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SVcummins · Feb 2, 2019

John Deere 251 powr till drill

paul · Feb 2, 2019

Never heard of that.

Sounds and looks like a machine that would make JD a lot of money in coulter blade sales assuming that is what they are spinning.

Yikes.

Paul

SVcummins · Feb 2, 2019

Paul I?d imagine they would go through wear parts especially in a hard old cow pasture

dfarmann · Feb 2, 2019

I had one years ago to renovate pastures. Worked good till the saw blades wore out and Deere quit support of them so no parts avalible. I then removed all the PTO drives and ground engage equipment and bought normal grain drill units and used it that way to interseed pastures.

Still have two pallets of the OEM parts on pallets if anyone is interested.

Bob · Feb 3, 2019

(quoted from post at 00:53:11 02/03/19) I had one years ago to renovate pastures. Worked good till the saw blades wore out and Deere quit support of them so no parts avalible. I then removed all the PTO drives and ground engage equipment and bought normal grain drill units and used it that way to interseed pastures.

Still have two pallets of the OEM parts on pallets if anyone is interested.

"the saw blades wore out and Deere quit support of them"

HUH?

jdparts.com shows the "saw blades" (N156560) to be readily available (but NOT cheap).

SVcummins · Feb 3, 2019

dfarmann Did you buy that brand new ? How well does just a regular grain drill work for interseeding pastures do you frost seed ?

Tx Jim · Feb 3, 2019

There were two models previous to the one pictured (Model 1500 & 1550). Back in the 90's I utilized a model 1500 to overseed several 100 acres. It performed OK but one needed to avoid rocky areas

dfarmann · Feb 3, 2019

No, I didn't buy new, was well worn when I did I had the rebuild plan in my head when purchased. I needed a drill I could get in small areas and gates and this was the ticket.

If I remember correctly I got the ground engagement parts from a grain drill scrape yard in Kansas or Oklahoma, they had designed a row unit much like the IH planter row units with the offset design of the disc openers and a very narrow slot, 1" I think.

I was useing this for high traffic areas, sacrifice pastures and drounded out areas seeding cerial rye. Here in nwIL I have sand for pastures and very easy to drill rye in sand, this was one in the fall.

My pallet of parts are free if you pay the shipping and need/want them, as someday they will go to the scrap yard here.

JD Seller · Feb 3, 2019

You can seed pastures with a regular drill. Just watch and catch the ground when it is fairly soft in the spring and use a small tractor so you do not track the ground up too much. Usually here in Iowa you can find a day or two in March to do the seeding.

LarryH · Feb 3, 2019

it is like most jd eqip.would ---shoulda---coulda

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