When your hooking up the hydraulics to a tractor, shut the tractor off & wiggle the handle all the way forward & all the way back. That'll relieve pressure on the lines & make it easier to hook up. If your still having issues, hit the center of the connection on your hydraulic hose & that'll relieve pressure there also. But just to be warned, prepare for a possible spray of hydraulic fluid when you hit the center of the connection. Shut the tractor off & wiggle the handle when you unhook & it'll make that easier as well.

Being able to rent that is pretty awesome. Rather than buying a bunch of used stuff, getting it a good working order and planting it in a less efficient manner is a big $ saver. Thanks for the good idea.

Man I remember the day I started out with a no cab tractor it took me about 2 hrs and I was looking for a cab tractor and so I tryed a lot of tractors new untill I got smart and went with a john deere 5525 cab tractor I purchased new in 2007 and haven't had any issues still runs like new worth the money on a small farm. Have a good day I enjoy watching you work.

It is less expensive to rent the planter than to try and purchase one. Usually you don't plant hay fields but about every five years. Good to see you looking at the long range plan.

I love your tractor and your videos.

Thanks for sharing Evan and Rebecca, hope your hard work pays off in lots of hay and grass growing. Good luck with the extension office and the amount of time it took you with all the time on the planter. Stay safe and keep up the fun around there. Fred.

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You probably don't read comments on your older vids but... There's a reason farmers wear wide brim (straw) hats! Especially if you don't have tractors with cabs!! ;+) Enjoying your vids, great to see a couple working so successfully together on their dreams!

Your a hard worker and really stick-to-it >..........Good fortune.

It's so interesting, hoping this and other videos give me a boost to do something on the 10 acres farm land I got . Thanks to KZfaq and you for sharing.

Looks like you were putting all your seed in the small seed hopper alfalfa,clover etc . Large seed like orchard grass goes in the larger seed hopper . Good luck grass hopper .

Spread straw on the grass seeding around the house. Holds moisture and prevents erosion. Really helps.

Really enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work.. 👍

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I like hearing that old equipment while it is working, not so much the music. Good video though....

When you rent those pieces of equipment, you most often should do some maintenance when you first get them to your house; it wont be any major repairs but you want to check all of the seed metering cups and the drop tubes to make sure none of them are clogged with old seed or have nests from wasps or other bugs in them that can keep the seed from flowing out. That seed drill looked like it had hoppers for 3 different types of seed, 2 large grain bins and 1 small seed bin. Part of your problem with getting the seed down is you were using large grain in the small grain bin. It will go down, but it may have crushed some seed- I honestly don't know there. you probably could have put each of those seeds in its own bin hopper and run it like that. The problem most people end up having with those machines is they put down too much seed before they check it the first time and have emptied everything for 5 acres on 1 acre. Look for a local farmer who plants a wheat field to and ask them if they can show you how to do the maintenance and set up on one of those machines if you can ever catch one of them. The couple hours you spend with them will save you a ton of money and you may make a friend.

greetings; when i was game hunting, i used avon "skin so soft" astringent. it worked very well and smelled as such that deer did not spook. the only problem was if you are working hard and sweating profusely, you have to reapply as it will dilute. the gnats and mosquitos will still fly around but will not light on you. be sure your wife knows what you are doing so you do not create any suspicion......g

Did a good job Evan. Looks like you could use a weed whacker around your house.

Just an idea you can buy a small electric concrete mixer from Harbor freight its light and portable... great for making concrete fence post or mixing small batches of seed... I used mine for mixing wet feed for my hogs...and making fence post. .I fed my hogs wheat middling would put the mixer close to my pen troughs and fill what I needed and added water turned it on and soaked the feed & mixed

AWESOME VIDEO

We used an old hand turn cement mixer on the farm planting legumes on the hills. Worked well.

I don't know much about renting machinery...but I expected you to be charged so much more to rent it. Just now starting to watch your videos...Enjoying them very much!! Pretty home and land!!

Nip down to your local builders merchants, and buy a small electric cement Mixer. this if kept clean, could be useful for all sorts of ideas! Have a great day.

Tape the lid on can and roll it around.

