Easy Way To Calibrate A Drill

Easy Way To Calibrate A Drill DRILLS Drills (42C) 31-2-20 This simple seed calibration tool and chart can help you hit your target seeding rate every time, says Bob DeBrabandere, Woodstock, Ontario, who came up with the idea. You simply attach a flange to one end of a 3-in. inside dia. pvc pipe so it'll stand over one of the runs in your drill. It should stick down a bit so it won't shift out of the way when in use. To use, just fill your seed drill as you normally would, which will fill the tube with seed. Operate the drill long enough to use most of the seed from the tube. Measure the inches of seed used from the tube and use a formula shown on the customized seed chart for your drill, which you order from DeBrabandere, to determine the actual seeding rate. Adjust the drill as required, refill the tube, and repeat the procedure. "It's one of those ideas that's so simple you wonder why no one's thought of it before," says DeBrabandere, who says customers make their own seed tubes with pipe and a toilet flange. To order a chart for grains, just send a check for $15 and tell him the number of runs on your drill. To add a grass seed chart, send an additional $5. The charts give a "rate factor" based on the number of drill runs and the bushel weight of the grain being sown. Using a pocket calculator, you simply multiply the rate factor times the inches of seed used divided by the acreage sown. This will give you the seeding rate in pounds per acre. The acres can be taken from the acre meter on the drill. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bob DeBrabandere, Seed Drill Tube, 754700 Cty. Rd. 555, RR #8, Woodstock, Ontario N4S 7W3 Canada (ph 519 467-5000; seed_tube @sympatico.ca).

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