Back from my trip, look what I found. (Pict's)

Started off this morning by heading to Waterloo, Nebraska to check out a John Deere 494A 4 row planter. The gentleman is asking $250 for it. Comes with bucket of seed plates and seed box extenders and also a manual plus some other parts. Looks to be in good shape so I am considering buying it. Check out the pictures and tell me what you think.
I then went up to Stanton, Nebraska to look at even more machinery. This is what I found. The gentleman up there has 5 old John Deere Cultivators that I am interested in. All are ABG 200 Front-Mount Row-Crop Cultivators. He is asking $75 a piece for the cultivators. He also has a John Deere 60 for $1000. Said that it was running 5 years ago. One flat tire on the rear that may need to be replaced, but the tractor looks really good and straight. He said that it was always inside when the previous owner had it and so he kept it inside too.
He also has these old John Deere wheels. Could someone please tell me what these went on i.e. tractor or implement.
He has 8 old NOS never used John Deere spoked wheels. They still have the dealer tags on them. One had an alluminum tag that read 1955A (Part Number?) on it. He was asking $50 a piece for the wheels.
What do these wheels go on?
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He also has an old IH tractor from the 1920's. It isnt stuck and he is asking $600 for it. Looks to be complete. That would be a lot of fun to own.
Well, what do you think? What should I buy first?
Thanks for reading!
From Nebraska,
Andrew Kean.

Don't think I would let the 60 get away. I think the other tractor is a 10-20

looks like you had a lot of fun! I wont tell you what to buy, but Im glad to see you have such fun, Thanks for sending all those nice pictures,. Did you take the old ford pickup for the trip today?

You must have got out of Stanton in time, been blowing snow all afternoon and still blowing tonight. Hope your trip home was ok. If you need help next time let me know. chris

That tractor is a mccormick deering model 10-20. for 600.00 bucks that is a steal, the wheels alone are worth that! Bob

Thanks a lot Chris!
Yea I left around 2:45 from Stanton. Though I better get out before I get snowed in! With all of those hills It was a little intimidating with all the snow blowing and drifting. But I made is home safe and sound.

If that -60- cranks over, think it would a good deal. If that planter isn't completely wore out, and with all those extras, sounds good, but a little high. 4 row planters aren't much in demand anymore. I had a 494, as liked it. The McCormick sounds good at that price, if you got the $$ and the room. It wasn't a great day to be out cruising around here.

I paid $180.00 for a 494a with no-till colters and big boxes. It was on a sale about 6 miles from where I live. Planning on planting my own sweet corn.

i would say its a 15-30 mccormick.

Those spoked wheels were implement wheels used on wagons, plows , discs etc.

I would get both tractors for sure as long as the heads and blocks held antifreeze and/or weren't cracked.

OK, there were like a bazillion 494 planters made in fact almost everyone I knew growing up had one but not one that I knew of used liquid fertilizer since it was new age technology and I do believe that is a stainless steel tank and if you"ve priced stainless lately it will probably equal half the cost of the planter. Front mount cultivators were as common as shoes in those days since weed chemicals were pretty much non exisitant now with that said with scrap prices going out the roof they"re becoming extinct because of scrappers gleaning the back roads. I would offer scrap price for them and if you"ve ever put a set of front mounts on you would put them out for the trash man. The 60 is pretty much right on and the 10-20 would make some money as a spare parts machine. IMHO

From the extra band around the front of the fuel tank the McCormick-Deering looks like a 15-30

Buy it all is my advice. The cultivators could get in big demand if (when) the economy goes in the tank. The same for any good old 2 or 3 bottom sized gasoline tractors and related equipment.Those old gassers can run on wood gas(free fuel for the cutting).

It was a lot of fun Larry! I didnt take the pickup as it likes to drink fuel and I would hate for it to break down somewhere. Also the heater doesnt work in the truck. I drove my 1995 Dodge Intrepid as it gets way better gas mileage and has heat. The heat was much needed as it was cold today and snowy. Once I reached Stanton it started snowing and by the time I left it was coming down pretty hard and was very windy. The snow was starting to drift across the roads as I was driving away. I was glad I made it home before the storm really hit. Snowing good here right now, about 5 inches already. Its all part of the adventure of finding old tractors and Implements, so the trip was totaly worth it!

The 60. Hands down.

Aaron

That tank on that planter is NOT for fertilizer and it is NOT stainless steel, it is aluminm and is for banding a preemerge weed killer in about a 10-14" band over the row, I did not see any fertilizer boxes but the dry fertilizer for the later 494A planters hold 450# each and the seed boxes hold over a bushel of seed each and you put those seed box extensions on and you are overloading the planter. Now the earlier ones had the same boxes as the 494 with fertilizer being 350# and those extensions making the seed boxes the same size as the later ones without. The earlire 494A and 494 had a gearbox in for the speed settings while the late ones had all open sprockets to change speed. The newer ones had a axle that was adjustable to be able to be set for either narrow or wide rows, the older ones you had to buy the correct axle for the row width you wanted. I hava a 1957, 1960 and a 1961 494 and a 1969 494A setting here along with 4 of the 290 and 2 of the 490 planters and a 450 planter that is the first model 4 row planter that JD built starting sometime in the early 30's and solt thru 1942 when the 490 came out.

JD 60 new rear tires will run 800 buck and up so figure this in with a lot of other goodies.