I must be getting old , corn planters

buickanddeere · May 28, 2020

I recall when The two row mounted corn player was grandpa’s antique . The normal corn planter was four rows , the big guys used a six row and those farmers with an eight row were nearly crazy. How did you ever get something that wide through gates or parked in the machine shed ?

Sean Feeney · May 28, 2020

Guy on you tube farm's in Minnesota has a 60 row planter that one in picture looks to be 24 its crazy.

Bill(Wis) · May 28, 2020

We used a two row John Deere horse pulled planter through WWII (The Big One) and then, when the horses went away, we converted the horse drawn planter to tractor pulled. We joked about how it then took two people to plant. My uncle bought a new tractor with a three point hitch and had the neighborhood mechanic rig up a tool bar and mount two two row planters on it. He had the first four row planter in the neighborhood. One was a John Deere and the other a McCormack Deering.

SVcummins · May 28, 2020

wilson ind · May 28, 2020

what is the other YT site ??

rlp in Co. · May 28, 2020

The farmer that I worked for had a John Deere 7000 planter that was 60 ft. wide. It folded up to around 20 ft. wide, but it was not too easy to fold. Luckly one farm had 5 center pivots with no fences between them. I had to widen only one gate to get it in. The other farm with the biggest center pivot had no fences. I pulled it with a TW35 Ford that didn't even know it was back there. I'm not sure but I think it had been turned up. I later bought that Ford; biggest mistake I ever made. That planter later sold for $800 after the farmer died, and it was in perfect working condition! I did a lot of welding on the marker arms. You can see how long they are in svcummins picture. The guy that bought the planter is a Mexican neighbor that buys farm equipment and hauls it to Mexico. He cut it up and makes planters with 5 boxes. I estimate that he made 20 times what he paid for it. Trouble is, he has to bribe the border agents, at least that's what I call what they charge.

rlp in Co. · May 28, 2020

We left the planter outside but we took all the boxes off and stored them in the barn. The boxes come off very easily.

Jegs · May 28, 2020

I believe that is the MN Millenial Farmer, he has quite a few videos on YouTube, I'm a subscriber to his channel and it's pretty interesting and informative. Definitely worth checking out, he's got a great sense of humor too.

Sean Feeney · May 28, 2020

Yes that's him Zack Johnson

sourgum · May 28, 2020

Watched the MN Millennial Farmer pull one like that on YT. He videos from the inside of the cab while they are planting . The one computer screen shows him planting at 9 mph, he says the planter they are using in the video is a 40 footer. There are either 3 or 4 computer screens in the cab he monitors while planting plus buzzers and alarms the sound when something not going right. Hard to imagine a farmer planting at that speed and having everything work right.

ztrmowers · May 29, 2020

yea in my area if you do not have at least 16 row, your not with the program, 24 pretty common.

Part Time Pete · May 29, 2020

The guy I worked for as a kid had a two row John Deere planter. He picked up another one at an auction for $50. Our rainy day project one summer was to cut it in half and add it to the ends of the first one to make a four row planter.
We were big time then...

Jegs · May 29, 2020

Yup, he's in west central MN, 5th generation family farm.

buickanddeere · May 29, 2020

I should have mentioned Great Grand Father s corn planter.
It was two boards on a hinge with handles at the top. A seed box half way down one board . And a metal duck bill on the bottom that opened the soil.
I supposed that would be a single row corn planter .

ke8wo · May 29, 2020

I'm a retired engineer but grew up as a farmer kid on a smaller farm back in the day. I do watch a number of farming related videos and am constantly amazed at the size of the equipment that the BTO's have and even some near-BTO's have. It doesn't seem to compute in my mind that they can continue to invest many mega-bucks in ever increasing bigger, faster, more computerized/automated equipment and facilities in the interest of minimizing labor and taking advantage of market cycles, etc. Kinda like how can a B52, loaded with xxx tons of bomb and fuel actually take off and fly xxxx miles .. doesn't seem physically possible! But it is!

Bill(Wis) · May 29, 2020

I forgot about those. We had them for potatoes, too. I still have three of those hand corn planters in my shed for their worth as
relics although I only saw them used to plant in missed spots in the field. My grandfather, my father and I would go out right
after the corn came up and look for any planting gaps although it might have been crows rather than any fault of the planter. Were
those "the good old days"?

buickanddeere · Jun 1, 2020

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buickanddeere · Jun 1, 2020

Mac AR · Jun 1, 2020

I've got one that's very similar to that one. Still use it some, too. It's nice for filling in skips as Bill said. I got the bright idea one spring that I wanted to check-row some corn. I didn't have a check-row planter. So I made a wooden marker platform, marked off two acres of ground with it and a team of horses, and planted the checks with my hand planter. Best looking corn I ever raised, but I'll never do it again.

Mac

rew1953 · Jun 1, 2020

(quoted from post at 15:30:22 05/29/20) I'm a retired engineer but grew up as a farmer kid on a smaller farm back in the day. I do watch a number of farming related videos and am constantly amazed at the size of the equipment that the BTO's have and even some near-BTO's have. It doesn't seem to compute in my mind that they can continue to invest many mega-bucks in ever increasing bigger, faster, more computerized/automated equipment and facilities in the interest of minimizing labor and taking advantage of market cycles, etc. Kinda like how can a B52, loaded with xxx tons of bomb and fuel actually take off and fly xxxx miles .. doesn't seem physically possible! But it is!

My BIL just bought a new JD5000E, 100 HP with AC & heated cab. It has gps capability to program mowing, tilling, planting fields via computer program. Does not require any operator in cab at all. Damnest thing I ever saw. Glen can sit under a shade tree at edge of field drinking lemonade while watching his field being mowed. Has technology gone too far? It is beyond my comprehension now.

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