After watching deer, pigs, birds, etc eat seed I spent hours broadcasting by hand, I decided it was time to get more serious about food plotting. I'd seen a few Youtube videos of guys using cut down grain drills and atvs for food plotting and thought that's what I wanted to do. I'd been cruising Facebook Marketplace for a few weeks and this beauty showed up for $1500.
A deal was made and I brought it home. This is a 16 x 6" John Deere Model B grain drill. I used the middle box support as a split line which allowed me to maintain the shaft support bracket for the right half of the grain drill.
For the left half of the grain drill, I grabbed two pieces of 2"x0.25" angle and an extra shaft support bracket to build the new frame support.
I was torn between fabricating the grainbox supports, bearing brackets, axles, wheels, etc and sourcing parts; thankfully, I stumbled across http://burrells.net and sent them an email with a parts list. My neighbor did me a solid and picked up a truckload of parts I needed.
I used the grainbox partition and support straps as hole guides, and drilled the grainbox and installed the supports.
There's two agitator rods in the grainbox; they'll need to be shortened and new through holes drilled for retainer pins.
Once I got everything squared up, I started welding in the new 2x.25" angle frame and frame gussets.
Getting the whole axle and wheel assembly was a little expensive, but it saved me a ton of time trying to fabricate something that may or may not work; all that was required was a hole to be drilled in the frame for a dowel pin on the axle.
I cut down the existing tow bar knowing I'll have to do a custom tow bar for the other half of the grain drill.
Last up, I need to fabricate the box end; I originally planned to use spare box ends, but I think I'm going to grab some 22 gauge sheetmetal, cut, and weld it into place.
Parts List:
ua736m - https://farmpartsonline.com/used-joh...ssembly-a736m/ (SA34M)
A521M - Bearing, agitator rod
B1809M - Partition
S322M - End Box Upper - 2x
left and right wheel assemblies
S316M x 4 - Axle U-bolts
S331M - Grainbox rear strap
S1910M x 2 - Grainbox inside strap
S1898M - Grainbox front strap
B2653M - Hanger for footboard
S2432M - Angle plate for fooyboard hanger
B359M - Top plate for footboard
H210M - Right lower box end
H211M - Left lower box end
A deal was made and I brought it home. This is a 16 x 6" John Deere Model B grain drill. I used the middle box support as a split line which allowed me to maintain the shaft support bracket for the right half of the grain drill.
For the left half of the grain drill, I grabbed two pieces of 2"x0.25" angle and an extra shaft support bracket to build the new frame support.
I was torn between fabricating the grainbox supports, bearing brackets, axles, wheels, etc and sourcing parts; thankfully, I stumbled across http://burrells.net and sent them an email with a parts list. My neighbor did me a solid and picked up a truckload of parts I needed.
I used the grainbox partition and support straps as hole guides, and drilled the grainbox and installed the supports.
There's two agitator rods in the grainbox; they'll need to be shortened and new through holes drilled for retainer pins.
Once I got everything squared up, I started welding in the new 2x.25" angle frame and frame gussets.
Getting the whole axle and wheel assembly was a little expensive, but it saved me a ton of time trying to fabricate something that may or may not work; all that was required was a hole to be drilled in the frame for a dowel pin on the axle.
I cut down the existing tow bar knowing I'll have to do a custom tow bar for the other half of the grain drill.
Last up, I need to fabricate the box end; I originally planned to use spare box ends, but I think I'm going to grab some 22 gauge sheetmetal, cut, and weld it into place.
Parts List:
ua736m - https://farmpartsonline.com/used-joh...ssembly-a736m/ (SA34M)
A521M - Bearing, agitator rod
B1809M - Partition
S322M - End Box Upper - 2x
left and right wheel assemblies
S316M x 4 - Axle U-bolts
S331M - Grainbox rear strap
S1910M x 2 - Grainbox inside strap
S1898M - Grainbox front strap
B2653M - Hanger for footboard
S2432M - Angle plate for fooyboard hanger
B359M - Top plate for footboard
H210M - Right lower box end
H211M - Left lower box end
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