I realize this was made a while ago, but fyi you can run the APS1572 without seed in it. There is a removable pin in the gear on the end of the cultipacker shaft. The pin has a push-button release, just push it in and pull the pin out (you'll likely have to take the weight off the cultipacker first), The cultipacker is what drives everything, so pulling the pin disengages the chain that drives the seed cup shaft and allows using the seeder to just till, by shortening the top-link, or to just cultipack by lengthening the top-link, or both by setting up the 3-point the same as when normally seeding. It is a fantastic feature. I've used it for many things besides seeding. It weighs 1300 lb, so makes a great cultipacker. Sometimes I will set it up to till and run over a pasture to be overseeded several times in both directions, than put the pin in and seed. I believe that increases germination rate by dethatching and increasing seed-to-soil contact. I've even used the cultipacker to roll fresh gravel on my driveway and simply as ballast for front loader work. I use it more without the pin in than with it in.

thanks for the video! you just confirmed everything I've been looking into.

Great video as always! Thanks for answering the important questions that’ll decide on my next purchase. Always nice to hear real world perspective from a professional.

Signed papers on mine this morning. Going to pick it up tomorrow, it does have a spiked rear roller but for the price the dealer had it at, I wasn’t going to be too picky. Thanks for the video!!

Bought my aps1572 this summer. Bought it to overseed my lawn and also foodplots. Works great for both. I found with the food plots it worked betted to run a disk first then seed. If you don’t want to run a disk first then set the front rollers to the most aggressive setting and make sure the grass is cut real short. I just installed a small seed box this weekend to mine. My yard is Bermuda grass so I needed the small seed box

Hey man, I run a Deere 323d tracked skid steer and I'm looking to do some no till food plots for a few customers. What seeder can I get/modify to attach to my machine and get close to a no till drill set up?

can you plant millet with this seeder..thank you

You keep saying natives What does that mean?