Great video. I’ve had 2 Genesis 5’s. It’s a great drill for planting food plot mixes or soybeans. A few of things that have helped me. 1. Connect all the screws in the back with a single thin wire. This keeps them from coming unscrewed. 2. When calibrating, I spin wheel 13 times and multiply weight by 2. This has saved a lot of time over the seasons. 3. Make sure the outside plant wheel is ALWAYs spinning while planting. So if on a hill, may have to only plant one way so that the wheel doesn’t come up. Trust me, if the cutting discs spin and the wheel is off the ground, stuff will break. Personal experience. That being said, it is a wonderful durable drill for food plotters. Enjoy.
Thanks for your tips Brad! Happy to hear you have enjoyed yours and we are sure happy with ours! Cant wait to see the change in our food plots as the years progress!
@@StevenPfeiffer i still use it. I have cattle and it’s good for drilling into larger acre pastures. a no till drill is great but not necessary to have outstanding food plots for wildlife.
As you say, the drill is well made and seems to do the job well. As you say, it wont work in the wet, so if you want to seed wet areas, use a 'Broadcaster' for that. Have a great day. Nice one.
Yes, everything we have planted were mixes. And one of the mixes we used had corn in the mix, but besides corn, the largest seed that passed though the drill was corn and soybeans, and we never had an issue.
@@turkeyridgeadventures3467 Thanks. I just bought a Genesis 5 but have not picked it up yet. I have a Massey Ferguson 2860M that has 60HP but is a few hundred pounds lighter than the 5045. It has 3300 lbs 3 point capacity so I am thinking I will be fine.
@@Jimbo4575 Yes it should be just fine, talking with the guy we bought it from, his main concern was lifting capacity. He told us that the HP of the tractor is not as important, but the lifting capacity is, the tractor needs to be able to lift that heavy piece of equipment. I don't know if you got the Gen 5 or the Gen 5 HD, but the Gen 5 is around 1900 pounds where the Gen 5 HD is 2500 pounds. The only reason we decided to go with the HD version is because the regular Gen 5 was months out on production, where as we only has to wait 3 weeks for the HD one. Good luck with yours, I hope it works as well for you as ours did, we absolutely love ours so far!
@@Jimbo4575 Also you can look into filling your tires on your tractor with water, that is something we did as well to add a few extra pounds of weight to our tractor.
I'm sorry Tommy, but I'm not comfortable putting the price of the drill down here in the comments. With that being said if you wish to know how much the cost just do a google search for Genesis no-till drill for sale and you will have a good idea what it cost. We have the Gen 5 version. Genesis makes a 3, 5, 8, and a 10 version that I am aware of.
Great video. I’ve had 2 Genesis 5’s. It’s a great drill for planting food plot mixes or soybeans. A few of things that have helped me. 1. Connect all the screws in the back with a single thin wire. This keeps them from coming unscrewed. 2. When calibrating, I spin wheel 13 times and multiply weight by 2. This has saved a lot of time over the seasons.
3. Make sure the outside plant wheel is ALWAYs spinning while planting. So if on a hill, may have to only plant one way so that the wheel doesn’t come up. Trust me, if the cutting discs spin and the wheel is off the ground, stuff will break. Personal experience.
That being said, it is a wonderful durable drill for food plotters. Enjoy.
Thanks for your tips Brad! Happy to hear you have enjoyed yours and we are sure happy with ours! Cant wait to see the change in our food plots as the years progress!
If you had one what do you use now?
@@StevenPfeiffer i still use it. I have cattle and it’s good for drilling into larger acre pastures. a no till drill is great but not necessary to have outstanding food plots for wildlife.
Looks awesome
Thanks Adventure Rhoades!
As you say, the drill is well made and seems to do the job well. As you say, it wont work in the wet, so if you want to seed wet areas, use a 'Broadcaster' for that.
Have a great day. Nice one.
Yes indeed, it is a solid piece of equipment, can't wait to use it for our fall planting!
I also just purchased the same drill and there is a calibration process that you need to do with the acreage counter.
Thanks Blake! I appreciate it! I do need to finish reading the manual to figure out how to calibrate it, Good to know there is a way to do so!
Price $
Look up a app called "field navigator" I use it for spraying, you can set your implement width to the inch or they have metric measurements also
Thank you! I will have to check that out!
How smooth does the field have to be
Have you tried planting corn with it? I read an article and the guy said he had problems with larger seeds not always feeding correct
Yes, everything we have planted were mixes. And one of the mixes we used had corn in the mix, but besides corn, the largest seed that passed though the drill was corn and soybeans, and we never had an issue.
I have a question. Is it heavy duty?
Yes, yes it is
What horsepower is the tractor
The tractor has 45 horsepower.
What horsepower of tractor is it. ????
The tractor has 45 horsepower.
whats the total acreage you have for hunting
The total acreage of our property is around 560, as far as food plots go we estimate we have about 6 acres we plant for food plots.
@@turkeyridgeadventures3467 you are certainly blessed...good luck this fall and God bless!!
What model John Deere do you have?
We have a 5045E
It has 45 horse power and a little over 3100 pound lift capacity
@@turkeyridgeadventures3467 Thanks. I just bought a Genesis 5 but have not picked it up yet. I have a Massey Ferguson 2860M that has 60HP but is a few hundred pounds lighter than the 5045. It has 3300 lbs 3 point capacity so I am thinking I will be fine.
@@Jimbo4575 Yes it should be just fine, talking with the guy we bought it from, his main concern was lifting capacity. He told us that the HP of the tractor is not as important, but the lifting capacity is, the tractor needs to be able to lift that heavy piece of equipment. I don't know if you got the Gen 5 or the Gen 5 HD, but the Gen 5 is around 1900 pounds where the Gen 5 HD is 2500 pounds. The only reason we decided to go with the HD version is because the regular Gen 5 was months out on production, where as we only has to wait 3 weeks for the HD one. Good luck with yours, I hope it works as well for you as ours did, we absolutely love ours so far!
@@Jimbo4575 Also you can look into filling your tires on your tractor with water, that is something we did as well to add a few extra pounds of weight to our tractor.
What’s the cost of it?
I'm sorry Tommy, but I'm not comfortable putting the price of the drill down here in the comments. With that being said if you wish to know how much the cost just do a google search for Genesis no-till drill for sale and you will have a good idea what it cost. We have the Gen 5 version. Genesis makes a 3, 5, 8, and a 10 version that I am aware of.
15k give or take