Seed plate info
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Topic: Seed plate info
Posted By: Shamrock Farms
Subject: Seed plate info
Date Posted: 08 May 2017 at 8:39pm
| Greetings all. I'm new to the forum and AC equipment. I recently acquired a model 74 planter and am looking for information on seed plates. It came with corn,bean and sorghum plates. I'm wanting to plant a sunflower patch to dove hunt over and am wondering if there is a sunflower plate and/or spacer required since the black oil sunflower seeds are so thin. Any info or help including advice,part numbers and contacts for purchasing these parts is much appreciated. THANKS! |
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 08 May 2017 at 9:40pm
| are those plates the big ones that mount vertical? I have some plates, but will hafta look at them to see what seed they may take. |
Posted By: Shamrock Farms
Date Posted: 08 May 2017 at 9:44pm
| No these mount horizontally and are about 7 inches in dia. The ones that came with it are aluminum but I am not opposed to using plastic ones. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 08 May 2017 at 10:12pm
| I gots skads of those, lemme check |
Posted By: Shamrock Farms
Date Posted: 08 May 2017 at 10:25pm
| Great! I only need 2 since this is a 2 row planter now. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 08 May 2017 at 10:26pm
| I looked on "Lincoln ag" web pages, and the sunflower plates are a lot like the corn plates for flat kernals. do you have the adapters to make the deere style plates work in allis planters? |
Posted By: Shamrock Farms
Date Posted: 08 May 2017 at 10:29pm
| No, sure don't. It only came with the cast aluminum AC plates. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 09 May 2017 at 3:29am
| if you use the deere plastic plates, you hafta have an adapter that goes in the middle. I think I also have some SS plates, and some cast iron ones, i'll look to see what they are for. |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 09 May 2017 at 6:20am
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Big difference in sunflower seeds.Grey stripped are very large the oil type are about half that size.Also been my experience if there are many deer around they clip off the Sunflowers not long after they come up same with Blackeye peas.Broadcasting Buckwheat and Sunn Hemp as a Summer draw will work a lot better |
Posted By: Shamrock Farms
Date Posted: 09 May 2017 at 7:07am
| I'm planning on planting the smaller black oil sunflowers for a dove plot. You are correct that the deer love those new sprouts and I plan on losing a few but hope they won't clean out a couple acres. In past years I've just broadcast the seeds but they were just too inconsistent and mostly overcrowded resulting in smaller heads. The ones that the deer hit still produced heads (actually multiple heads) but were noticeably smaller. |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 09 May 2017 at 7:26am
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When I broadcast seed on seed plots I mix the seed in the fertilizer and can control the amount and thickness of the seed better. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 09 May 2017 at 6:24pm
You can take some bondo, fill the holes in a set of plates, then grind out the holes, to fit your seed. Just use a dremel tool, and grind till the hole fits your average SF seed...
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Posted By: jiminnd
Date Posted: 09 May 2017 at 8:39pm
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I think you can get new plastic ones pretty cheap, Might be the easiest answer.
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Posted By: Shamrock Farms
Date Posted: 10 May 2017 at 5:14pm
| Update: I found a dealer with an old set of plates and a set of spacers that will work. I think they may be the popcorn/sunflower plates that are listed on some charts but can't read the numbers.Also picked up a set of adapters to use the Deere style plates. Just took a few phone calls and a road trip to the dealer. Thanks everybody for the input. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 10 May 2017 at 8:54pm
| new plastic plates are $25. each now. |
Posted By: Shamrock Farms
Date Posted: 11 May 2017 at 6:36am
| I got a heck of a deal then...plates and adapters for $15 but had to drive 115 miles to pick em up. |