Help Identifying older 2 row JD planter

Bought this at a auction and need to know what manual to get. Any help would be great, unsure if it is a 246, 290 or 71. Thanks
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My vote goes for a 290. we had one when I was in high school. 71 planters are units that mount on a tool bar. 246 I think were mounted planters. Never seen one around here.
 
We used a 246 for years and yes a 3 point hitch. Have 4 290 setting in junk pile but never used one. We went from the 245 to a Oliver 402 planter then to a 494 John Deere. And that unit planter for on a tool bar never saw that around here. 50 mile south of J.
 
There were supposed to have been beats grown in this area before my time. I remember seeing beat drills, looked like a normal drill but with openers on 21-28" row spacing instead of standard drill spacing of 7". When I went to 30" row beans I just picked up an extra Deere 494 planter and set it for 30" and kept the other one on 40" for corn, was still using a 2 row mounted 227 Deere picker on a late A.
 
70s and 71s are ;unit planters'. meaning you clamp any number of them to a tool bar. 2,4,6,8 rows are most common.Some guys put one unit on a bar for skips,or specialty or gardens.you can set them up on two bars to get twin rows. I use four 71 on 30" rows for corn. I set up a double row soybean planter this fall.Two rows 5" apart on a 30" bed.
 
Thor,

Many years ago I bought two JD 290 planters. I think I paid about $50.00 apiece for them. I did some "barnyard engineering" on them and tied them together to make one four row planter. It worked out well.

I don't remember that the seed boxes or the fertilizer boxes looked just like the one you have pictured. Maybe different vintages of planters?

In any event, they were good old planters for their time.

Tom in TN
 
Just saw a typo, the 245 was supposed to be 246. The 246 had corn only seed boxes while the 247 model was same except it had combination corn-cotton seed boxes.
 
290 but there are several different versions of the manual for that planter and each contain different information. The older manuals had a parts book in them that is not in newer ones that ban hehp someone not familuar with the planters understand what the directions for operation are saying as you can see the picture of the part to know what they are talking about where without that they just assume you know what they are talking about. Better still id each version of the operators manual you can find because of someting worded or pictued differently pluss an actuall parts manual.
 

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