John Deere Planter ID Needed

[lloyd in sc]

John Deere planter... Where can I find photos to ID it. Looked on frame, seed bin, but not a number . Seed plate is old enough to list; "this side up for corn, cotton, kaffer corn etc". will try to post photo, soon as I learn how that is.

 

[midwstfarm]

It sounds like it definately a cotton planter. I have a 247 which is a 2 row 3 pt cotton planter. It has that ring in the bottom with the 2 ears right? But it acutally isn't a plate. It goes in the bottom and the plate sits on top. Some plates like milo require a false ring, that requires you to take the ring out.

 

[johns48jdb]

one row, two row or three row, mule drawn, mounted on the side of the tractor or three point hitch. give us some more info to go on.

 

[lloyd in sc]

Mine is a single piece, it has a v shaped connector w/ 2 bolts to clamp onto a horizontal bar. It also has another piece that goes to the front w/2bars that hook to something or other. The bottom plate is P2386 & the seed plate is H1255B. I need to rig both bins & drop tubes. Otherwise it's rusty but OK.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Sounds sorta like a unit planter of some sort. (Toolbar mounted) The 1255 plate is normally used to plant soybeans. Almost everything Deere made as far as plate planters used the type B plate. The plate doesn't really tell much about what model you have. A picture would do wonders