pto. A small hydraulic ram works a clutch to disconnect the drive for turning on headlands.

No problem - you can put Avadex granules on to within an eggcupful an acre

avdex is a bit bigger tho, lucerne seed i teeny tiny...
.... but the hydraulic drive doesn't follow ground speed to be so accurate, like up and down hill, ?

 

[Bury the Trash]

Depends on metering unit/wheel.

will make sure to get a small seed one, but i want to broadcast grain with it as well, drilling is so yesterday...

 

[yellowbelly]

avdex is a bit bigger tho, lucerne seed i teeny tiny...
.... but the hydraulic drive doesn't follow ground speed to be so accurate, like up and down hill, ?

It's not hydraulic drive - it's mechanical (there's dozens of gear permutations).
Whatever you calibrate it at is for a given forward speed. To be accurate, you have to keep a constant speed.
For small seeds there's a pair of micro granular rollers (one for each boom).The standard rollers do fert and cereals etc.