CHAPIN 8701B Push Garden Seeder for Row Planting, 20 Seed Varieties

Quality seems really good and assembly was just as the instructions had laid out. It's extremely easy to use and beats doing it all by hand. My old method was placing each seed in the ground by hand which took hours and was brutal on the back and legs. This took me maybe an hour to do 1000 feet worth of pea rows which included troubleshooting and experimentation. The only negative thing I will say is that the seed plate designations are a bit off. I planted purple hull peas which classify as a medium pea to me (largest plate available on this unit) but that plate dropped 4-5 peas in every hole which was entirely too much. I dropped down to small pea which was the next one and I was still placing 3-4 to a hole which is still too many. I ended up using the okra plate which was perfect. Consistently 1 pea with the occasional double pea. But that concerns me because okra seeds are tiny compared to a pea seed. Overall, the functionality was great and I've got a good stand of peas now(a REALLY thick stand for the 20ish feet that I used the medium plate). Only time will tell on how long the little drive belt will last, but it didn't show any signs of wear after planting my garden. Definitely recommend storing it in a shed that keeps it sheltered from the elements though. And will also experiment with adding some weight to the rear of the unit next year to help the rear covering wheel make better contact in the areas where a good bit of grass was still under the soil

I've tried a couple of seeders to seed soybeans into well-tilled northern Michigan light soil with pre-made rows (I have irrigation for this place which is neccessary to grow anything in this soil), and this seeder was best as it seemed to do what I wanted it to do. I'll know more in a couple of weeks when the soybeans come up. I ended up using the disc that said beets, okra, and swiss chard, that had smaller holes than the disc that said beans and small peas, that would hold two soybean seeds at a time. Neither one of these discs were depicted in the user manual, so I hope that you get the beets and okra disc if you're doing soybeans. I found that some of the seeds hopped out of the hopper which I fixed quite well and easily by affixing a plastic top to the hopper with gorrilla waterproof tape, which is strong, sticky, flexible, and well suited for the job, probably more functional than anything they could have produced in the factory. You can see this set-up in the accompanying video.

We purchased to use in our large scale home garden; corn, veggies, sunflowers, pollinators, and herbs. Although most seeds did work well, we ended up having to plant some by hand (all sunflowers) and most of the smaller seeds. It was still extremely helpful and less back breaking but you do have to manipulate some seeds to truly gain all of the benefits. We live in zone 7 of the growing map in the US, with hard red clay as our base soil, rotter tilled with tractor and still had to add some brut strength behind the seeder to actually plant and pull the soil back over.

Buena máquina resistente y cumple con su trabajo , muy bien de precio además

I bought this seeder and was excited to try it out, so I tilled up the garden area and got it ready, read the directions, found out what discs to use for what seed and put the right seed plate in for the seed I was going to plant. I lined up the seeder up to the row I was going to plant, added the seed I was going to plant and started to plant. At first it wasn't picking up any seed, we adjusted the plate, then all it did was dump too, much seed and jam the plate area. I messed with it for a bit and was able to get it up stuck when stared out again the smaller seeds got stuck in the vary bottom of the hopper in a small gab so ended having to plant the rest by hand. So, I must suggest not buying this seeder.

Very disappointed in the operation of this planter. The first time I used the planter was to plant sweet corn. The first planting came up spotty. I blamed the seed. I tilled that planting area down and order seed from another supplier. I just came in from trying to plant the area again and believe I found out why my stand was spotty. The corn plate did not always have a seed in the plate as it rotated in the hopper. I did get the patch planted but had to watch the plate and put a seed in the plate every time the slot in the plate was empty. The pickup plate cups are too small for the sweet corn seed, and the planter does not pickup seed when you are about out on seed. It will leave seed in the hopper when you are about done.

Soil condition is a huge factor in how this will perform. I have rocky clay, the plot in the photo is three years in removing rocks and adding manure and mulch. Any sizeable rocks will stop the seeder, also root clumps from cover crops the tiller didn't break up, that being said I put alot of effort into removing these, I hit some but overall went very smoothly. I planted 1 lbs peaches and cream sweet corn using the corn plate, the first few rows have high density while the last few are sparse and I will likely remove them and replant in a few weeks.

Works great for planting corn 🌽

Broke on first use

Muy buena compra la recomiendo atodos si

Excellent item. All parts included

Planting discs and hardware missing from box , unusable , returned for refund .

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