What is it with Old Corn Planters?
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Topic: What is it with Old Corn Planters?
Posted By: Oldwrench
Subject: What is it with Old Corn Planters?
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 7:08am
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I've been looking for a while for an old 2 row planter for sweet corn. Wow! I feel like Rumplestiltsken waking up in a time warp. Old junk horse drawn units are bringing +$,1000 and anything half way clean and working are closer to $2,000. Way back I cut up our old AC planter to make a very nice cart for the cutting torch. In my mind, these old planters are worth maybe $50 or so. Heck, I can't even find ancient hand planters for less than $100. |
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 7:16am
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what's old is new again ??? supply and demand ?? I don't know.... heck, the wife says to get rid of the 2 tons of 'miscellaneous pieces ' of steel I have. Scrap value is maybe $500, but she fails to KNOW the cost to replace it ! Or how handy a piece or two is, when 'something' for 'somebody' needs to be fixed, say on a Sunday afternoon....... ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Play Farmer
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 7:25am
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Seems to be a 2 row thing, guys like them for doing food plots. Today's Kubota owner can use a 2 row, they don't have tractor enough for anything bigger. Years ago I bought a **mint** JD 1240 4 row at an auction for $125. They had a couple of junk 2 rows as well. They were close to scrap condition but I figured if they were cheap enough I buy one for the tight areas. One brought $400, the other brought $500. Crazy. |
Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 7:48am
| something with old manure spreaders. Amazing what there asking |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 8:39am
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Farmer is right.. Its all the hunters and small city farmers doing food plots... 10 years ago the guy down the road from us, GAVE us an old 4 row JD planter...Fixed it up and kids have used it several times..... probably worth $$$ now. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 8:59am
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Lots 4 and 6 row planters get cut down/made into mounted 2 rows. Their on C-list here all the time, not cheap either! Edit; When I finally get retired from the day job I intend to start selling some sweetcorn. Will just use the 4 row 36" Kinze I plant field corn with. Or I could use the 2 row snap-coupler if I can find some plates that fit the seed better than the ones I have now.
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Posted By: Play Farmer
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 10:10am
Absolutely. I've been looking for one of those too, finally found what I was looking for for the $$$ I was willing to spend. That'll be another thread soon as it just came home Friday. |
Mikez wrote:Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 11:54am
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I have 2 double hopper Cole planters mounted on a 3pt tool bar I'd sell for $500. |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 5:46pm
Can you "elaborate" on the "OLD Spreaders" please ?
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Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 5:49pm
What model # of DEERE planter was "given" to your family ??
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 9:14pm
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seems like it was a 494 or similar... 4 round seed boxes with sheetmetal lids... two fertilizer boxes that were rotted out that were removed and scrapped... Just down to the basics..... even removed the markers and scrapped. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: jvin248
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2022 at 10:01pm
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. I spent a year watching planter listings. Finally found a rusty JD 290 that I could repair. Guy I got it from had chased it down a decade ago with the same problems of finding any. I got it set up and planted corn in the driveway last week to count the drops so I know it mostly works now. The supply tightness is not only caused by the hunters seeking to fulfill food plot hobbies, now it's common folks worried about food supplies (and rightly worried). However, the price of the twelve and larger planters seems to easily run eight hundred to a thousand a row, so when broken down to two-row units they are easily asking a couple thousand dollars. .
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Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2022 at 4:29am
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A lot of market vegetable growers using one and two tow planters.Price a new one and you'll see why the used ones sell for a good price. |
Posted By: BrianC
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2022 at 6:31am
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New Cole two row 3pt planter is $4000. Does anyone know this planter, good or not?
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Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2022 at 9:00am
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opps meant to say same thing. Older spreader is anything not new lol. But I look for 50s, 60s new idea because my grandfather sold them in that era and have parts for them.
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Posted By: rtwfarm
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2022 at 1:36pm
| Have several 2 row planters for sale. Ryan at 402-469-1738 |
Posted By: Steve A
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2022 at 3:41pm
| Same here. You can take an old cultipacker, disk, planter or grain drill, cut it in half to make them 8 or 4 fts and double your money plus, because they can pull it with a smaller tractor or ORV. |