A New old Air-Seeder

Concord on the auction lot

Another view

Packer Tires

Air Cart

Seeder at the farm

Seeder and shed

Rear angle view of the cart and tool

Filter Basket

Parked for leveling

The air-seeder on the site of the machinery consignment auction in Havre, MT.

Frontal view of the seeder. It is high and wide and will need to make a 230 mile trip from Havre to my farm.

The tires on the seeding tool are in rough shape. The rear tires carry a good share of the weight of the tool. After I purchased the seeder, I bought a complete set of radial car tires for the center section packers and four new tires for the front tires on the center section. My son went through and replaced questionable bearings and re-packed all the wheel bearings that would be used on the transport tires before we started for home.

Hydraulic fan 150 Bushel 2 compartment cart.

Safely home with the rig. March 2005

I hired an implement dealer from Havre, MT to pull the seeder and cart home. I acted as rear flagger for the trip.

The rig as it looked from the rear.

I cut and formed baskets for the cart fill openings. They serve to keep lumps of fertilizer or other objects large enough to plug the seeding runs from entering the tank.

The first spring I used the tool, I didn't know how to level it. Research during the summer convinced me that one does not level an implement with phased depth control cylinders by using stop collars on the rams. It is set on planks here, for gauging and adjusting level for each section.