It is difficult to switch row spacings, planting, spraying, cultivating, and harvesting equipment must match up.
Be careful of 'getting in cheap' for a year or two with wide row equipment, and then wanting to switch to 30 inch rows.
You might be ahead starting out with the 30 inch equipment right away. My words of experience/advice.
If you are planting corn and beans, I would consider double planting the beans at 1/2 rate. Plant down the field with your hitch set off to one side 9.5 inches, and come back in the same tracks, so you end up with 19.5 inch rows. Wide row corn works fine, but beans waste a little opportunity most years over 30 inch rows.
As to your question, the JD 494 and the H tractor will be a pretty nice setup for you. They should work well together and if you find seed sizes to match your plates; or plates to match your seed sizes it will do a good job. The H likely won't pick up a JD7000 planter, so you are going with the next best option there. I would not mess with an old Cyclo planter, people hated them around here, one of the reasons chi went belly up, no one bought they never got that design right until the 1200 models came out. Now they are pretty good, but those 400-800 models weren't much for corn. The 56 IHC plate planter was more popular in its day than those Cyclo planters.
The Red tractor with the Green planter you are planning on was -very- common around here in the 60s and 70s.
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