[AT] Looking for planter parts

[charlie hill]

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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