A Good Calibration video for Great Plains / Land Pride or Genesis drills.

[Foggy47]

I was just surfing about you tube and ran into this well put together video on calibration. Thought I would share.

 

[Bill]

Glad to know I’m not the only one who doesn’t crank it 900 times.

 

[Foggy47]

Glad to know I’m not the only one who doesn’t crank it 900 times.

Yep, I don't do that either. (I'm holed-up at home recently due to my wife's recovery from some surgery.) I like "cliff notes" versions of doing this stuff.

I did a little math today and made a worksheet to make quick work of calibrating my New (to me) Great Plains 3P-500 drill. This same worksheet format could work for other widths too, but you need to do a little math to convert some of the data. Anyway.....thought I would show how easy this is when I use all seven drop tubes and catch the seeds in catch bins I locate under the openers. (I uses some of those Rubbermaid "under the bed" plastic storage tubs for this purpose.) No fooling around with tarps or plastic bags, etc. And as a bonus you can see if the seeds are dropping equally from the openers. Easy / Peasy / Real World stuff. (I tried to provide the actual document but could not do so....therefore the pics). I like to save my seed rates on these worksheets making it easy the next time a similar mix is used.

I got about 10 different odd sized, plots that I have calculated the acreage on. I"m going to compare the meter on the new drill to those plots as I plant this year.....and refine my acreage over time and record those plot sizes in a chart. This makes it easier to determine how much seed to mix for "x" number of plots to be seeded. Some of those plot sizes have been a moving target as they became developed.

 

[Bill]

Not sure what your using for a scale but for the small seed I use a digital kitchen scale from Wally mart.

 

[Foggy47]

I bought a small battery powered scale that can weigh in grams, ounces or lbs. Got it at Amazon for about $12. The tare feature is also good. I use a plastic coffee can for my weigh pan. Works pretty slick.

I like having a known format and a worksheet like that shown. I dont have to think so much when doing this job. Eliminates some mis-calculations, etc.