That drill has different compartment for each type of seeds and you can adjust each kind.

cement mixer pretty good

Far better to have to go over field twice rather than running out of seed when you only covered 1/2 the field Wonder how I know this!

Put the alfalfa in the small box in back like you did & the grasses in the big box. 1 trip and you're done.

Always shut the tractor off and relieve the pressure before hooking up hydraulic hoses!

Great they have the drill for rent, clover helps with nitrogen.

Just wondering, if you have a sanitary pipe running underground to your pond, you may find it hard to grow grass over it. If that's the case, covering your sanitary line with 2" of foam board insulation, may solve the problem.

The small seed hopper on the drill should handle the various grasses and alfalfa just fine. The only problem is the various densities of the different seeds.... The densest seed you have is the alfalfa

i hope it all gos well for you

Might consider using a concrete mixer to mix the seeds.

How did this turn out? Also did you pull that drill down the hwy/road w/your truck? Didn't know they put hwy tires on them, that the same for balers too?

I use a vanilla extract and water mixture to keep the gnats away.

Get some frogs for those gnats! LOL

Can you use your cement mixer to mix your Grass.

Put it in the back of your pickup and stir it with a shovel.

do you use talc for lubrication? do you treat your seed for early immersion/germination

I know this is an older video but every time my friend rented a drill it needed some checking out before use. The drops tended to get clogged. That might be your problem.

Are you putting any type of started fertilizer or nitrogen on the seed after put it down?

Try a cement mixer !

Question did you ever get the steering fixed on the case tractor? Enjoy watching your videos

Learn to Dre’s we used to be on the tractor 14 to 16 hrs

Can you lay too much seed? If so, how does that manifest?

Get a mosquito magnet it’s a great thing works for more then mosquitoes

Use Avon skin so soft dry oil stops the gnats

So when you where done did you get back to the 85% setting mark it was on when you got it or higher? Good news is if you use it again you now know where to set it to do it in one pass.

I would let it reseed it's self the first year and not cut it until late fall.

I use a wheelbarrow and a shovel, or my hand. To mix seed. At first I was scratching my head thinking, why would they charge per acre, well if you have to go over it 6 times 😂😂😂

How did that mixture work out for you?

What kind of seed do you plant

Unfortunately these ag extension rental drills are not maintained as well as they should be which may be a lot of the reason it was a problem getting seed drop performance

I was wondering why you didn't use your concrete mixer the same way you made your feed up in or use a top and spread it out and kept on folding it over each other

If the setting is not right then they need to make adjustments on the payment.

I thought you had a cement mixer.

Cement mixer if you have one

mays u cooper for the nats...get you one of the smelly things that the wife put in dryer with clothes..place it under your baseball or other cap with a little protruding out. nats dont come around. It works for me and friends...enjoy your programs.

Is the drill only for big tractors or can it be used on a 3032 John deer also? Thank you

do you have a video on how this turned out

Buy replanting several times over the top of already planted seed, wouldn't the disks damage your previous work???

Covering grass up with soil I’m told is counter productive as grass seed needs sunlight to germinate. I stand to be corrected on this.

try using a concrete mixer..

How much for 1 bag of alfalfa and how much for 1 bag of orchard grass sir please tell me and please tell me where do you buy it sir

Man that thing is little I work for a man that had a 20foot one now that was a drill I would go around and no till land for people and that land you burn off I would had drill it if you would have seen some hills I been you would day I am crazy but that drill is to have to turn over when it is down so go drill it.

So was the cost of the seed drill 3x as much as you thought since you ran it 3x over field?

What HP tractor is that? I am wondering how much HP is required to drive one of these.

Where did you buy alfalfa, orchard grass, Timothy grass, rye grass, Bermuda grass sir

You might have benefited from a dust mask.

Lol.you do realize it separates back out in drill .you can mix till your arms fall off

Sooooooooooooo - what was the result after a year?

Any starter fertilizer ? Thanks.

Well do something

mays cooper

The rental for that drill is LOW. Try buying one and you will realise what a bargain it is.

Did coke sponsor your video?

you should’ve just fertilized your field

I rented one what a piece of shit up down side to side still not enough seed

you are spending far to much money to plant your hay field after all its only three acres ,I would just get whats called a muck spreader and use your compost on the field use what you got from your animals .