identify IH Cotton Planter 2 Point 2 Row

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I am still requesting help in identifying this IH 2-Row 2 Point Fast Hitch Planter.

It is driven by left press wheel, through a clutch that only pulls on forward movement. Right press wheel free-wheels in both directions.

This unit has an exposed transmission !!! Press wheel axle has a 1-piece gear set 520465R1 10 & 12 teeth. Driven by square-link chain, through a spring-loaded 3-roller idler. Countershaft is driven from press wheel to 1-piece gear set 5201060R1 8 & 10 & 14 teeth. In the center of the countershaft is a 15 tooth gear driving square-link chain through a 3-roller spring-loaded idler to Planter Units Drive Shaft. On the Planter Units Drive Shaft is a 1-piece gear set with 15 & 11 & 7 teeth (could not see a IH part number).

On each outboard end of the countershaft is a 10 tooth gear that must drive an optional fertilizer applicator or something.

Hopper has COTTON stamped on one boss, and part 621714R2. Underside of cotton hopper has 621704R2.
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This is NOT 2 independent planter units on a tool bar. It is 2 planter hoppers driven by the press wheel, through an exposed transmission.

Both the left and right planter units can be adjusted for row width through a series of holes in the mounting bars.

My guess is you adjust the depth of planting by the turn-wheel seen from the rear, that threads into 520469R1, the female part of this assembly.

There are 2 plates in the planters now, don't know the part number on them. I also have (3) plates 62717R3 that look like the same plate design (I don't know what seeds they are designed for), These plates are very flat.

I also have these planter plates, but I don't know if they fit this planter :
(3) CPB Peanuts In Hull
(1) R7036 Spanish Shelled Peanuts
(1) CPC5133 Small Corn
(1) CPC5044 Small Corn
These plates are very cupped, maybe 1 1/2 inch ?
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Unit is painted mostly IH Red. Press Wheels were originally a cream or white (center hubs were still white under the grease & dirt)

There is some deep blue on the covering hiller disks, the not-galvanized parts of the Seed Hoppers, and maybe the skid pans in front of the opener.
 
i don"t know what model planter but the seed plates that are cup shaped will not work in that planter if you don"t have a planter they will fit i could use them
 
Is that tractor a 140 and did it come with that factory two point hitch set up. I was thinking the two point was only used on high crop models., and very very few of those
 
I am working on this, in C.H. Wendel's book 150 years of IH on page 360 he shows what I believe is this planter being pulled by a 240 Utility. Its stumping me I look in the PL-5 book--It's newer than a 251 and older than a 284 but I can not find anything in between the two. But I think it is the one in C.H.Wendel's book. So it looks like a advertisement for the new 240 Utility so it should be 1958-1962 or so????
 
The shaft and gear numbers are not in my PLA-5A book, on one number it looks like you have one digit too many. The hopper numbers are common to many other planters so nothing there. How about the number on the yoke, spildle and handwheel adjustment that looks like something similar to the 251 but its in a different location and only one where the 251 has two. Can you get me those numbers????
 
Tractor in the picture is my wife's grandfather's 100, now ours since his passing.

I think this planter came into the family when wife's dad purchased a 200, sometime in the 70's. Now ours since his passing.

In this area, Central Louisiana -- apparently the dealers ordered a A's, SA's, 100, 130's with the two-point Fast Hitch. I am 58, and I've only seen one 1-Pont Fast Hitch in my life. Probably 'cause 1-row and 2-row tractors could share some implements with 2-Point FH
 

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