Corn Planter - Eureka, MT
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T0SHEA
N 48° 54.337 W 115° 04.982
11U E 640473 N 5418735
One of several corn planters in the collection, this one is near the highway in the second row of equipment from the west.
Waymark Code: WMV8DX
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 03/13/2017
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Someone had managed to gather together about 60 farm implements and wagons and has decided to put them on display. The vast majority of the farm implements are very old horse drawn machines. The collection includes plows, cultivators, harrows, discs, mowers, corn planters, farm wagons, potato diggers and planters, a hay loader, a manure spreader and two road graders. The display is immediately north of Highway 37 and 1.2 miles west of Highway 93 which runs through Eureka and north to the Canadian border. The site appears to be accessible 24/7/365, at no charge.
A couple of hints, such as the style of the wheels, suggests that this may be a John Deere. It is quite similar to the John Deere No. 999 planter, though they made quite a number of different models. A two row planter, it has marking discs which may be dropper on either side to mark the spacing for the next row. Ground driven, the mechanism can operate at differing speeds by changing the drive change among several different sprockets. These were originally to be horse drawn.
