[AT] Looking for planter parts

Tue Jul 25 06:42:17 PDT 2017

Some guys have all the luck. Right place at the right time for sure!

I've always liked them for their "uniqueness" you might say. But not enough to spend what they normally bring.

Didn't someone here post a link to a modern day version of the G? Was thinking a manufacturing outfit down south somewhere was building them.

Brad

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Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 6:14:28 PM
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Dean,  G's have been highly modified over the years by vegetable farmers.
I'm really surprised that Grant doesn't have one.
The guys out on Long Island, NY have developed all sorts of specialty
cultivator rigs for various crops and they have been
lifted and spread and about any kind of modification you can speak of.  I
don't know if they are still using them up there
but in the late 80's they were in high demand.

A friend and I went to an auction sale on a cold winter day about 40 miles
from here.  It was a vegetable farmer originally
form NY that had been here for years and was retiring.  The only reason we
went was that he had a G and we both wanted
one.  We figured that since all of the farmers in that area were big acreage
row crop farmers (except this one guy) that it would
be over looked and go cheap.  Well were we ever wrong.  I'd be willing to
bet that a third of the bidders at the sale were from
Long Island which is ....IDK.... about 700 miles or so away.  They went on
that G like ducks on a June bug.  Neither of us even bid.
It opened way above what I would have paid for it.

I never did find one but my friend did.  He called me one day laughing his
head off.  He said he was going from a job site he was
working on to lunch and passed by a house just as an older gentleman drove a
G out in his yard and put a for sale sign on it.
He whipped around and went back.  I forget how much the man wanted but it
was cheap.  Two or three hundred dollars if I remember
right. He bought it before the man even got back to his house from putting
the sign on it.

Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: deanvp
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2017 11:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [AT] Looking for planter parts

The Allis G was the only Allis that interested me enough to say if I ever
found one at the right price I would try to buy it.  That never happened
but in the process I did run into one for sale that was described as a Allis
G High Crop. My first reaction was: that is unique and might be worth quite
a bit. Then I finally woke up and told myself that I didn't know enough
about Allis G's to be paying a premium price so I walked away.  Turns out
that Allis never made a High Crop version of the G  The one I saw had either
been home built or had a commercial kit added to it. I didn't see anything
on it that was a Rube Goldberg contraption but my gut said No!  My gut was
right.

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-------- Original message --------From: charlie hill
<charliehill at embarqmail.com> Date: 7/23/17  11:49 AM  (GMT-07:00) To:
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Subject: Re: [AT] Looking for planter parts
Len I can remember in the early days of this list
a conversation about AC G's.  One guy on the list
who I can't remember now (sorry) was from Alabama
and was shocked that we had such interest in G's.
He said they were everywhere in his area and could be bought
for very little money.  I hope he bought and kept several!

Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: Len Rugen
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 8:54 PM
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I've made contact with someone that cuts these down to make 2-row food plot
planters, he still has the last outside units from his last build.  When
it's not 102, I'll make a road trip in the pickup :-)
Several years ago, I went to a going-out-of business auction of an  AC
dealer in Stockton, MO (or that area).  There were a lot of NOS parts and
I'd expect 80% sold that nobody knew what they fit.
The dealer had also converted a lot of lettered AC's to wide front, some of
his early attempts looked awkward, but the later ones looked good.
There wasn't a Model G :-(

Len Rugen

rugenl at yahoo.com

On Saturday, July 22, 2017, 7:32:48 PM CDT, Bruce Fallon
<bfallon at whidbey.com> wrote:

Just got a copy of FARM SHOW  and they have an article on "Here's Where To
Get Parts for Oder Planters"  They say Clem Koelzer  has parts for Case, IH,
Deere, Whites and some home builts.

The article says to contact FARM SHOW Followup, Koelzer Repair,  581 KS-61,
Onaga, Kansas 66521  (Phone 785 857-3257).

Bruce Fallon
Langley, WA 98260

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