oliver superior grain drill

drug my dads old steel wheeled grain drill out today ,  gotta love steel wheel , nobody burrows it and they are never flat.  anyway i see the double disc openers are sticking and probably need some freeing up.   now dad showed me ten years ago how to take the nut off the disc by putting  a wrench on it and giving it a good whack then unscrewing it.  i cant remember then does the disc come off to clean out the old grease?  going to tackle it thursday just looking for someone that has a better memory than me.   ( i am sure dad is sitting on his cloud with my uncles laughing that i didn't pay attention better)

Edited by farmer0_1 - 06 Apr 2011 at 10:34pm

thanks.  i have a second one i guess i will start parting out.

no problem mine did the same thing but my brother has the one i am parting out .  let me look thru my photos  i have a tin plate with all the stuff on it and i transfered it to an exel spread sheet.  give me a day to find it.  doug

I have a #26, which was the wooden box model with fertilizer, and I was able to get quite a few parts from AGCO for it (seed funnels, etc).  I had the "catchy" disc problem too, and found that it was caused by rusty steel sealing washers getting caught on the felt seals.  A trip to the dealer got me all new washers (couple bucks each), and I was able to overhaul my openers pretty easily.  The drill is extremely accurate, and does a good job.  I was even able to get the fertilizer section working on mine, and it does a good job too, although I wish I had another set of fertilizer feed wheels for it.  To answer your question about opener disassembly, yes the nut with the lock tab in the center of the opener is what holds everything together.  

Edited by BrettPhillips - 08 Apr 2011 at 7:57am

sunny day again here so off to do outside stuff.   i will probably pull the disc off on the next rainy day which is often.   thanks for the advise on the disc i will see what i have once i pull them off.    as far as getting a new to me drill i wouldn't know what to do with rubber tires.  and we have written on the lid of the seed box  a bunch of the settings that this old girl is happy with.   thanks for the heads up on the drill next time i am up spokane way i will let you know.  saw some allcrop parts up there on craigs not to long ago.

Yeah it is way too rich for my blood....my little AC 6' Allcrop is going to have to do.

well while i was outside getting my first mild sunburn (opps) a buddy of mine came out looking for something to do so we took the disc off the drill.   first we removed the cap in the center of the disc then inserted a square chunk of keystock in and tuned it loose.  32 disc later and they are on the floor.  i went to my local agco dealer and one of the dealerships they absorbed years ago still have the parts book for my model38 drill.  my seals look like paper.  if they can get them i will just install new and regrease them all.  shoot me an email if you need the setting for seeding