[AT] a one row tractor mounted seeder/planter

[Gilbert Schwartz]

Cecil; You've just GOT to be living right. People seem to hunt you up to do
you a favor. Good show, huh? Gil
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 6:31 PM
Subject: [AT] a one row tractor mounted seeder/planter


> A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I had bought an Allis D-12
> with Bush Hog and also bought a large Vermont Castings wood stove from
> the same guy. I had to let the wood stove sit there until today because
> it rained every day for the past two weeks. Today I went to get the
> wood stove and after we had it loaded in my truck and tied down, the
> guy says to me, "Come with me a second. I have something to give you."
> So he opens the tailgate on his pickup and in there he has a brand new
> Earthway Garden Tractor mount model 9000 seeder/fertilizer machine. He
> asked if I wanted it and of course, I did. I have been looking for a
> mounted corn planter with fertilizer attachment for about 5 years now.
> We put it in my pickup and when I got it home I looked it over. It comes
> with plates for over 20 vegetables - from carrot seed to the largest of
> the beans. Never used and complete with everything including the swing
> over row marker. It has both openers and closers for seed and the
> fertilizer and appears to be quite well made. He almost forgot to give
> me the manual but remembered at the last minute and went in and got it
> for me. I hope this seeder works OK. I have a light hand push Earthway
> seeder that doesn't work all that well.
>
> Does anyone else have one of these? It would attach to the
> drawbar on any of my garden tractors and even the Cub. It is ground
> driven but has good sized lugs on the drive wheel so I imagine it has
> pretty positive drive.
>
> People keep giving me things.
>
> Cecil
> -- 
> The nicest thing about telling the truth is you never have to wonder
> what you said.
>
> Cecil E Monson
> Lucille Hand-Monson
> Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole
>
> Allis Chalmers tractors and equipment
>
> Free advice
>
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