Home-Built Seed Cart

Home-Built Seed Cart PLANTING EQUIPMENT Accessories 22-1-3 Home-Built Seed Cart Follmer uses a home-built 200-bu. seed cart to fill the planter. It's equipped with a miniature "grain leg" specially designed for gentle handling of soybean seed. The leg has a 6-in. wide rubber belt on which are mounted 5-in. wide, 3-in. high plastic buckets spaced 6 in. apart. The leg is powered by an orbit motor mounted on top of the leg. The motor is turned on or off by an electric solenoid valve with the switch mounted on the end of a 4-in. dia. plastic telescoping spout. The spout telescopes from 8 to 14 ft., allowing Follmer to fill all of the planter's seed boxes from one location. The cart is divided into two compartments, each with small round inspection windows. There's an electric flood light on the side of the cart to assist in night filling. "In the rush to bring bulk seed handling onto the market, no one has thought of using a bucket elevator on a seed cart. It makes sense because that's what seed companies use to clean and package seed," says Follmer. "It's much simpler than using augers or rubber conveyor belts. Belts shoot seed out too fast and are too heavy to lift. Augers equipped with steel or brush flighting tend to damage the seed." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Richard Follmer, Rt. 1, Box 17, Hudson, Ill. 61748 (ph 309 454-1564).

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