Hey I want to talk to you today about our Hoss Seeders.
Our Seeder Attachment we've had out for about three years.
And our new stand-alone Seeder we just came out with this year.
Both of them have the exact same hopper
and use the seed plate system. The difference is in the cover wheel
on the Seeder Attachment and then also on the opener.
The Seeder Attachment has this spiked up, large roller here.
And it attaches itself to the Wheel Hoe so you
so you don't have to have a complete Seeder.
You can take this and put your other attachments on there. Also it has a shoe opener on it.
Our stand-alone Seeder has two 15 inch steel wheels.
It has a rolling coulter design opener right here.
And these rolling coulters have sealed bearings in there
so they can roll, open up the seed furrow, and the seed drops in there.
And both of them have a cover chain
A little different configurations on the openers,
but the seed hopper and plates are all the same.
Now we want to talk about our Seed Plates a little bit today and how you would customize them.
When you buy either one of these,
you get a nice Hoss sack and your six Seed Plates that comes with both of these Seeders are in here.
Also, your Seeder Quick Reference Guide.
Now right here is your six Seed Plates that standard comes with both Seeders.
These six Seed Plates that you see right here is what will come in the bag
with a Seeder Quick Reference Guide
with either Seeder, the stand-alone or the Seeder Attachment.
And with the Seed Plate #1
this is for collards, turnips, all your small seeds here.
You turn the Seed Plate Reference Guide over, it shows you
#1: turnips, mustard, rutabaga. Now if you were to happen to get some coated seed or anything like that,
you may have to drill these holes out a little bit.
But you always want to check and make sure those seeds freely go through those holes.
And we'll cover that a little bit more in depth in a minute.
So you've got six Seed Plates that's going to cover a variety of different seeds.
And the spacing on these is dictated by how many holes are in the plate.
So you don't have to worry about sprockets or changing gears out or anything on your Seeder.
You can change the amount of holes that's in this plate to
change your spacing.
To give you an example, this Seed Plate right here is going to plant about a little over 3 inches apart.
This seed plate right here
is going to plant a little over two inches apart.
So every time our Seeder travels 19 inches,
this Seed Plate is going to make one revolution.
So you divide 19 by however many holes here
to get the spacing you want. We made that simple because a lot of people like to plant on
different spacings.
And this gives everybody an option to have their own type of spacing.
For general rule, we laid out what we thought would work here.
But there again we'll cover again in a minute how you can change that.
On the #5 plate right here,
we've got that down for small beans and peas.
And the #6 plate, we've got that down for
medium beans, peas and field corn. Now the problem is a lot of these different seeds --
and we're going to talk today about bean seeds.
There's a lot of variation in the sizes of these seeds.
So we've got five common bean varieties right here
and you can tell there's a lot of variation in seed size.
Here's probably one of the smallest and here's one of the biggest. There's a good bit of difference there.
Now this smaller one will work fine in our stock seed plate.
You see it drops down in there and turns fine.
So it will work fine in that situation. If you want to plant some of the larger beans,
then you're going to have to either drill
your #6 plate our or either make you another one starting from scratch with a blank.
Either one doesn't take very long to do and it's real easy.
We put these holes on the small side when we talk about beans because
you can always make a hole bigger
but you can't make a hole smaller. So that's the way we do that.
So these small ones work fine.
The larger ones, see there, won't fit down in there. It's going to give you some problems. So this is what you do.
You take something like a step drill bit
or you can use a regular drill bit.
I use the step drill bit because it's real easy to
make a hole bigger without having to change bits or anything.
And I made this #6 here with bigger holes to accommodate these red kidneys.
And you can see there, they fit in there fine.
Now that seed needs to be able to lay flat in there and it needs to be able to spin all the way around.
So the biggest seed that you've got will fall in that hole.
Now these are no longer going to work in that big Seed Plate because you're going to be
planting three or four of those at a time.
So if you plant different varieties of beans, you may need to consider having two or three
different #6 Seed Plates.
And some of them with bigger holes to accommodate the bigger bean size you want to plant.
So I take the step drill bit here
and I made me a plate to plant these bigger beans.
Also you could take our
1/4" blank and make you a seed plate.
All you do is put it on the back side of your #6 where your holes already are.
Mark those holes.
And you just take your step drill bit and drill them out
and you've got you another Seed Plate there. This is a machinable type plastic
and it drills out real easy. You may have to take your pocket knife out
and just run around the outside there to get the burrs off.
We sell these blanks and our replaceable Seed Plates very reasonable
Because we realized that a lot people plant different varieties
and you may have a need for several different blanks or several different extra plates
to plant everything that you prefer. We sell the six plates as a general rule and then
you can kind of go from there.
So there you go. There's a #6 Seed Plate that's stock, and here's #6 Seed Plate that's been drilled out
to accommodate something like the red kidney bean.
We make these plates affordable, we make them easily customizable, so that you can plant different varieties.
There you go. Thank you.