[AT] Looking for planter parts

[Len Rugen]

People take these old 4-row and larger planters and cut them down to 2-row "food plot" planters.  Mine is wheel driven, so I think you can only use the 2 center units.  I'm trying to contact someone that sells these cut down planters, I don't think they can use the outside row units for anything but parts or scrap. There is some listed within "day trip" distance and I could haul a row-unit in the pickup bed.
Planters that drive off the press wheel can be sliced and diced to make about anything, just add 3-pt hitch to whatever toolbar length.  I could just cut mine down to 2 or 3 rows, it would be lopsided as a 3-row, but I grew up with a 2 row planter and I really enjoy planting twice as fast.  :-)



Len Rugen

rugenl at yahoo.com





On Thursday, July 20, 2017, 5:33:11 PM CDT, Grant Brians <sales at heirloom-organic.com> wrote:

I wish I could help you. The usual comments are pertinent: Older 
machinery that is sized for smaller operations is getting harder to find 
and parts when available are more and more expensive....

I would hope that contacting used machinery brokers and salesmen from 
the dealers would help you line up what you need, that is an often 
useful path for me when I encounter things like this. Be thankful that 
you are not using a shop-built unit like our main small seed vegetable 
planter that needs us to repair it whenver there is a failure....
              Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer

On 7/19/2017 10:32 AM, Len Rugen wrote:
> I use a JD 494 planter for food plots, it had some worn parts, but I've used it for several years, not many acres.  I was planting for the first time in some cleared land and hit a stump breaking the cast part of one of the row units.  I'm looking for an organ donor or left overs when a planter is cut down to fewer rows.  I've found some $400 range used planters, but they are over 100 miles away.  I'm in the middle of Missouri.
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