John Deere Van Brundt decal

Owen555

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I just purchased a Van Brundt FB-A. I am begining to restore it and need decals when I complete painting, anyone know of a source? I am also looking for a seed chart for the main seed box, and a grass seed chart for the grass box. The drill is in pretty good shape and should serve me well for plotting.
 

For correct charts if available from JD one would need to know disk spacing & # of seed openings. I checked on 2 different charts & they were NLA from JD. As previously stated there were no decals for a model FB-A
 

Grain chart is part number J1996M which is NLA Small seed chart for 1965 yr model is
M16634 CHART SEED 7 INCH ADD 23.29 USD

I don't know why the chart was different for 1 yr of manufacturing
 
I restored a JD Van Brunt B 13x7 several years ago. What decals are you wondering about? Everything on mine was painted lettering, I believe.
 
(quoted from post at 17:40:04 05/20/19) I restored a JD Van Brunt B 13x7 several years ago. What decals are you wondering about? Everything on mine was painted lettering, I believe.

Kervin
You're incorrect on number of seed openings on a JD model B drill as only "'even number openings"" were manufactured on model B drills. Please look a chart below. I remember assembling Model B & other JD drill models back in the day.

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Kerwin,
I was in hopes someone made an aftermarket decal that went across the back of the fert box and front of the grass box, John Deere Van Brundt. I guess not so I will stencil it.
 
Not sure if this is any help, but what I did was outline the old letters in red permanent marker, and then hand painted in the letters. Turned out nice.
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You're right. It's a 14 x 7. Should have remembered correctly as I had to replace all 14 of the disk openers! Here's some photos from
"during" and after working on it.

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Just curious what was the 8 inch spacing's for, A 6 inch was preferred and 7 in was frowned upon in the spring wheat area, maybe flax to prevent root rot ?
 

Majority of grain drills sold in my area were 7'' spacing on openers. A few 8'' were sold to farmers that normally grazed the small grains. IIRC it was stated yearlings could walk in between rows of grain better without harming plants. I don't actually believe that story because most livestock trails I've seen in my life aren't straight line.
 
I have done simular on a plow but for thateverything was painted not like on your galvanised unit so doing that on yours you did not loose what things looked like orignaly. I have never seen a galvanized box John Drill only painted boxes so it would work on them like I did on my plow and that is before anypainting I ysed a marker, happened to be black as what I had, to outline letters then inside the line I put grease to keep paint away when spraying the red on rest of plow. After paint was dry I wiped that grease off and then I could use an artists brush to apply yje yellow on the plow like Massey Harris had ysed. Without someway of covering tye letters on a painted unit you would have lost things. Just a heads up for someont thinking about this. You were not thinking about this as you did not refinnish the complete thing.
 
Never was a 7" row crop sweep, only even numbers and useing 5 sweeps like a cultivator set up for 40" corn rows was the 6" sweep was not wide enough to take out the weeds but the 10" was just too wide to get the wings in the ground when you woring at a 1-1.5" cultivating depth and in weeds they were more likely to plug. A 10" was at times used as the back sweep on that 5 sweep araingment on the 40" corn row to get a couple more weeds that would bypass the 8". For all 6" you would have to have used 7 of them between the rows and no cultivators were set up like that as you could not get the required spacing between the sweeps to work. First row pair with eing cut off so would not dammage crop as much then second row pair of 8" sweeps followed by last row single 8 or 10" sweep. And it was width of sweep and not spacing, a field cultivator used 3 rows of sweeps of 8" on a 6" spacing so a bit of overlap to get weeds. An 8" spacing would have required a 10" sweep and getting that wide hard to get in ground. Were you thinking a field cultivator or a cultivator for a 40" corn row and spacing id different that sweep width. The orignal row crop sweep of 6" would have a 2" long wing on each side, the way the 8" half sweep was made it was like having a 1" wing on tow side and a 3" wing on non row side. To have used all 6" sweeps you woyld have had on a field cultivator 4 rows od sweeps instead of 3 to get full weed coverage as with a 6" sweep you would have had a sweep every 4". More plugging.
 

Leroy
You must have replied to wrong post because I've never seen a sweep on a JD Van Brunt drill. And yes JD made many/many grain drills with a galvanized box
 

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