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modified Portable Vacuum Speeds Up Cleaning of Seed Drill Hoppers

Seed drill hoppers have to be cleaned between seed lots. Sometimes, more seed may be put into the hoppers than is necessary to sow the beds. If an appreciable amount of seed is left at the end of a run, removing the seed from the hoppers is easier than running it through the spouts into containers. At the James W. Tourney Nursery, Watersmeet, Mich., seed drill hoppers are cleaned with a small auto hand vacuum cleaner fixed with a homemade coneshaped extension tube attachment (fig. 1). The $9.95 hand vacuum plugs into the cigarette lighter of the tractor. Tree seed is sucked from the hoppers, while the seed drill is stopped on the seedbed between lots or at the end of a run.


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Author(s): Paul Riekki

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 22, Number 1 (1971)

Volume: 22

Number: 1