[AT] OT--- 800 IH plate planter

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

I'm hoping to finish the controls on my foam marker on my sprayer tomorrow 
so I can get the planter in the shop for a once over. One thing I have 
started doing on my grain drill is tying a piece of baler twine(with several 
knots in the end to serve as a weight) to use as a row marker.  When I 
started growing milo I had to block off every other spout so I needed a more 
accurate way to drill than guessing, this works surprisingly well. Its 
positioned to run right over the last row on milo, second to last on 
everything else.

John


-----Original Message----- 
From: Greg Hass
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 10:56 PM
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: Re: [AT] OT--- 800 IH plate planter

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
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