Cole #12 planter

[Slim140]

I been looking for a decent 1 row planter but didn't want to put a lot of money in one. We have a 2 row but it would be nice to have a 1 row for small things like the garden or deer plots. My wife ask me to take a basket of goodies to a friend yesterday who recently got home after breaking her hip. Her husband buys and sells anything. I was talking to him in their kitchen and looking out the window at all his merchandise and saw a corn planter in the shed. I ask was it for sell and he said yeah, ask him what he wanted for it and it was way less than I would have thought and long story short it was in the back of the truck in no time. It has 4 seed plates and 3 extra gears with it. I'm gonna take it apart and paint it and get it right. I need to make a fast hitch on it for use with the Cub. Anybody have a Cole one row with FH I can see some pictures of?

 

[Slim140]

Don't look to close in the first picture at the toolbox on the truck, it has a weld seam in the middle where I cut 9" out of it and welded it back together cause it fit a full size truck and now it fits a small truck :lol:

 

[Slim140]

Found pictures of a hitch. I remembered my brother has one of these planters for his 140.

 

[Slim140]

Had a FH spike from something else and got my adapter made.

 

[Indy4570]

a used and new parts supplier just got a ton of NOS parts in for these planters, not sure if I am allowed to say the name here.

 

[Don McCombs]

Just whisper it.

 

[Bob McCarty]

Put it the Vine and you'll be okay.

 

[Slim140]

Started unbolting today. I’ll get dimensions of the FH spike in a day or two. The only thing really wrong with this planter is the fertilizer cutoff band is rotten. Guess I’ll make one out of stainless.

 

[Slim140]

Test fit the fast hitch prong and got the rest ready for burn, blast & powdercoat. Also found a piece of stainless sheet metal to make the fertilizer ring out of.

 

[Slim140]

Fertilizer cutoff band is done.

 

[Slim140]

Made new shafts out of stainless as well.

 

[Slim140]

Got all new stainless hardware now just waiting on paint. Can’t rush someone to paint when they doing it for nothing :lol:

 

[Slim140]

Made 6 more small pieces for this planter out of stainless as well.

 

[Slim140]

Just received this picture from the powdercoater.

 

[Slim140]

Going together, waiting on hoppers to be painted.

 

[Dale Finch]

I don't think you should allow that beautiful thing anywhere near the dirt!! :lol:

 

[Slim140]

Got the silver back earlier today. Decal kit should be here today or Monday. Now to find 10 more for the price I gave for this one :lol:

 

[Slim140]

Before & after.

 

[Slim140]

Got the other lid in today, the last and final piece. That lid was more than half of what I paid for the planter :shock:

 

[PoleBean]

I know this is an older thread but I recently bought an old number 12 Cole planter like yours, and in about the same shape yours was when you bought it. You did a really nice job and I would like to ask you a question about removing the press wheels as mine are locked up.