[AT] OT--- 800 IH plate planter

[Greg Hass]

I asked my brother and his is a 900 six row. His is the air planter and 
not the plates. He has not replaced and of the parts you mentioned as 
his has not planted that many acres. He bought it used at about 10 years 
old. Although it was 8-10 years old it had only been used 1 or 2 years. 
It was one of those deals where the mans son wanted to farm so they 
rented more land and bought bigger equipment, the planter being one of 
those things. A year or two later the son decides that is too much work 
for the money and tells dad he was out of there. The dad was too old to 
work everything by himself so he rented out the farm and sort of retired 
but kept the machinery in case his son changed his mind. After 6 or 7 
years the dad decided he may as well sell everything and that was when 
my brother bought the planter. Although unused for all those years, it 
had been kept in a nice dry shed and looked as good as new. As I said, I 
use a 4 row New Idea planter (a clone of a White) and have been very 
happy with it. Our planters have markers but I know what you mean about 
the pipe and  chains as I use the exact same thing on my old JD grain 
drill and it works great. Sure beats turning around all the time to see 
that you are driving right. The turning around thing didn't bother me 
till after fifty; age sure has a way about changing how we do things. As 
for the fertilizer thing, we had a couple of clutches break on our 400 
planter. Turns out the fertilizer place scraped the spilled fertilizer 
up from around the train car and shoveled some of the crushed stone into 
the fertilizer which broke the fertilizer clutches. We took the stone 
and the broken pieces to the fer. dealer and they said they would pay 
for parts but when we gave them the bill they said they weren't liable 
and no way would they pay. Seems to be the way of the world today.
            Greg Hass