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Ancient IH corn planter

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Mark

06-08-2003 17:48:13




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Folks,

I really need some help from somebody who knows old equipemnt. I have this old International 2 row corn planter and when I got it, the outside paint was long gone....so i have no idea what model it is. I only learned it was a International after I removed the seed hoppers and saw the IH casting on the drive gears.

I THINK it was a horse drawn planter or a very early tractor planter. It has no fertilizer boxes and if it had levers and a seat...they were gone when I got it. There are 3 cogs on the drive axle and 2 on the seed axle. I have had it for nearly 20 years and drill my sweet corn and half runner beans with it. I am trying to find Milo plates so I can drill some in a food plot for turkeys (HELP!). I would also like to find a seed plate reference guide if such a thing exists..... forget the local IH dealer....what a nerd!

Can anybody offer a guess as to what model planter I have and where I might find information on it. Thanks.

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Hugh MacKay

06-08-2003 19:21:37




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 Re: ancient IH corn planter in reply to Mark, 06-08-2003 17:48:13  
Mark: I have the book 150 Years of IH by CH Wendel. There is quite good pictures on some of those old horse drawn planters. The most recent one being the model 102 and built from 1927 to 1946. In reading this it seems as though there are only 2 others being the no 1 built from 1911 to 1925 and the no 8 built from 1918 to 1931. There are also tractor corn planters with seats on them. The main difference between horse and tractor machines I can see is horse machines all had wood tongues whereas the tractor models were all steel. He also states IH built 375 different planter models and variations, so I suspect there were more horse planters than he has shown pictures of. My bet also is there was only a handful of seed metering units and if you can find numbers on those it may be more valuable than model numbers. Come back and confirm or deny anything I have said.

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Okla/Kans Bill

06-08-2003 19:48:08




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 Re: Re: ancient IH corn planter in reply to Hugh MacKay, 06-08-2003 19:21:37  

Does it have a wood toungue or metal as Hugh asks. and by the way , Hi Hugh. You state you use it to plant seed corn. How do you set it in the ground with no handle or trip? What are the dia of the wheels. Is it a furrow opener, or a hoe type planter. Answer these might help us to help u. I have a IHC horse and tractor planter. They are practidally identical cept the tractor planters wheels are wider rims, has a trip mechanism, and a crank extending the length of the metal toungue which u crank in or out ( I have nevr figgured which does what, and ivehad it since I was 18.). The seed plates is the same, the setup, at least under the seed boxes is the same. I think I have a late model horse planter, and an early model tractor planter, I dont know

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Hugh MacKay

06-08-2003 19:57:33




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 Re: Re: Re: ancient IH corn planter in reply to Okla/Kans Bill, 06-08-2003 19:48:08  
Bill: Mark is the guy with the planter not I.



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OKla/Kans Bill

06-09-2003 15:30:07




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: ancient IH corn planter in reply to Hugh MacKay, 06-08-2003 19:57:33  

Sorry Hugh, I knew that, just rread your pst to see what your advice was and forgot to go up when I put m own in



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Hugh MacKay

06-09-2003 16:27:07




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ancient IH corn planter in reply to OKla/Kans Bill, 06-09-2003 15:30:07  
Bill: You don't have an exclusive on that trick, I think we all do our share. In particular we guys that never learned to drive a computer until later in life. I always charge it up to the fact I used to get a kick out of my grandfather who never learned to drive the car until later in life. He used to hold the old 6 cylinder Chevy standard 3/4 to the floor and back out of garage riding the clutch. There was an old ice house directly behind him. My dad said one day," we better tear the old ice house down as someday your grandfathers foot is going slip off the clutch, and he will go right through that old building." Best not to have anything in his way when that happens. You see, we never thought there would be new things for us to learn to drive later in life. The young guys on here laugh at us also. Always a payback.

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