The Official Farming Thread...

[Bill G]

All this talk of planting with computers makes me think about the not so "good ole days". Anyone ever planted with a John Deere 999?

 

[jakethesnake]

Ol gearwrench. Very satisfied for the cash

 

[JimBear]

View attachment 458295Ol gearwrench. Very satisfied for the cash

Gear wrench seems to make decent stuff, I have 3-4 of their ratchets & some wrenches.

 

[JimBear]

All this talk of planting with computers makes me think about the not so "good ole days". Anyone ever planted with a John Deere 999?

I don’t recall the number, but it had round seed hoppers, round plates for different sized corn & a stem with a flat base & a flag out the top show you could tell your seed level.

Maybe a 493 or some such thing.

I planted in some spots with grandads JD 40 & his 2 row 3 point planter, no idea of the number on it.

 

[jakethesnake]

Planted a lot with allis charmers 333. I’d run one today if I had the correct plates. Great soybean machine

 

[Bill G]

I don’t recall the number, but it had round seed hoppers, round plates for different sized corn & a stem with a flat base & a flag out the top show you could tell your seed level.

Maybe a 493 or some such thing.

I planted in some spots with grandads JD 40 & his 2 row 3 point planter, no idea of the number on it.

This is a google pic of a Deere 999. We still have ours but she is in much worse shape. Grandpa used horses and planted with it. In those days it was a wire planter. Then when he bought a new Ford 9N is was converted to 3 point but someone still had to ride on it to drop the drags. As a kid we used it to plant a small amount of sweet corn.



Then was the Deere 490 which was a 4 row "rope drop". You had a rope strung up to the tractor that you pulled to lift and drop it. It was getting so worn it had trouble dropping drags so you either had to get off or have someone at each end. That one went to scrap



Next was a Deere 495. It was still planting went it went to the auction.

 

[Bill G]

Planted a lot with allis charmers 333. I’d run one today if I had the correct plates. Great soybean machine

My cousin planted with Allis planters until he got sick around 1987

 

[jakethesnake]

My cousin planted with Allis planters until he got sick around 1987

Never had much allis equipment but everyone around here had a 333. We set ours up on 15” rows and added 2 boxes to make it a 13 row. Had no till cutters up on the front bar. She was tough. Used to tie a pole with chains dangling off it to the weight rack and you’d dangle the chain over the last row you planted. Worked just fine honestly