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Convert Corn Planter to Potato Planter?

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K-Mo

09-07-2006 07:04:35

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I am looking for information for converting a corn planter into a potato planter. Can anyone help?
K-Mo

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RickL

09-08-2006 04:04:07

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Re: Convert Corn Planter to Potato Planter? in reply to K-Mo, 09-07-2006 07:04:35

have a potato planter wanting to sell always been sitting in the fellows shed.

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Hugh MacKay

09-08-2006 02:47:00

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Re: Convert Corn Planter to Potato Planter? in reply to K-Mo, 09-07-2006 07:04:35

K-Mo: I've tried a few of the contraptions these guys speak of. I find most tractors are just too fast for hand dropping to be accurate. I know a lot of you will say accuracy doesn't matter, that's just not so. Potato seed spacing is just as important as corn.

I use a middle buster on front tool bar of my Super A and a set of hiller blades on rear hitch. I make drill with middle buster. I use a 1/2 bu pail with shoulder harness and a 4" sewer tube 42" long with a handle like a walking stick, then hiller blades to cover the seed. It's two passes with tractor, but is still faster than dropping seed from moving tractor.

I can plant an acre in 3-4 hours, by myself. A neighbor once called me to make drills and cover the seed. He had 3 guys with 1/2 bu pails and sewer tubes and 2 guys carrying potatoes to the 3. I was the busiest guy on the tractor. They kept me busy enough making drills, I had over an acre to cover when they were done, and I was running in 2nd gear all the time.

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`Bernie in MA

09-07-2006 19:12:26

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Re: Convert Corn Planter to Potato Planter? in reply to K-Mo, 09-07-2006 07:04:35

I used my 3-bottom trailer plow with my JD crawler. I rigged a seat behind the middle bottom with a piece of stove pipe going down behind it and a holder for a bushel basket. My helper rode on it while I drove, plowing as usual, dropping cut potatoes down the pipe. I had plowed and disked first. We did a dry run in the driveway first to get the spacing. Worked really well.

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setter

09-07-2006 18:15:44

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Re: Convert Corn Planter to Potato Planter? in reply to K-Mo, 09-07-2006 07:04:35

I guess you could use an old tobacco/tomato transplanter(setter), they're pretty cheap now. It would only give you one row but only need one other person. Should be easy to modify with the downspout idea and 3 PH to boot.

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kyplowboy

09-08-2006 21:03:40

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Re: Convert Corn Planter to Potato Planter? in reply to setter, 09-07-2006 18:15:44

I may be wrong but I think Holland makes fingers for it's old school setters for bulbs and taters. Find an old one row in a barn some where and you would have more money in the fingers than the whole outfit, that would work great.

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LeJo

09-07-2006 09:34:05

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Re: Convert Corn Planter to Potato Planter? in reply to K-Mo, 09-07-2006 07:04:35

My dad took an old JD two row corn planter, wired an old tin 3 inch drain down spout on behind the fertilizer shoe, in about three places. The down spout extend about 3 or 4 inches above the seed box. Setting a bushel (metal) basket and securing with wire through the handle. A wooden box could also be used. My brother and I sat on the seed boxes, reaching into the basket for potatoes that were cut into (one eye)pieces and placed them into the drain tube. In other words they were an inch and a half to two inches. They did not have to be rounded. We used horses the first few years but later a tractor hitch. Only thing was that it took 3 people. We could ready a half acre and plant it in an hour. We learned to keep an eye down the tube, only once did we have to stop when a potato was sliced to large, and didnt go all the way down the tube. Ours worked for for many years.

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K-Mo

09-07-2006 10:23:09

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Re: Convert Corn Planter to Potato Planter? in reply to LeJo, 09-07-2006 09:34:05

Thanks for the information. I think what you are describing is what I have in mind. A poor man's planter, a step up from using a spade. I have seen them from a distance but never studied them up close. I quess just remove the planter boxes and throw the seed potatoes down the chute. Maybe I can make a one man one row planter with my side mounted Farmall Cub planter. One hand on the steering wheel and one hand pitching seed potatoes down the chute.

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K-Mo

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Jeff Wenner

09-07-2006 09:04:34

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Re: Convert Corn Planter to Potato Planter? in reply to K-Mo, 09-07-2006 07:04:35

Can't be done practically. You cant jam a 2" seed potatoe through an apparatice designed to handle 1/4" kernles of seed corn. Keep your eyes open, you can usually pick up a potatoe planter for a reasonable price.

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paul

09-07-2006 08:48:37

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Re: Convert Corn Planter to Potato Planter? in reply to K-Mo, 09-07-2006 07:04:35

That would be a _major_ overhaul.

--->Paul

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