Largest Allis corn planter you have seen

I have seen a 12r30 front fold and a 16r30 front fold bar painted blue with Kinze units. Both were on dealers lots.

Unit3 wrote: I have seen a 12r30 front fold and a 16r30 front fold bar painted blue with Kinze units. Both were on dealers lots.

Allis Chalmers corn planter ?  


Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 14 May 2015 at 9:25pm

Yes, both were AC bars. The 12r30 was AC orange and AC units. I remember they both had a huge hydraulic stacks with a million hoses running from them down on the hitch. I would love to see a 24r30 bar and also to watch it unfold.

Edited by Unit3 - 14 May 2015 at 9:46pm

Is his town Paton, Iowa?

24r30 DA385 front fold 390 bar. True flat land planter.

Edited by JET8070 - 15 May 2015 at 11:31am

don't know what brand this one was, but in the 70's, saw a 36 row planter being set down into a field by Fremont Ne. was carried by a helicopter, tractor was already in the field ready to be hooked up! stopped and watched for awhile.

the new planters of today are horribly expensive to buy and upkeep is also horrible! all the wiring, hoses, hyd's, tires, computers, connectors, meters! every year they hafta start 2 onths ahead of planting to do maintance, replace worn stuff (just a year old), clean all contacts, lube, re-adjust, replace cracked wires (mouse chewed too), clean tubes, replace most all bearings, fix tires, re-program putters/monitors! give me an old plate type planter any day...grease, clean drop tubes, match seed to plates, air up a tire, and go! takes maybe 1 hour if you work slow! I put 2 brand new tires on my 6-row last year, I see they are still holding air just fine! should last another 10 years! I paid $600 for this planter some 20-25 years ago, it has cost me about that in repairs since I bought it, and my corn/bean stands is just as good as the stands those $100,000+ planters do! mine came with a monitor, but only used it 1 year. everyone always coments of what a nice stand I have, they ask what kind of planter is use? when I say and old AC planted...I get the deer eyes in the headlights looks!

yeah...I did fergits the GPS! have ya seen....well I have anyway...a lot of people buying this precision stuff for planting and field mapping, and drive straight stuff...and GPS...and then the next year or 2 they are trying to sell the stuff and re-coop some of their money? I've been seeing a lot of that the last 4-5 years! hope yours keeps up Unit3!

back in the 80's pal of mine bought an 8550 with 12 row planter It razed up and turned 90 degrees to tow it down the road.

Allis Chalmers 390 At the 1981 FPS Demo'd it for AC. Largest in the world at that time with 24 rows. There were only two put together at that time. I had the show one at the FPS and the other was at the Gleaner factory in MO. Got to know a lot of great AC Corp. people. It was 3 yrs before anyone else had a 24 row planter. It was numbered 390 because it would plant 390 acres in one day.

how is that thing transported ?  does the maintaince staff have on board cabins ?

Mike, as large as that planter is in the pictures, it is ''only '' on a 60 foot bar. The DB 120 is twice as wide. It doesn't have as many units but it is still twice as big.

There used to be a 24 row here in Iowa just west of the intersection of hwy 9 and 63. They used it until a few years ago and updated it with a newer planter. It was advertised for a few months before it was sold. I would have loved to buy it just as a collectable but my All-Crops already take up too much shed space! lol

I do remember seeing it folded up and in the field, it was an impressive sight.

Were they the first 24 row planter?

The Deeres I saw may have been 2 12's put together but there were 2 of them with 24 rows and it was the spring of 77. Deere didn't go to production of 24 rows till after Allis though. According to what I have read, Deere didn't have a production 12 or 16 till 79.

Thanks Lynn. Bauer Built. Now I remember. Wonder if those DB planters were what Harry Stine was using for his ultra narrow row corn?