Front Gangs

The GS41 Series offers two different types of Front Gangs, Front Notched Disc Blades and Front Spiked Rollers, making this Ground Seeder ideal for many different environments.

Front Notched Disc Blades are ideal for aggressive tillage, or simply cutting seed openings. These come standard with both the Hunting and Conservation Package.

Front Spiked Rollers will create pockets to hold seed and initiate germination, aggressive angling can remove existing stands by their roots. Front Spiked Rollers comes as standard equipment on the Landscaping Package.

Spiked Drive Roller

Standard equipment on the GS41, the Spiked Drive Roller has 1.75” case-hardened spikes that will crush clods, pushes down seeds, and dimples soil to trap moisture

Cast Iron Trailing Cultipacker

To expedite germination, the in-base rear Cast Iron Trailing Cultipacker levels and breaks up soil clods. Pressing the seed into the soil for improved seed-to-soil contact, it firms the seed bed, and creates furrows to trap and channel water with the notched ribs.

The GS41 Series has three different configuration packages, the Hunting Package, the Landscaping Package, and the Conservation Package.

The Hunting Package and Landscaping Package are similar, both coming standard with Spiked Drive Roller, Cool Season Seed Box, and a Cast Iron Trailing Cultipacker. The main difference is the Front Gang, the Hunting Package will be equipped with Front Notched Disc Blades and the Landscaping Package will include the Front Spiked Rollers.

The Landscaping Package comes standard with a Spiked Drive Roller, Front Spiked Rollers, Cool Season Seed Box, and a Cast Iron Trailing Cultipacker.

The GS41 Series is available with up to three different seed boxes, making it capable of planting almost any type of seeds over a wide range of seeding rates.

Cool Season Seed Box: Allows operators to plant anything from Rye grass and Fescue to Orchard Grass.

• Suggested Seed Types: Annual Rye Grass, Barley, Kentucky Blue Grass Blends, Fescue, Oats, Orchard Grass, Perennial Rye Grass, Snow Peas, Sorghum, Soybeans, Sunflower, Sudan, Wheat
  
  

Legume Seed Box: Can be used for seeds such as Alfalfa, Bermuda, and Clover.

• Suggested Seed Types: Alfalfa, Bahai, Bermuda, Birdsfoot Tree Foil, Brassica, Buckwheat, Carpet Grass, Centipede Grass, Chicory, Clover, Fescue, Forb, Kentucky Blue Grass, Radishes, Rape, Sudan, Switch Grass, Timothy, Turnip

Native Seed Box: Ideal for planting long stemmed prairie seeds that are not capable of being planted in the Cool Season and Legume seed boxes.

• Suggested Seed Types: Big Blue Stem, Brome, Indian, Little Blue Stem, Side Oats Grama

The calibration tray system uses two seed cups to catch seed, that is used to calibrate seed meters and adjusts to the desired seeding rate, resulting in repeatable seed rate accuracy within 0.1 lb./acre. The calibration tray can be used with the Ground Seeder in the stationary position or pulled over a short distance in the seedbed.

*Additional chain drive kits are available through attachments & service for certain applications requiring slower seeding rates.

Ideal for wet or sticky soil conditions, the optional scraper kits offered on the GS41 Series Ground Seeder will help keep soil from building up on your equipment.

• Front Spiked Roller Scraper Kit [Field Installed]
• Notched Disc Blade Scraper Kit [Field Installed]
• Spiked Drive Roller Scraper Kit [Field Installed]
• Cast Iron Cultipacker Scraper Kit [Field Installed]

The row unit turns notched, concave disc blades into row openers for accurate seed placement on 7.5" row spacing.

The Road Transport Light Kit comes as a field installed option on the GS41 Series Ground Seeder.