converting corn planter

You likely can, but you can get a JD 7000 or one of several others at an auction, 4-6 row for less than $5000 today. I saw one go in Lancaster this week, a 6r 7000, plus about 4 pallets of parts and other stuff for $3000, and it was a really nice planter. You can easily convert another unit to no till, but you'd be ahead buying one that is already set up......
 
I am wanting to put these units on either a 290 or a 919 horse drawn planter. seed corn today is so poorly graded it is hard to get plates that will plant properly
 
I suppose you could, but they were really made to be on a 7x7 toolbar. a bit of blacksmithing would be needed and a way of driving the unit would be needed...
 
I have seen some Amish 999 horse planters with the older 1240-style finger pickups on them. I don't know what all went into the conversion, but it looks like the cans and meter bases fit on without needing too much fabrication.
 
Probably for about the same money that you can get a different planter, people will want the older unmolested planters, so just sell it.
 
Are you pulling with horses?

If so, 7000 uses hydraulics, so will need to upgrade 290 series with mechanical lift.
 
Without knowing, I was thinking those style planters might be easier to confer over as well. The early model finger versions.

Paul
 
Its not hard to put them on. You don't need big box beam on a 2 row. Or parallel linkage. I just welded them solid, on my sweet corn planter. Ran chain back to a Allis planter drive wheel. Works great, and great to loan.
 
Actually on his model planters it would be next to impossible to put ant plateless unit on. even the earliest Deere12XX series units would be way to heavy for the frames on either one of the planters he is asking about. It would be the easiest on the 290 and still take a months work and a thousand dollars to do it. The 919 is a very light weight horse drawn planter that is a version of the 999 horse planter that was made without any of the check wire attachments and is in itsetself a colletor for shows planter. The 999 is still a popular planter in use. And for graded seed it should be no problem. You go probably a 150 mile in any direction from my place and you probably will find as many plate planters in use as plateless type. And that will be thousands of planters. A store I have been to has all the plastic seed plates made hanging from the ceiling for sale for both Deere and IHC. And the most desired planter out there is a IHC 449-449A or 450 made from 57 to about 64 In a clutch lift model and that is way before platess grades were thought of. And many of the small farms those2 row planters are used on are planting possibly as small amount of corn as an acre or two a year and the corn will all be hand husked in the field. His problem is the seed companys that don't want to be bothered with the small farmer.
 

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