Plot Planting Equipment ??

Looking for information on what is generally being used for plot planting. Are you guys generally using a drill or are you broadcasting?
I only plant approximately 5 acres and have been using a couple of 4-wheelers to do the job (no real farm equipment here). I till with a custom made disk/tiller for the wheeler and then drag with a custom made drag for the wheeler. I roll/compact with a store-bought roller and I generally broadcast every/all types of seed. I can get it into the ground with the drag, but I know I’m wasting seed and have had some troubles with some of the annuals this way.
My reason for asking about the drill is that I have a winter project in mind. I am thinking of picking up a very old wheat drill (steel wheels and all…) and then possibly converting it into two separate drills to pull behind the wheelers (one to keep and one to sell). Anyone ever attempt this? Will this type of drill work for the larger annual types of seeds?
Any thoughts – pro or con? I assume I can almost build one from scratch if I wanted in the 4 long months I live in the garage.

I think a drill or even a corn/soybean planter would be the ticket. It would take the gueswork out of seed lbs/acre unlike a broadcaster. Other than a tractor w/a 6′ tiller my equipment is much like yours. Backpack spayer, chunk of chainlink, harrow drag, steel lawn roller, push broadcaster and hand broadcaster. A 5 acre plot would be out of the question w/my equipment. Good luck and go for it. It would be cool to see some progression pics.

There are plenty of farmers that use grain drills for planting soys, not sure about corn though. Sounds like a good project to take on and add to your plotting equipment.

My dad and I bought a 2 row corn planter that works really slick for us…it’s a three point attachment though. I’m sure that you can find pull behind planters too that would work with an atv.

We have had a few hundred acre hobby beef farm for the last 19 years. Generally, only having up to about 50 head. You can get a lot of equipment for the right price, if you have patience. Auctions are tough, because normally someone will get stupid and over bid. Seems like every town has a “Town Crier” that knows everyone’s business. They can usually find you a great deal on anything if your on their good side. But I do most of my work with the big artillery. If I am just doing little stuff like 100,000 sqft or less, I use the ATV for broadcasting and pulling a home made drag made of fencing.

I like your idea of cutting a drill in 1/2. I am assuming it is ground driven? I think it would work great for small grain and soybeans. If it has a grass seeder attachment you will be able to seed your clover and brassicas also.

The drill sounds like a great idea. As mentioned, a grass seeder is icing on the cake. Soybeans grow well when drilled, but it wont do your corn. We do all of our planting with various sized broadcast seeders. From a small quart size to a 4-wheeler mounted broadcast seeder. The only thing we don’t broad cast is our corn and beans; we got an old 6 row airseeder converted to a 4 row. Sounds like you are pretty skilled in the fabrication department… If thats the case you could pretty much build your own little plot master style implement out of half an old drill