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What is this and what is is worth?

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641Dave

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I figure it's lawn art at this point but I was just wondering.


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Worth lawn art price as it sits (scrap price).

Paint it green and yellow its worth easily $300.

Rick
 
Is there something that identifies it as a "corn" planter rather than as simply a planter......which could be used to plant myriad other types of seeds?
 
dave, i posted some pics of my 641 that i thought you might like on the ford site, it's back about 5 or 6 pages now. . chuck
 
Looks like a multseed planter. The depth adjustment and general cultivator spade sort of gives it away. I bet you it came with multiple plates for beans, peas, etc etc. I have a corn planter that has the other plant plates but this looks like a very general planter. It has John Deerish lines. Much like the JD potato planter of mine.
 
Its a planter, obviously, but not sure if its corn only or multi-seed. Whatever it is, its cute as the dickens, and I vote lawn ornament. Those spindly little wheels would be destroyed quickly if used now, but they add a lot to the attractiveness of the piece. Don't think I'd paint it- "they're only original once."

Or as the late Dick Clark would have said, "Nice beat, easy to dance to, I'd give it an 85."
 
dave, looks like a ford painted the wrong color to me, that's not the post i'm talking about. look back for the post titled 641dave pics. chuck
 
The sweep up front makes me think listing planter but didn't a listing planter use a bigger sweep, or maybe a small V shaped plow bottom? We didn't list in this area so I'm out of my league. Jim
 
For some reason even manufacturers called them "corn" planters. My IH 449/450 planter manual calls it a corn planter then lists plates for soy beans, beets, pumpkins, squash, lima beans, milo, sun flowers, and cotton.
 
Not worth more just that people will pay more if they think it is JD. When you get to youngsters in the city they use JD as generic for tractor, mention M-F, Allis, Olivr and they are lost.
 
I will bet that some of the cast pieces have a manufacturers logo
on them. Look around bearing areas, most cast their own and
had part # and logo cast in.
 
Yeah, I've seen hog oilers painted JD green and yellow and all of a sudden it's a JD hog oiler, worth a lot.
 
Because they were at first only designed for corn, then users kept figuring ways to use them for something else.
 
Wish I could see better and more views. Apears that it is not all there, should either have handles to control or a seat. The toung is definatly missing.Looks like it is about the same age as the 2 Black Hawk planters I am working on to get ready to go back in fields behind horses.
 
(quoted from post at 17:05:58 04/27/12) Is there something that identifies it as a "corn" planter rather than as simply a planter......which could be used to plant myriad other types of seeds?
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I'm with you Thurlow. Back in my youth my father had planters that he changed the seed plates to plant various crops such as
Corn,Cotton,Milo & Peas. He just called it a planter.
 
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