whats your john deere planter model?

swindave · Jan 23, 2021

what model of john deere planters have you had, have , or used thru the years?
dad had several 290s and a 490
and my grandpa had a 494a,
whats in your barn?
thanks

Randy G · Jan 23, 2021

We have a 246 for sweet corn. Have had a 290 ans 490.

tomstractorsandtoys · Jan 23, 2021

Randy that is one very nice outfit. My first memory of a 246 is riding with my dad on a 2040 utility tractor. I had my leg the wrong place and when he raised the planter my leg was pinched very bad between the three point arm and the the seat. I did not want him to know what happened so I toughed it out untill he turned around and dropped the planter for the next round. Nothing broke but is sure hurt for a while. learned a good lesson about equipment safety that day. Tom

fixerupper · Jan 23, 2021

Dad started on this farm with a Deere 290 then graduated to a 490. After dad bought more land more than doubling the amount of land farmed he had a neighbor custom plant for him with a 494. The 494 was followed by a red planter for15 years when I took over. That planter was followed with a Deere 7000 a planter that was miles above the red planter for seed spacing and depth control. Then I had the farm custom planted by a neighbor who had a 7000 16 row. That planter was traded for a Deere 24 row followed by a Deere 36 row. They were getting sloppy and also when something goes wrong with a 36 row a 90 foot swath is either bare or not planted right. So I went back to planting my own with a Deere 7200 12 row and that is the planter I will finish my farming career with.

4520BW · Jan 23, 2021

7200 conservation and a 750 drill. Drill does not see much use since I went to 15" row beans.

tomstractorsandtoys · Jan 23, 2021

I have a 494A for my collection and plant corn with a 7200 4 row wide and have a 7000 4 row cut down to 30 inch rows for soybeans. I have the parts gathered up to build a 294A. Even have the small half fertlizer boxes off a 694. Tom

Mark Poss · Jan 23, 2021

290. Use it to check row corn and for soybeans

farmerjason1 · Jan 23, 2021

We got a 7000 6r30, 494a, 246 and a 8200 end wheel drill. The 494a was my grandfather's planter. I bought that back a few years ago from a neighbor that didn't take good care of it. It sat outside for years and all the seed boxes are rotted out. Another future project

mudcreek183 · Jan 23, 2021

John Deere 7000 plants today better then the day I got it, with all the upgrades I have done over the years.

mijohn · Jan 23, 2021

I have a 1240 plate planter that I plant soybeans with and a 1240 plateless that I plant corn with. started with a 999 when I was a kid and moved up to a 494A and then a 694AN. I only plant 100 acres now.

NY 986 · Jan 23, 2021

8300 single disc 21 X 7 with grass seeder. 450 21 X 7.5 Double disc with press wheels. JD 1750 6 row 30 inch dry fertilizer. JD 7000 12 row front folding 30 inch with liquid. Probably a little much now but we were working more ground when I bought most of those.

Bob Bancroft · Jan 23, 2021

Van Brunt drill. FBB something? 8000 series drill[I think that's the number] 1790 no till[again, I think that's the number!]

494A planter, 1750 planter.

GWIndy · Jan 23, 2021

Drills FB 17, 8300, N500C series air drill, DB860 15" spacing 47 row
Planters 490, 494. 1240, 1280, 7000 12 row, 7200 Front Fold 12 row, 1775NT 24 row

ejr-IA. · Jan 23, 2021

Still have 8 30 7100 3pt mounted.

Naylorbros · Jan 23, 2021

The first drill was an 6 foot EE my grandfather bought new. I then found a 10 foot FB-A that was given to me but needed a lot of work. It left last fall and went to the Holbrook area of Idaho. Current drill is a 12 foot B-A. The original corn planter was a 999L. Currently using a six row 80 Unit Planter set on 30” rows

SVcummins · Jan 23, 2021

John Deere LZ1010 unit drill on tandem hitch . John Deere LL147 on tandem hitch . I split the LL and made a semi mount hitch it’s perfect for drilling alfalfa out of the big box or grass seed

SVcummins · Jan 23, 2021

Does it run on tracks for transport or just in the filed

Alvin 41 · Jan 23, 2021

Started with 999 check row converted to 3-pt,494,1240,7000 ,and still using 12 row front fold 7200.

Bill(Wis) · Jan 23, 2021

First corn planter on our farm was a Moline horse drawn (2 row) followed by a John Deere 290 which was equipped to be pulled by horses or tractor. Currently have a John Deere 1750 conservation planter. Plants right through cornstalk debris or anything else for that matter. Will plant into sod. Since 2006.

Brendon-KS · Jan 23, 2021

#71 units in two-row and single row setups and a couple of #33 vegetable planter units. If we're counting drills I've also got a B 16x8 drill, and an 8350 20x8 drill.

Robert (ID) · Jan 23, 2021

4 #71 units mounted on 30 inch center on a 3pnt tool bar.. still plant a lil corn with em every year

B 16x7 I bought for $100 and drilled with it 2 days later

we had a 16x6 B when i was a kid.. as things got bigger and faster it got traded for an IH 10, I wish it was still here

TractorTucker · Jan 24, 2021

I've got a no. 7 loose ground lister planter. I got last fall out of a fence row and haven't used it.

GWIndy · Jan 24, 2021

That's the main frame, transport and planting

David from Kansas · Jan 24, 2021

I go back to the 1950's so have seen a lot of different styles and models of drills/planters. We (Dad and I) used an old two row, 40" lister on steel, trip lift to plant sorghum and two VanBrunt/JD galvanized box disk drills pulled in tandem; one was a 16-8 and the other a 16-10. When I started out on my own, I had an old JD/Vanbrunt disk drill, on rubber, galvanized box, trip lift, 20-8, and a JD model 730 lister, again 40" two row, later a three point mounted JD planter 4-row, lister type planter, don't know the model, still use it occasionally to plant sweet corn, graduated to a JD model 8300 20-8 disk drill and currently use a JD 455 25' folding double disk drill that I really like, to plant small seed grain crops. Don't currently have a planter as my son does my sorghum planting for me using an 8-row, 30" what I think is a model 1750 (or something like that). About all we see around here now are the mega farmers and their 60' air seeders.

deere4040 · Jan 25, 2021

450 grain drill currently. Hope to have a 7000 corn planter soon.

SVcummins · Jan 27, 2021

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