He Uses Combine To Drill Fill Soybean Seed

He Uses Combine To Drill Fill Soybean Seed COMBINES Conversions 18-5-33 One problem with drilling soybeans is the time it takes to fill the drill with seed. Chuck Weeks, Sharon, Wis., solved the problem by using his combine as a "drill fill" for his Deere 30-ft. no-till drill. He had a flexible tube made out of canvas (10 ft. long, 8 in. dia.) that straps onto the end of the unloading auger on his Case-IH 1660 combine. "It's an inexpensive way to handle bulk soybean seed," says Weeks, who has used the system for two years. "My only cost was $35 for the canvas. It would take 80 bags of soybeans to fill the drill and a lot of labor and time. It takes only three minutes to load the drill with the combine. "I operate the unloading auger with the combine at idle speed. I installed slide plates on the cross auger at the bottom of the grain tank so the auger doesn't fill the drill too fast. One advantage is that the driver sits up high and has a good view of the drill as it's being filled. I can load seed on-the-go. If one drill hopper is getting full I can squeeze off the end of the canvas and hove it over to the next hopper. Weeks used an old semi truck tarp to make a water tight cover for the grain tank so that he can leave the combine in the field all the time. He uses a 14-in. wide rubber belt elevator to keep seed from breaking as it's unloaded from a gravity wagon and into the combine's grain tank. He paid $1,000 for the conveyor. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Chuck Weeks, 22727 Burr Oak Road, Sharon, Wis. 53585 (ph 414 736-9165).

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