[AT] Oliver Iron Age Potato Planter parts issue

Charlie V 1cdevill at gmail.com
Wed May 29 13:44:15 PDT 2013


There was in fact a McConnel manufacturing in Prattsburg NY.  I do not know
what their product was earlier on, but in their later years McConnel
imported parts and assembled the McConnel - Mark tractor line which was
somewhat successful in the early 2000 years and decent looking 2 and 4
wheel drive compact tractors. For whatever reason. McConnel decided to
close the doors and had an auction to sell off all tractors in inventory.
That happened somewhere between six and ten years ago, to my recollection.
I do remember the auction being on a weekday, so I had to work and could
not attend.  I would have liked to be there.

This will probably be of no help, Grant.  If this was the company you are
looking for, at least you now know they are no longer in business.

Charlie V.


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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