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New Brunswick, Canada | I have looked really hard at this a few different ways. My current plan is to mount a set of wavy coulters at say 6" spacing on a toolbar and mount my 8 ft brillion behind it to keep them in the ground.
marcuswagner - 11/9/2016 11:32
I am looking to build myself a smaller NO till drill. Looking for something around the 6ft range. Has anyone attempted at building their own? I have a few things in mind. Hoping someone out there has done something similar. |
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New Brunswick, Canada | slowzuki - 11/9/2016 12:16
I have looked really hard at this a few different ways. My current plan is to mount a set of wavy coulters at say 6" spacing on a toolbar and mount my 8 ft brillion behind it to keep them in the ground. This isn't really no-till, but more like min till.
marcuswagner - 11/9/2016 11:32
I am looking to build myself a smaller NO till drill. Looking for something around the 6ft range. Has anyone attempted at building their own? I have a few things in mind. Hoping someone out there has done something similar. |
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NW Washington | A toolbar, a few of these Dawn interseeder openers and a small Valmar air box and you would be in business. http://www.dawnbiologic.com/duoseed/
Great Plains, Truax and some others have had small no-till drills on the market for a long time.
http://www.truaxcomp.com/
Here are some other no-till openers made in Canada that might be less expensive than the Dawn units. http://www.khartindustries.com/opener.html
Edited by JohnW 11/9/2016 19:30
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New Brunswick, Canada | Those dawn units look great except 5 of them would probably cost what 15k?
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United States | Get yourself a worn out 12-15 foot drill, and cut it in half. I just sold a 14' Tye drill this summer for a couple thousand. If you'd buy one cheap like that, most of the work would be done, and you'd have plenty of spare parts. |
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central - east central Minnesota - | marcuswagner - 11/9/2016 11:32 I am looking to build myself a smaller NO till drill. Looking for something around the 6ft range. Has anyone attempted at building their own? I have a few things in mind. Hoping someone out there has done something similar. There are several companies that built 6-10 ft no-till drills. Tye, Marliss, Haybuster, United Farm Tools, Sukup, John Deere . . . .. For the money, should consider on of the brands above. Not-till's need weight and good openers to work. Why reinvent the wheel, when you should be able to pick up a used "built" one and go from there ? http://www.tractorhouse.com/listings/farm-equipment/for-sale/list/category/1122/planting-equipment-drills/manufacturer/marliss |
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middle ga | I built one from half of a 15 ft older Great Plains and as said had lots of extra parts left over. Only paid 300.00 for it and after a complete rebuild had around 2500.00 in it. Much less than the 13,000 for a new one. I don't farm lots of acres so it works great for me. It was a year long part time project that turned out better than I expected.
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West Union, IOWA FLOLO Farm 52175 | Sure is nice DAWN puts the list price online.....
Beats guessing....
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West Union, IOWA FLOLO Farm 52175 | Built 30' ft this spring.... 1800 acres with minimal issues
First time I used all new parts.....built several others out of used component
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| Someone already builds one commercially.
TG Schmiser builds a 6'no till drill. Their market is primarily towards vineyards and orchards.
http://www.tgschmeiser.com/products/vineyarddrills/no-till.html
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White Stone, Virginia | http://www.greatplainsag.com/en/products/765/3p606nt |
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New Brunswick, Canada | Thanks for the pricing link. There was a guy here trying to sell used Dawn strip till row units for 5000$ each, I thought it seemed high.
loran - 11/9/2016 18:18
Sure is nice DAWN puts the list price online.....
Beats guessing....
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