Metal Cleaning Rings Made For Deere Drill

Metal Cleaning Rings Made For Deere Drill DRILLS North Dakota grain farmer Gene Sickler says that when he needed to replace the worn down rubber cleaning rings on the closing wheels of his 1850 Deere seeder he thought that $25 each for the OEM parts was too steep so he came up with “a better idea” Sickler had his local machine shop cut identical half-moon steel pieces about 1 in wide in the same radius as the outside of the closing wheels “Their CNC equipment cut those pieces out of 3/8-in steel with a nice straight edge ” Sickler says “I mated two of them together to form a perfect circle on the outside edge of each closing wheel ” To attach the metal edges to the wheels he took the rims apart flipped the rubber the opposite direction then spot welded the two half-moon pieces onto the metal wheel to create a new and perfectly circular cleaning edge After each piece was welded in place Sickler smoothed the outside edge of each metal ring so it wouldn’t create excess wear on the disk opener “Now I’ve got durable metal cleaning rings for $9 apiece that should last a lot longer than the rubber ones ” Sickler says Sickler’s metal cleaning edges allow the wheels on his 42-ft wide drill to run the same depth as the rubber edges and they do a better job of cleaning “I left a few of the rubber ones on that weren’t completely worn and the metal seems to do a nicer job and doesn’t collect any soil in tacky conditions ” Sickler says Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Eugene Sickler 10309 23rd St S W Manning N Dak 58642

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