I just purchased this planter at a local flea market. The seller said that he and his father used it on a Cub to plant corn, beans, and pumpkins. The seed plates are cast iron with COLE stamped in them. There is some dark blue paint remaining on the frame and wheel. I have searched Cole, Planet Jr. and McCormick-Dearing images and have not been able to find one that looks like this. Any help identifying this planter would be appreciated. Thank You.
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Agree, a Cole. Hitch looks like it might be a sleeve hitch (garden tractors).
Thank You for the replies. When I tried to find information or photos of it there were none that were blue and had a solid cast iron wheel. One of the plates are stamped "Small Corn" and has six cells. The newer models have a different type of drive system rather than a chain and sprockets. The newer plates have more cells which I am not sure are compatible with this model. I saw the seller at the flea market yesterday and he corrected his story about it being on a Cub. It had been on a Alis Chalmers "G" in the late sixties or early seventies. I am not sure sometimes about people's recollection of the past. I am still looking for more information about it especially what plates were used for different size corn seed and spacing.
You'll have better luck looking it up under a Brinly planter, looks to be a model KK-200. You should still be able to find a manual online you can save to a file, using a good search engine such as Google. It will list seed plates for it in the manual too. Seed plates listed in the Brinly manual will have OR before the seed plate number. There are many seed plates listed on ebay but have TP before the seed plate number. They still make new seed plates for them, some are sold on ebay, some can be found by just entering the seed plate number to a search engine. I have the best luck with Google.
I have a KK-200 I use some here at home and at a County Historical Farm Park where they let us plant a few crops to harvest at their Harvest Day Celebration in Sept. It did a real nice job here planting popcorn. I've also planted Sunflowers using the same plate but they are pretty thick, but that's the way they want them..
I have a KK-200 I use some here at home and at a County Historical Farm Park where they let us plant a few crops to harvest at their Harvest Day Celebration in Sept. It did a real nice job here planting popcorn. I've also planted Sunflowers using the same plate but they are pretty thick, but that's the way they want them..
Thank You DJ54. Without a doubt it is a KK-200. I have found a manual and now can look to purchase some seed plates. Also, the manual describes the sprocket placement for different feed rates. I would prefer to mount it on the Cub, but we have a garden tractor that may work as well.
Just curious if yours has the extra 16 tooth sprocket. All planters were supposed to come with one. I've actually had another one before this one, but got quite a deal on this near new one plus 6 plates, so sold the other one. But neither planter had the extra 16 tooth sprocket. I'd love to have one and saw one someone fabricated on ebay but refuse to pay $77 for it. I'm sure the one's for mine were left hanging on a nail in an outbuilding where they were stored, and probably got pitched.
I do not have the 16-tooth sprocket. I am buying one of reproductions. I would not if the planter cost a lot, but I got a pretty good deal on it and can afford to spend some extra money on it. The 16 will help me to use one of the plates that came with it for wider spacing.
One thing I forgot to mention, there are left hand and right hand plates that will fit so you have to watch. These use a right hand plate, turning in a right hand rotation. I found a pea plate at the Portland, IN. swap meet last spring for a really good price. Something looked odd about it at the time it just didn't dawn on me until after I got home, it was a left hand plate. I thought what the heck, I'll try it anyway. It worked great, and may have even helped on seed spacing a little further apart, but it is shaped completely different from the others.
Last year I sprung for a pumpkin seed plate, but found it picks up 4 seeds at a time instead of two like I was wanting. I guess I could cut/grind the pickup tabs down to only pick up two, just haven't convinced myself to start hacking on a $60 plate just yet. Just an FYI on the pumpkin plate if you'd eve decide you'd want one.
DJ54, all of the plates I have are right hand. There is one with 50 cells that is listed as Asparagus or other small seeds. The 16-tooth sprocket has arrived and looks like it is well made. It will help with a greater range of spacing. I will not be using the planter until next spring. Mainly for sweet corn and maybe green beans. Thank You again.
Sorry I didn't see your post sooner. I have the OR-126 plate I use to plant popcorn and ornamental corn at the County's Historical Park where they let us plant crops for a joint fall harvest days. With the 9 tooth on the drive wheel, and 12 tooth on the hopper it does a very good job of planting both, and makes for 7 inch plant spacing. I will say that probably 80% is a single seed drop with kernels from further back on the cob, kernels towards the end that are smaller you'll get a double seed drop. So overall it does a pretty decent job, much better results than using full sized farm planters like and old John Deere 290 using the smallest plate he had, and he has a BUNCH..!!
I too have an asparagus plate and it's pretty worthless, too small to plant any seeds I would normally start plants in trays for set plants. I do use the OR-20 plate to plant Sunflowers, but being they are a variety mix they are plenty thick. They are a lot smaller than the what I would call gray striped Sunflower seeds. At $24.00 per lb. would kinda' like to thin them down some. Would love to find an OR-20 really cheap and maybe cut it down some to plant maybe at half the rate a full OR-20 does. The guys and people ay they look great, but I think thinning them a bit may help them get a bit larger.
I think once you get it set to the proper depth on the shoe where it will drive it correctly you'll love it. It took me a few tries to get it set right. And I really don't need a row marker, if I follow my wheel tracks back from the previous row it will plant at a 36" row spacing. I guess it all depends on what you plan to cultivate, or till with to get in between rows. I use a couple different David Bradley 2-wheelers to cultivate with, with different cultivator set-ups with different shovels and it cleans it up well between rows.