Buffalo corn planter

[yessam]

can anyone give us some info on buffalo corn planters there a several for sale we never heard of them in the south thanks

 

[Leroy]

Thought they were a southern machine, definatly not from Ohio or Indiana.

 

[cydectin]

Made in Columbus Nebraska by Fleischer MFG. I don't think they build planters anymore but may build other equipment. Dad bought one in 1974 to no till with. Straight blade coulter with depth bands that turned with coulter followed by a shoe opener with a flat plate on front of shoe to till the row and the bottom of shoe had a round rod welded on that firmed the bottom of trench. Seed dropped and then a rubber press wheel ran in trench to firm seed to bottom. There were then two covering discs that could be adjuststed to throw dirt back in trench followed by a spring tooth harrow behind each unit to smooth it all out. They were OK but would throw slabs of dirt if ground was wet and then covering discs would roll slab back into trench and there would be air pockets above seed and cause corn to flower underground. This I think was it's worst problem. The one we had was a plate planter and they also built one using the JD finger pickup system. We used JD plates with the filler plate in the center.

 

[JMS/.MN]

I remember going to a U of MN seminar in So MN, Waseca area, about 1975-76. Gyles Randal, long time U of MN guy was the presenter...he said the only machine that matched the Buffalo No-till planter was the JD 7000.....regarding accurate plant population, and emergence.......so I bought a 7000! First of three by now.

 

[casecollectorsc]

Basically the same identical set up as Case chisel planter from late 60s.

 

[JDseller]

You need to know that Buffalo is out of business. Some of the line is now Bison equipment but not all of it. The next thing is there where several different types of Buffalo planters. The later ones used a JD planer unit on a Buffalo frame. The early ones where a shoe type that could have John Deere plate units above the shoe or Allis Chalmers units. The later ones worked OK but the earlier shoe ones had to be in the right ground or they would get a bad stand.
Bison Industries Inc.

 

[yessam]

Thanks for the info we were just wondering about them the wheeler dealer down the road from us has 3 he bought in from the mid west and peddling them.We are mostly White and JD in our area.

 

[Anonymous-0]

pretty popular in Ne for ridge-till planting, early planters were rigid, and later flex planters had individual drive that would sometimes slip and make skips, newers had finger pickup and center drive