Truax flex II drill
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These are pretty light machines. I can move it by hand on concrete if someone sits on the plank on the back. They are ruggedly built and there isn’t a whole lot to break that you couldn’t fix in the field though.
In my experience, you’ll have a tough time choking down the clover box enough to interseed an existing plot, but you can do just fine mixing it with the grains, or adding some more seed to bulk up the mix in a pure clover planting.
If you’re doing native grass, order it trashy if you intend to use the native box. These drills were designed back when native grass seed has simply harvested and not cleaned. There’s 5 settings on the native grass box and each increase doubles the seeding rate of the previous. Switchgrass goes in the clover box.
The depth bands on the openers make seeding depth just about dummy proof though, and I know folks that plant clovers and large-seeded summer annuals with it.
You will need to calibrate it by hand, as they don’t have much of a cheat sheet in the manual. Then just write the settings inside the lid of the respective box with a sharpie.
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In my experience, you’ll have a tough time choking down the clover box enough to interseed an existing plot, but you can do just fine mixing it with the grains, or adding some more seed to bulk up the mix in a pure clover planting.
If you’re doing native grass, order it trashy if you intend to use the native box. These drills were designed back when native grass seed has simply harvested and not cleaned. There’s 5 settings on the native grass box and each increase doubles the seeding rate of the previous. Switchgrass goes in the clover box.
The depth bands on the openers make seeding depth just about dummy proof though, and I know folks that plant clovers and large-seeded summer annuals with it.
You will need to calibrate it by hand, as they don’t have much of a cheat sheet in the manual. Then just write the settings inside the lid of the respective box with a sharpie.
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TreeDaddy
5 year old buck +
812 I assume? 8’ers are ~16k new. 20 acres is nothing on a drill, probably no paint missing yet. Thats less than a full day of planting. I guess anything less than new retail should be considered fair on your end, just depends on how good a deal you’re after. Truax can probably confirm the SN if you have doubts about the acres.
Make sure it will go through your gates. They tow close to 11’ wide and aren’t much fun to take down the highway.
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Make sure it will go through your gates. They tow close to 11’ wide and aren’t much fun to take down the highway.
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