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shunkfarm

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My nephew and I are putting in some alfalfa at my little farm. He is excited and has the seed ordered to pick up for this weekend. He reserved a no till drill from our county soil and water conservation for this weekend. They bring it out and set it up then retrieve it for $8. acre or minimum of $50.

The guy he talked to said we need a tractor with minimum of 70 HP. This is a 10 foot drill. Neighbor said he pulled it with his 3020 and it was nothing. I have a 460 Farmall that is clean and healthy. It has 15.5 X 38 (40% tread) with fluid, the cast rear centers and a heavy aftermarket 3point hitch. It also has a New Idea loader on it.

My question is, do these things pull that hard? Is the 460 up to the task? My Farmer renter dont think it is enough tractor. He looks at the 460 as a puddle jumper. lol He has offered a 3020 or 4020 whichever is available IF I need it.

I grew up on this 50 acre farm and we had a 13 hoe drill. It pulled very easy and we ran the 77 Oliver in 5th at partial throttle. Is this half again as wide drill that much of an animal to need so much tractor?
Thanks, Jay
 
When we used the one to do our natural prairie I used my 400D. It handled it with no problems. I doubt you will have any issues with the 460.
 
A no-til drill is much heavier and pulls much harder that a hoe drill, but if your field is relatively
flat you should be able to do it.
 
The conservation district here used to have a Vermeer that they rented out. As easy as that one pulled,I never could figure figure out all the hub bub about needing such a big tractor to pull a Deere no til drill. A 460 would have easily pulled that one.
 
I used to drill native grass for the soil conservation district. We had a 10 foot Truax notill drill and a 460 would handle it just fine.
 
Some not till drills, especially the Deere ones, are quite heavy. Ande it isn't neccesarily the horsepower required, but the weight needed- especially on hills. They can push you around in the right
circumstances...
 
The question is what type of notill drill.

Pull type, then you just need enough pull, it likely will work out, even if you end up driving slow or less than ideal.

3pt, that could be a very heavy drill and you won't be able to lift it.

Anyhow, you seem to have a good backup plan, than the fella for having the 3020/4020 available and be sure you can get to one pretty quick if
you need to.

Paul
 
Back in the early 80's I delivered and set up no-till equipment for local soil and water district. Delivered a 10 ft.
Marliss no-till drill to a guy that used a Farmall 460 that was running on 5 cylinders and to my surprise he could pull
it well!
 

I just assumed it is pull type since they are delivering it with a pickup truck. My farmers place is one mile over so it is no problem to run get more tractor if necessary.
I hate borrowing equipment but hopefully that will not be an issue.

I will get pictures!
Jay
 
It should pull it, I have a GT 1006 10' no-till drill I pull with an Oliver 1550 gas and it dose just fine with it. Bandit
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Update. It is a Tye drill. I figured it up and the 460 should weigh 8000+lb. It pulled the drill just fine. I sure knew it was back there! I pulled in 3rd high, low when turning. There are some nice dips at the end of the field and it did fine. I rarely had to use brakes when turning at the ends.
Thanks everybody for your input. I think I would have chickened out without all y'all.

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