That being a 247 means not as many as the 246 that was corn only, not combination corn & cotton. So I know nothing about the seeding boxes as they were not sold in my area so you may have problems with parts for that part, don't know. Regular corn boxes might fit, don't know. The 246 was a very good planter and the 246-247 was the only model actuall 2 row mounted planter Deere ever made. Just remember that you cannout plant all seed out of box and at the end of planting that one acre you still have to have twice as much seed still in the box to make sure it is getting seed to plates as what your acre will take. That planter can be set for 28" rows up to 42" rows in 2" increments. For the animal feed it would be good to set it for the 28" rows to get more plants for them to eat and use a high population rate. For harvest figured about 3 acres per bushel or 1/3 bushel per acre but for what you want figure 2/3 bushel and that would still give you a third bushel devided in two boxes to make sure you have enough seed in box to fill plates. When we were getting close to end of planting and getting close to end of last bag of seed I would stop every hundred feet and check amount of seed in box and move remaining seed around to where the plate could get ahold of it, the plate will push the small amount of seed away from where it needs to fill the plates. And remember if you are using the corn plate setup in that box a plate for the flat kernels will not plant a round kernel and vice versa. also a plate for a small kernel will not plant a large seed, the large plate will chew up small kernels with more than one trying to get in a cell at a time and that cracked kernel will not grow. So you would have to do a pretty good job of hand grading the corn from your neighbors bin and you would have to go through at least 5 bushels to get enough of any one size to match what plates you will have. Graded seed is not avaible anymore at a lot of places so you might have problems there as well. All avaible is mixed sizes and rounds and flats for the plateless planters. Same as would come out of that bin. Now if you could use the cotton feature I have no idea how that would work. I have never seen a cotton plant or seed. I don't know if a cotten seed is round or flat or of different sizes so no way to compair how corn seed would go through a cotton plate. In my area that would be a very good price for that planter if in decent condition. We planted close to a hundred acres a year for many a year with a 246 on both corn and soybeans before we got a 4 row planter
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