Food Plots Anybody looking for a planter

Dang man, I wish I did! That looks really nice and I could get it down my narrow roads to some of those honeyhole spots. Maybe add a little weight and throw some trash whippers on that thing and a feller'could no-till if the dirt was right.
 
How old is that planter? I would think it's really old since it's been a long long time since farmers planted only 3 rows at a time. I grew up on a farm but know next to nothing about row crop machinery since we raised cattle which tends to lean towards broadcast seeding for hay and pastures. Looks like a real good rebuild job he did though! I'm surprised you can get parts for machinery like that. Old tractors are easy because people restore them but the tools/implements are for work and very few bother to rebuild them which is a shame.
 
Hunter 257W said:
How old is that planter?
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Some are not really that old...far from vintage. As farmers go to bigger planting equipment, a lot of folks are acquiring the older (and I use this term loosely) equipment and cutting it down for food plotters and hobby farmers. One reason equipment like this is getting harder to find is people gobble them up at auctions, rehab them, and resell them (usually at a healthy profit as well).

They're still perfectly good pieces of machinery and compared to new drills/planters, can be a real bargain. The one shown looks like a nice unit for someone.
 
I wasn't implying it was too old to be useful. :) I like/prefer "old". The older stuff is much more rebuildable for guys like myself. I was just curious how far back you had to go to get reasonable sized planters like this for us "hobby" type guys planting for "varmints" aka deer. :)
 
Gotcha. I'd say <10 years in many cases. Some of those JD7000/7100 series, IH, and Allis planters that are being turned into 2-4 rows are really nice. When they come in for auction they might look a little rough but some of these rehab guys absolutely know what they're doing and can render one "like new."

Check craigslist in some of the row-cropping regions...they're posted pretty frequently.
 
So you are saying that a lot of guys are cutting the bigger planters into pieces so that they plant fewer rows? Hmmmm I'd never thought of that. All you'd have to do is weld on the attachment points to a 3-point hitch and you could make two 3 rows out of say a 6 row. Heck, if I had one of the bigger planters, I'd take that on myself. Just not sure that it's that necessary to plant in rows for deer in the 1st place. The option to do no-till planting and stop the constant cycle of exposing a new batch of weed seeds to sunlight every year would be nice I admit. :)
 
Hunter 257W said:
So you are saying that a lot of guys are cutting the bigger planters into pieces so that they plant fewer rows?
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They are cutting 8 and 12 row planter and making 2 and 3 row planters for people that own 3 pt tractors @ around 2500.00 each
 

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