[AJD] Went to a Sale Today

Dean VP deanvp at att.net
Sun Nov 28 22:04:25 PST 2004


Ron:

It is a JD Model 821 Two Row Listed Corn Cultivator. I have sent you a
picture out of the Parts Catalog (PC-215-(1-61)). It was made starting in
1935

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
storeroom door 


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-----Original Message-----
From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
Ronald L. Cook
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 9:57 PM
To: Antique John Deere mailing list
Subject: Re: [AJD] Went to a Sale Today

Terry,
	I finally got to the photos.  I don't believe that is originally a
pull 
type cultivator.  But, as I said, I have never seen a two-row pull-type. 
  Only four-row.  Someone on the list will straighten us out though.  I 
can see the confusion over "what is it".  It is missing the shields and 
the discs are set wrong.  The shovels are set in the "throwing in" 
position, but not the discs.  The crop runs between the wheels.  The 
wheels run in the bottom of the furrow.  The discs work  the ridge. 
First time the sides and the next time moving the entire ridge to the 
row.  Someone has a manual I'll bet. The model number should be silk 
screened on the main toolbar or on the drawbar I would think.l,

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

Terry L. Hrdlicka wrote:

> Ron,
> 
> It is in fact a pull type.  I posted a link to a few pics a couple of 
> hours ago, but it hasn't shown up yet!
> 
> Terry
> 
> 
> Ronald L. Cook wrote:
> 
>> Dean,
>>     Yes, that is the two-row pull type lister.  I had forgot about 
>> those. Used to be numerous in these parts but usually were not pulled 
>> by John Deere tractors.  The farmers with row crop John Deere tractors 
>> usually used the integral lister.  Fastened up under the frame of the 
>> tractor and was lifted with the rockshaft.  Much handier for road 
>> travel or for maneuvering in tight spots.  The cultivator was the same 
>> way.  Around here we called them "low-downs", or "go-devils".  That is 
>> why I think Terry's purchase of a "go-dig" is a listed crop 
>> cultivator.  I am curious as to whether or not it is pull-type or 
>> integral mounted.  He will fill us in, I am sure.
>>     I wish I had paid more attention to the 3-row equipment our 
>> neighbor used.  I know it was pull-type as the lister was pulled with 
>> a D.  I do not know what they used to pull the cultivator, but it was 
>> a 3-row pull type also.  Maybe they were able to keep the D on the 
>> lister ridges, but I don't see how you could.  They did have a Farmall 
>> F-12 so that may be what they used for the row crop tillage work.  
>> When the estate was auctioned off a few years ago, I didn't go to the 
>> auction.  I was living in town with no place to store anything and 
>> would not have been able to resist the temptations.  I grew up around 
>> those folks and knew them pretty well.  There was a pile of discarded 
>> D John Deeres as large as most peoples houses.  They had been using 
>> them since they came out and never stopped.  When one came up on 
>> auction or at a dealer, they just bought it and stock piled it for 
>> whatever it was needed for.  Either to scavenge for parts or to use.  
>> Operated only on steel, as they never left the farm.  The remains of 
>> everything from a Waterloo Boy to probably a streeter D was somewhere 
>> on that farm.  A local mechanic traded his bill for an almost complete 
>> Waterloo Boy about 20 years ago.  Made me sick.  He probably got that 
>> tractor for under a hundred bucks.  When I say almost complete, the 
>> part that was missing was the magneto.  It was on a running D.  Even 
>> the oil can was in its place on the Waterloo Boy.  Nuff rambling.
>>
>> Ron Cook
>> Salix, IA
>>
>>
>> Dean VP wrote:
>>
>>> Ron:
>>>
>>> Could it be a two Row Model 730 type Lister?  I've sent you a picture 
>>> of it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Dean A. Van Peursem
>>> Snohomish, WA 98290
>>>
>>> I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
>>> storeroom door
>>>
>>> www.deerelegacy.com
>>>
>>> http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>> [mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On 
>>> Behalf Of
>>> Ronald L. Cook
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 10:43 PM
>>> To: Antique John Deere mailing list
>>> Subject: Re: [AJD] Went to a Sale Today
>>>
>>> Come to think of it, another neighbor farmed mostly with model D John 
>>> Deeres.  They had a 3-row lister and 3-row listed crop cultivator.  I 
>>> believe both were pull type.
>>>
>>> Ron Cook
>>> Salix, IA
>>>
>>> Ronald L. Cook wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dean,
>>>>    I'm betting it is a lister cultivator. The only 2-row versions I 
>>>> have seen are integral type affairs mounted on a B or an A. My Dad's 
>>>> landlord had one for his A and the neighbor had one on a B.  We 
>>>> never used one as my Dad had a couple pull-type.  All pull-type I 
>>>> have seen are 4 row. This is not a fact.  There may have been two 
>>>> row pull types.  This is only what I have seen and I do not know the 
>>>> model numbers of any of them.
>>>>
>>>> Ron Cook
>>>> Salix, IA
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dean VP wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Terry:
>>>>>
>>>>> What the heck is a Go-Dig?
>>>>>
>>>>> Dean A. Van Peursem
>>>>> Snohomish, WA 98290
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
>>>>> storeroom door
>>>>>
>>>>> www.deerelegacy.com
>>>>>
>>>>> http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>>>> [mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On 
>>>>> Behalf Of
>>>>> Terry L. Hrdlicka
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:27 PM
>>>>> To: Antique John Deere mailing list
>>>>> Subject: [AJD] Went to a Sale Today
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Went to an auction today a couple miles south of Lincoln, NE.
>>>>>
>>>>> JD 730 lister original unrestored good shape:  $75
>>>>> JD 44H 2/16" with Leveling Crank (Richard doesn't have the only 
>>>>> one!), on rubber, unrestored, good paint, great shape:  $110
>>>>> Unknown model JD 2 row Go-Dig, unrestored, good paint, good shape, 
>>>>> now sitting outside my corn crib after a 22 mile, 5 MPH trip:  $37.50.
>>>>>
>>>>> What the heck did I buy?  I know what it's for, but I've never seen 
>>>>> one before. Anybody know anything about these things?  Any guesses 
>>>>> as to the model #?  Didn't go over it too close, but I'll try to 
>>>>> find some numbers tomorrow.
>>>>>
>>>>> Terry


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