[AT] Oliver Iron Age Potato Planter parts issue

Cecil R Bearden crbearden at copper.net
Wed May 29 09:17:16 PDT 2013


Grant:
Can you post some pictures of it?  There may be something on another 
unit that may work and some of us may have access to parts.... Or Junk 
depending on which spouse you ask!!

Cecil in OKla



On 5/29/2013 8:12 AM, Grant Brians wrote:
> My beautiful planter got broken on Monday! My workers were planting and
> somehow (I can't actually figure out how!) the drive clutch on one side
> broke - literally the two dogs on the casting broke off. Naturally as Oliver
> bought AB Farquhar in 1951 and Oliver shut down production of these models
> somewhere around the early 60's if that late, I can't find the part at all.
> I am going to have to have hte local machine shop make a reasonable facsimil
> of this part. But naturally I am looking for backup parts for this unit as
> it is literally a critical part of my farming operation.
>       Does anyone have any suggestions as to where i could find parts? The
> Yesterdays Tractors website has several people who said a few years ago that
> McConnell in NY still has/makes parts for the Iron Age units, but I can not
> find any information that suggests they are still in business now.
>             Grant Brians
>             Hollister,California vegetable, fruit and nuts farmer
>
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