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2 row planter question, old school

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M-Farm

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Just picked up an old planter, it is not notill and has the fertilizer boxes removed. It works but I checked the seed spacing and it's every 18" which seems extreme. Can I carefully grind more seed spaces in the plates or just sell it and look for another? Don't want to waste time if it's not worth it.

Just wanting to plant 2 acres for cattle, thanks.
 
Is it something that's home made? Any factory built planter should have different drive sprockets to change the speed of rotation of the plates. If not,there should at least be different plates available. If neither one's an option,it's a real cobble job and I'd keep looking.
 
It sounds like it should be new enough that the shafts have the
gears already on them. Are there extra unused gears? You just
have to find the ratio combination that gives the best seeding
for you. Find out the model number and post it on TT.
Someone will have a manual and can tell you all you need to
know. Don't bother grinding on it. You will just have it 10 kinds
of messed up.
 
It's a Burch true blue 3 point, looks mostly factory with no extra sprockets. Pretty old looking.
 
Every corn planter made has sprockets or gear transmission
or a combination allowing a different seed spacing.

Sometimes the sprockets are hidden under a shield or the like.

eBay lists some Burch parts.

You should be able to find a better option than grinding more
notches.

Paul
 
Could it be hill dropping ? That would be rare and I'm not sure if anyone
remembers that but basically there were three ways of doing it check row hill
drop and row.the hill drop was about 3 plants would drop at once .It worked
for cross cultivated corn and if you cut by hand it you could grab a bunch and
cut at the same time .remembering opening fields that way
 
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