Markers on all the planters before the 7000 series like up to the 12xx series were all mechanical lift, no hydrolicks to them. Just need one cylinder with enough power to lift the planter. The only down side to a 494 except getting old and warn is getting harder to get parts for. The other thing is getting a seed corn supplier that realizes there is still a big customer demand for graded seed, In fact the area I get into all the time there are more plate planters than plateless. Thousand of plate planters. Fact is just a week ago I was told by the person that I buy machinery for the IHC horse drawn 2 row planters the demand for them has gone way up in last couple of years. And the larger farmers only want a McCormick 449-449A or 450 planter that was built in the late 50's and very very early 60's before anybody thought about a plateless planter. And that is the only planter made with a clutch lift and able to be set on 30" rows. And get plates for.
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