[AT] Oliver Iron Age Potato Planter parts issue

Charlie V 1cdevill at gmail.com
Wed May 29 13:49:38 PDT 2013


In my previous post, please make that McConnell with two L's.  Some days it
is hard to do anything right.

Charlie


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Grant Brians <sales at heirloom-organic.com>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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