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| Anyone have much experience with these drills?? Looking to add a 30ft to 40ft drill with 6" to 7.5" spacing for small grains seeding and possible alfalfa seeding if I can find one with grass or alfalfa boxes. I use a 20ft JD 520 model with 6" spacing now. Need to cover acres faster so looking for a bigger drill. Wanted to get others opinions on these older drills if they are worth looking at? |
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Shelby, MT | why not get another 520 and pull them both at the same time? The 9400 hoe style is a good box drill.
Edited by MTfarm 5/12/2014 23:03
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Sunburst Montana | All three are good drills but I would look for the 9400/9450. I think the 9350s used the same style shank as the LZBs. |
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Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | We have a 40' set of 9400 6" spacing disk drills. They work fine, though are a little cumbersome to transport. I was looking at smaller drills several years ago when this set became available locally at a good price. It is nice to cover 40' per pass, and now would be hard to go back to a smaller drill.
It is very rare to find an older grain drill set over 20' wide with small seed boxes here.
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nw MN | If I were buying a press drill I would be looking at a Great Plains, probably like a 3s-3000. It has individual press wheels attached to the opener, much better depth control than one gang of openers that just go as deep as you have tilled. They are a front fold so you don't have to deal with a transport.
Something like this:
http://www.tractorhouse.com/listingsdetail/detail.aspx?OHID=8586019 |
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Ns/Tr co. Ks | No email or location available for you. You looking for hoe or disk opener?
Edited by 4x2188 5/13/2014 08:04
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Eastern ND | The 9350-9450 drills are basically the same. Poor transporting, difficult to clean out, low capacity, hard to fill, and are getting kinda old and rare in good shape. That said, I would go with 9450's. The boxes are mounted higher so much easier to change the disks and scrapers, newer ones had the same openers as 455's-- no bearing rivited into the opener disk. That was a nice improvement-- much cheaper to put on new opener disks. The down pressure is much better on the 9450's also. Otherwise they are the same drill. My choice for that style of drill would be a 455 folding drill. Easy to transport. Easy to back into the storage shed. Plus it will do a better job of depth control because the depth wheel is mounted on the opener. The 9000's are poor in that area. Good Luck. |
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| I don't need a drill for no-till applications. Right now the transportation isn't an issue for the drill but I could see potential cover crop custom acres so ease of use in transport would be nice. I would like this unit mainly for seeding cover crops, small grains, and alfalfa if possible. I'm not sure if I can find a seeder that can do all applications...??? I run a 12ft Brillion for alfalfa seeding and I need to find a better solution to get across my acres faster but don't want to lose the stand the Brillion does. I have never been around a hoe drill with the shank style openers. I would prefer a disc drill but open to other ideas if they work. I know the JD 455 are a descent drill and I'd like to stick with JD drill over other due to parts availability. Should I be looking at 6" or 7.5" spacing air seeder instead? Can air seeders seed alfalfa too? Only a few guys with air seeders in this area and just for soybeans. |
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ND | Have a 30' 9300 with JD transport, in gumbo ground with hyd cylnders set max down to get in ground 1.5 to 2.5" but in sandy ground you'd have to pull up settings, no hyd down pressure, so so drills but they do work but for a seed stand in wheat, a JD 1990 or 1850 thro 90's are much better or 455. JD has a few drills out there with a grass box on the front of main drill box. JD transport is only 17' wide down the road. 9400 drills have a heavier hyd lift system than the 9300/9350. 9300's are all grain, 9350's are seed/fert. 9400's came with the two options but only the single numbering system-9400. Know of a JD 9300 40' all grain with JD markers & JD transport for $6000.00 |
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nw MN | Another option for the small seeds might be to get a Gandy or Valmar air applicator box. We have one on a field cultivator and have used it to seed grasses and canola before. You could mount it on whatever you want. |
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ND | The 9300/9350, & the 9400 came either 6" or 7" spacing. |
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JD Grain Drills 9300, 9400, 9450 series??
