[AT] ford corn planters

[toma at risingnet.net]

Back about 1970 I became interested in planting peas, later we called them 
English Peas. Anyway peas picked green in the pod to be shelled. I bought 
a IHC four row panter at an auctin for $15. It was one of the newer pieces 
of equipment I ever had, it had rubber tires. They were 6.00x16 tractor 
tread impement tires. It used Plates. There was still an IHC dealer here 
and they got me the right plates for peas. It would plant peas about 2.25" 
apart. It was a runner type planter but it would plant a uniform depth. 
Years later I learned the runners were well worn out but it worked fine 
for me. I always had the ground worked up deep and fluffy with lots of 
moisture. I would sink the seed 3 or 4" deep. It as not been used for 
years and the tires are shot but I bet it would still work. I later years 
I picked up 2 more planters, one had near neww runners and the other had 
double disk openers. Those got scrapped during the scrapping era. I am 
still kind of sick about that.