Handy Catwalk Added To No-Till Drill

Handy Catwalk Added To No-Till Drill DRILLS Drills (42C) 22-3-12 Dave Obrecht modified his Deere no-till drill to make filling seed hoppers easier and safer. It also lets him carry extra carry seed. The Zearing, Iowa, farmer pulls his 3-pt. mounted 20-ft. drill behind a Yetter coulter cart equipped with flat-fold markers. He pulls a commercial two-bar tine tooth harrow be-hind the drill to incorporate seed and redistribute residue. The catwalk on back of the drill is 3-ft. wide and runs the full width of the drill. He built a frame out of 1 1/2-in. sq. tubing and covered it with expanded metal. The catwalk bolts to the top of the drill frame. "It works even better than I'd expected," Obrecht says. "I like having a platform on back that I can fill seed hoppers from. It reduces the danger of falling onto the harrow. And it keeps trash and mud from building up on back of the drill in muddy conditions. "I also use the catwalk to carry extra bags of seed ." He added a commercial extension to each of the two seed hoppers to increase the drill's capacity. "They allow me to handle 15 more bags of seed or about 750 lbs. altogether," he says. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Dave Obrecht, 16114 710th Ave., Zearing, Iowa 50278 (ph 515 487-7447).

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