Allis Two Row Corn Planter

Luremaker · May 20, 2010

barrybro said:
Indian corn was pretty much a bust. Very wet, a lot of the corn was moldy.

Pumpkins were good, not great. Again very cool wet summer in michigan.

Mums were good (same as above).

I now am also harvesting chickens.

We had similar weather here last summer. That's too bad about the corn. I may plant a little Indian corn this year. I'll be planting a little over two acres of sweet corn this summer. So hopefully we get a little more heat.

trac · May 28, 2010

I have an Allis Chalmers 2 row snap coupler planter that looks different than yours. It has seperate fert opener disc that go along the seed row. It also has markers to follow the center of the row for the next pass. Didn't realize there were so many differences. I'll try to get a picture on here to show ya. Just used it to plant field corn yesterday. Trac

trac · May 28, 2010

Excuse the rust and duct tape but this thing really gets used.

tlh178 · Jul 24, 2010

i too just brought one of these two row models. it has been converted too a 3pt. would like too get the manual for this unit. i don't understand all the sprockets it has. i'm guessing it has too do with rate of seeds?

50's Farmer · Aug 20, 2024

zionview said:
We had 2 of them in the sixties that we eventually built a toolbar and made a four-row mounted planter out of them. You can aquire plastic 24 cell plates to put in inplace of the steel plates, if that's what is in the planter now. They are fairly accurate and stay in the ground well, but the runner-type opener is best used in conventionally tilled soil, meaning plowed with a bottom plow or rototilled. They will not work well at all with surface trash where the ground was chisel plowed or if you are trying to no-til. The fertilizer attachments were notorious for rusting out, even with end-of-planting cleanout with water and compressed air and applying diesel fuel or light oil to the inside. We solved that problem by switching to liquid fertilizer with saddle tanks on the tractor. We got plastic plates at the A-C dealer and seed dealers and amassed quite a collection, as I upgraded to the #71 disc opener unit on a no-til frame and did much custom work over the next 16 or so years. The #71 unit was similiar to these old units, but were the disc opener type. We were able to plant at about 3.5 MPH with that old planter and get a good consistent seeddrop. I see yours has already been converted to 3 point hitch. They were originally snap-coupler. If you were fortunate enough to get the owner's manual, it will tell you the different sprocket settings to determine planting population and fert. amounts per acre. They are a nice, simple planter to maintain and operate. Looks like you got one in excellent shape!

We had a new one in 1952, I grew up with one we had plates for all vegtable crops. We truck patched 10 acres using a Allis-Chalmers WD-45 plow, disk, cultapacker and a CA with planter, cultivators. The planter with row markers was a great tool saving many many hours of hand planting.