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.

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.

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.

This product worked like a charm! I'm a new-to-farming-Gen-X "oldster" and needed a foolproof way of planting my flower seeds...sunflower, dahlias, zinnias, peonies and wildflowers. Each seed comes in so many different sizes so the easy to switch out discs were a breeze to use.I'm not even joking when it comes to using this thing. I'm about 5'7 and out-of-shape and pushing the Chapin Seed Planter was easy, the occasional rock or two in the soil might slow down progress but most rocks the wheel just ran right on over and kept on going. I wasn't strained, nor did I ever have to fight with this Planter, I thought it was a bit flimsy out of the box but really it's a magnificent device designed to save your back and your soul. Who knew?I had help from my 13 year old assembling the handle, which helps with two people but one person could do it alone. I think overall for the value, the time saved by not having to bend over and move row to row is truly what makes this nifty little seed planter so great. Can't imagine I'd be able to walk if I had to do it all by hand. Save your back and some money.

Well....seemed like a good purchase for the price point. I originally bought this to plant sunflowers. Box came pretty beat up so that made me pretty concerned that the parts inside were broken or missing. HOWEVER when I was trying to install the row attachment, I noticed the chute that goes from the hopper to the cutter where the seed is inserted to the ground wasn't even in the hole in the base of the frame. Could this have been from the rough shipping???? maybe but there are two bolts on both sides of the base plate and this thing was stuck on one of the bolt heads. This was probably due to manufacturing (China) and very poor-quality control.I was ready to just to send back but I needed to get this field planted so I decided to take the chute apart and see if I could move it over into the hole. Had to take 6-8 screws out and remove the bolt on the bottom to move the chut into the hole. All this to say it did work and I was able to get this back to together and get my sunflower field planted. It worked well and was easy to use.See if it holds up. Only tested with sunflower seeds.NOTE: have your soil prepared or this will not work correctly, and you don't want debris (grass, weeds etc) in the dirt because this stuff will clog the cutter and part that pulls dirt back over the seed and you will have to keep stopping. I would rake that stuff out before planting.Crappy assembly and poor-quality control is the reason for my low rating!

Oh my goodness! This is fantastic! My husband and I are in our late 60’s and we both LOVE to have a garden in the summer. It has been getting harder and harder on us to plant one and we would have to plant a couple of rows at a time and then rest for the day and then do it again the next day. With this seeder we were able to do half of our large garden in the time it would have taken us to do two rows before! It’s lightweight, easy to handle and keeps the rows fairly straight. I feel like the cost of the seeder is very good and it is easy to use, easy to understand. If you have trouble like we do….buy this…..you won’t regret it!

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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