Any idea what this planter is?

Redneck Packrat · Aug 9, 2016

It's green and yellow...nominally... but I can't say for sure it's *supposed to be* green & yellow :mrgreen:

I googled 2-row horse drawn planter and couldn't find something even near similar in the images. Could be it's a Frankenstein, but I think Dad would've mentioned that it was sometime in my 52 years.

My first memories of it had a long tongue with a clevis in the front, and was drawn. The drawbar was long enough where I suspect it was for hooking it to horses, being that there was no weight on the drawbar, it was hinged right in front of the front wheel. In the 70's it was chopped and made into a 3 point hookup.

Not sure about the pic attaching, I'll keep editing until they show up.

Any thoughts or ideas on where to start with identifying it, I appreciate, and thanks for looking.

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Dick2 · Aug 10, 2016

There are a lot of parts missing, but looks like it could have been a potato planter at one time, or some other type of specialty planter.

Redneck Packrat · Aug 10, 2016

We actually used it for years as-is to plant the garden. One on the tractor, and another (usually me, when I was a kid) dribbling seeds into the seed chutes by hand. When I was young, we had the boxes to it, because they'd get put on it to finish out planting the corn in the garden patch.

I have no idea where the boxes to it went. We had an involuntary clean-up (massive iron theft) one year when the barnyard was left unattended for a few days and I am afraid the boxes wound up going across the scales. That's the biggest reason I'm wanting to identify it, so I know where to start looking for boxes to go on it.

I'll get some better, closer pics of it today or tomorrow, of where the boxes mount.

Greg K · Aug 10, 2016

Looks like a lister planter, used in dry
areas. I'm thinking a deere by the wheels
but I'm not sure. Dad had a couple grain
drills years ago with the same wheels but
I'm not sure what brand they were.

Leroy · Aug 10, 2016

You must be in the arid southwest as that is a lister planter for planting in the bottom of a trench to get down to moistur and for to help any little bit of rain run down to the row of plants. So being a lister planter eliminates most of the US from ever seeing one like that. Could there have been a short line manufacture in your area that might have made it.

Bobl1958 · Aug 10, 2016

Sometimes part numbers can help identifying a piece of eqt. You might look for numbers or identifying marks. Bob

Redneck Packrat · Aug 10, 2016

(quoted from post at 07:52:23 08/10/16) You must be in the arid southwest as that is a lister planter for planting in the bottom of a trench to get down to moistur and for to help any little bit of rain run down to the row of plants. So being a lister planter eliminates most of the US from ever seeing one like that. Could there have been a short line manufacture in your area that might have made it.

We're on the Gulf Coast, where it's either wet as hell or bone dry. The way we use that is to plant on top of furrows. During a wet time, we'll set it to knock off only enough to make a flat seed bed, but during dry, we'll go quite a ways down to find moisture that has wicked up over the winter into the rows.

Basically, knock enough of the top of the row off to where we're not dry-planting. Some years it's a couple inches, some years it's a good 8 inches down to moisture.

Usually works okay, unless the weather cycle changes from dry to wet during the growing season, when we've got the rows knocked down to almost flat to plant, then get a frog-strangler that floods the flattened ground.

Flat planting has pretty much taken over, but that depends on so much herbicide that I don't like it. Easier to run iron over the ground. Besides, there's a whole heck of a lot more moving parts on a flat planter! :mrgreen:

Phone was dead, too dead to get pics of it, but I did find some JD casting numbers on some of it. I'm gonna frustrate myself searching for things those parts fit on, tonight. LOL

Any idea what this planter is?

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