2 row planter

[Anonymous-0]

Did J.D. make a 294 2 row? Neighbor has a 2 row we want to get a book for so we can fix it up. Seed boxes are shaped like a 494 (tea cup shaped) J.D. dealer says he can reference to 494, but not to a 294. Any help would be great. Thanks , Gary

 

[Tim(nj)]

290 was the 2-row pull type. Could be somebody cut down a 494, which is common.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Tim,nj it sure is as prof. job if they did, this thing sure looks factory done. The tongue even looks to scale,however you could be right. Thanks again, Gary

 

[Jg20601]

Wengers has a 290 for sale at their website.

I posted this on another forum, that here we have 246 JD planters to fit IH and Ford tractors. The barn doors are 10 to 12 feet wide, a 2 row planter fits nicely in the barn corner and is out of the way till next spring.

 

[Leroy]

Never made a 2 row 294, has to be a cut down unit. Or it is a 290 and the seed boxes are the same for both the 290 and 494, 246 & 490 & 494A & 12XX series plate planters are all the same. boxes are all the same just the fertilizer boxes are different and a good welder could fabricate a mount to replace the small rusted out 290 fertilizer boxes with one larger one from a 494 planter. 290 was avaible with either a clutch lift or a very scarce hydrolic lift but the 494 was only hydrolick lift.

 

[Tim(nj)]

Leroy, my neighbor had a 494 (not a 490) that had a clutch lift on it. They pulled it with an F30 (no hydraulics, of course) back in the 50s, as the new Super M was the tillage tractor and they didn't think the C could do it. I don't know if it was factory or somebody did a really good fabricating job.

 

[Leroy]

Somebody had to have done a good fabricating job