Pull-Type Cart Takes Weight Off Air Seeder
Ken Prodgers, Blackfoot, Alberta, had problems with his 28-ft. Friggstad field cultivator-air seeder when the weight of the 35-bu. seed tank mounted on it caused the wheel standards to break. Before the breakage he had already been struggling with the fact that the middle section of the cultivator would plant 1/2 in. deeper than the outer wings due to the weight of the seed tank.
To solve the problem Prodgers removed the tank and started pulling a home-built seed cart fited with a 60-bu. tank off an old Massey Harris combine. He mounted the original Valmar air seeder blower on the cart's hitch and mounted a gas engine ahead of the tank. The engine belt-drives the blower as well as a hydraulic pump that drives a pair of 4-in. dia. augers that deliver seed up to a small 350-lb. capacity hopper that's mounted on the center section of the field cultivator and is fitted with the original Valmar seed metering components. An air hose runs from the blower on the pull-behind cart's hitch up to the small seed hop-per.
The pull-type cart mounts on the frame of an old truck and rides on big 11 by 24 tires off a Versatile pull-type combine. A pair of caster wheels mounts under the tank's hitch.
"It pulls easy and does a better job than before because it always seeds at a uniform depth," says Prodgers. "I've used it to seed 500 acres of wheat, oats, and barley with no problems. The small hopper and seeding components on the cultivator weigh only about 600 lbs. compared to 3,000 lbs. for the original Valmar system. I use a 150 hp Allis-Chalmers 8050 tractor to pull it.
"The hydraulic pump is on an electric clutch and the orbit motors on the augers run in sequence. The augers automatically start up whenever the seed level in the hop-per goes down and shuts them off as soon as the hopper is full.
"I spent $320 for the orbit motors. My total cost was only about $500."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Ken Prodgers, Box 119, Blackfoot, Alberta, Canada T0B 0L0 (ph 403 875-8266).
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Pull-Type Cart Takes Weight Off Air Seeder AIR SEEDERS Air Seeders (42B) 20-1-29 Ken Prodgers, Blackfoot, Alberta, had problems with his 28-ft. Friggstad field cultivator-air seeder when the weight of the 35-bu. seed tank mounted on it caused the wheel standards to break. Before the breakage he had already been struggling with the fact that the middle section of the cultivator would plant 1/2 in. deeper than the outer wings due to the weight of the seed tank.
To solve the problem Prodgers removed the tank and started pulling a home-built seed cart fited with a 60-bu. tank off an old Massey Harris combine. He mounted the original Valmar air seeder blower on the cart's hitch and mounted a gas engine ahead of the tank. The engine belt-drives the blower as well as a hydraulic pump that drives a pair of 4-in. dia. augers that deliver seed up to a small 350-lb. capacity hopper that's mounted on the center section of the field cultivator and is fitted with the original Valmar seed metering components. An air hose runs from the blower on the pull-behind cart's hitch up to the small seed hop-per.
The pull-type cart mounts on the frame of an old truck and rides on big 11 by 24 tires off a Versatile pull-type combine. A pair of caster wheels mounts under the tank's hitch.
"It pulls easy and does a better job than before because it always seeds at a uniform depth," says Prodgers. "I've used it to seed 500 acres of wheat, oats, and barley with no problems. The small hopper and seeding components on the cultivator weigh only about 600 lbs. compared to 3,000 lbs. for the original Valmar system. I use a 150 hp Allis-Chalmers 8050 tractor to pull it.
"The hydraulic pump is on an electric clutch and the orbit motors on the augers run in sequence. The augers automatically start up whenever the seed level in the hop-per goes down and shuts them off as soon as the hopper is full.
"I spent $320 for the orbit motors. My total cost was only about $500."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Ken Prodgers, Box 119, Blackfoot, Alberta, Canada T0B 0L0 (ph 403 875-8266).
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