333 Planter w/ 74 Row Units
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Topic: 333 Planter w/ 74 Row Units
Posted By: wjohn
Subject: 333 Planter w/ 74 Row Units
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2025 at 11:28pm
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Dragged this 333 planter home. I had to bolt the tongue back on, air up the tires, grease the hubs, and put a big ol' stack of cylinder depth stops on the lift cylinders but it made the trip. It has a 176" frame with 74 row units and no-till coulters. The Lincoln Ag parts for milo in the boxes were a nice bonus. My plan is to try milo, soybeans, and maybe sunflowers. I mostly bought this for the row units since they will go down to 15" rows. My plan is to mount four of them to some sort of Snap Coupler toolbar on a CA or WD/WD45. I want to go about as narrow on the rows as I can and still cultivate with a CA, at least for the milo and maybe the soybeans. I didn't get any other sprockets with it so I may have to invest in a few of those once I nail down the row spacing and do the math on my speeds for the seeding rates. I know everyone says get John Deere 7XXX units but I couldn't even find a trashed sat-outside-for-30-years JD planter for any less than 4x what I paid for this (scrap price). I will have a fair amount of residue to deal with but definitely not no-till. Think these row units will do the job well enough for a few acres?      ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |
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Posted By: KJCHRIS
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2025 at 11:32am
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Nice score, We used 1 like it and just a light discing into stuble and true No-Till into alfalfa hay ground. Did you happen to get a bunch of sprockets along with it.? That's how you change planting rates. Its units are set up to use JD plates going by that plastic center adapter & plate in picture. Plates are like used in row units on JD's 490, 494, 494A 4 row. ------------- AC 200, CAH, AC185D bareback, AC 180D bareback, D17 III, WF. D17 Blackbar grill, NF. D15 SFW. Case 1175 CAH, Bobcat 543B, |
Posted By: wjohn
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2025 at 12:01am
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No sprockets or any other plates, unfortunately. It was one of those auctions where they may have been in some box, drawer, or other container who knows where that was sold separately. I do have a handful of plates I bought from another auction a while back that I need to look over. Thanks for sharing - I'm glad to hear that planter worked for you in those conditions. ------------- 1939 B, 1940 B, 1941 WC, 1951 WD, 1952 CA, 1956 WD-45 |