[AT] Looking for planter parts

Sat Jul 22 18:31:55 PDT 2017

Charlie, 
Understand, I had one of those moments of being in the right place at the right time a few years ago. Over the years I had been buying some NOS and used parts from the 40's and 50's that a JD dealer had stored in a shed that I was allowed to go look in occasionally. I would usually find a part or two that was of interest and we would haggle for awhile and usually but not always I would end up taking them home. Then one time I was at the dealer and they told me they had purged all the rest of that era parts from their active stockroom and would I be interested in buying the lot???? 10 pretty good sized boxes. They gave me a printed list of what was in the 10 boxes. Would I buy the whole bunch for $xx? My mind rattled through the list and I thought for a microsecond and said "YES"  knowing just a few parts that were in there were worth that. I didn't even try to bargain.  That was several years ago and I'm still trying to sell it all off. One of the best buys I have made in a while.  I had also been introduced to the two NOS Parts warehouses and found several parts I really needed for restorations I was working on. This was about the time where I was doing a whole bunch of historical research on JD's 800 Series hitches. Part of that research was trying to figure out all the various Mast Brackets the JD sold to adapt their implements to the 800 Series Evener Bar. That turned out to be a substantial challenge. As far as I know no one had been down that road other than maybe JD Engineering in the early 50's and there was no documentation to be found including in JD Archives. Well, all that did was to send me off on a long, long hunt. Months even years later I was able to identify that there were 17 different Mast Brackets designed and sold.  Then I made a Fatal mistake. I asked myself:  I wonder if it would be possible to find and own one each of these 17 Mast Brackets?  So off I went on a multi year pursuit. Two years ago I finally found the 17th one.  To close the circle back to the original subject of this conversation. About 70% of the brackets I found are NOS. Never been used. Are they worth all that much? Probably not but the chase was fun.  The  three letter abbreviation "NOS" gets everybody's attention. 

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-------- Original message --------From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> Date: 7/22/17  3:48 PM  (GMT-07:00) To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com> Subject: Re: [AT] Looking for planter parts 
Dean,  I think I have told this to the group before but it still pains me 
every time
I think of it and you just reminded me again.   About 20 or so years ago a 
doctor that lives
just down the road from me and I were chatting at a local store.  He was 
explaining how
he grew up on the DelMarVa peninsula and that his grandfather had been an IH 
dealer
there for many years but had shut his dealership down sometime before (I'm 
thinking now in
the 70's or 80's).  He had just shut the doors.  The Dr. was explaining to 
me that it was time
to do something with the property and he had just been up there and they had 
hired a man
to HAUL OFF all of the OLD PARTS AND EQUIPMENT that were left in the 
building.

I nearly died right on the spot.  He had no clue that the stuff could be 
worth anything.
Still makes me sick.  I only hope the guy they hired was savvy enough to 
"haul it off"
to his own building.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: deanvp
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 7:09 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Looking for planter parts

Also I have access to two different locations that have over 100,000 NOS 
Parts that have been retrieved from dealers obsolete stock.  If part numbers 
can be provided I could see if there are NOS stock parts available.  Another 
option is to go to your local dealer and ask them to do a nationwide dealer 
search to see if any dealer still has that part in stock.

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-------- Original message --------From: Grant Brians 
<sales at heirloom-organic.com> Date: 7/20/17  3:15 PM  (GMT-07:00) To: 
at at lists.antique-tractor.com Subject: Re: [AT] Looking for planter parts
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.
>
>
> Len Rugen
>
> rugenl at yahoo.com
>
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