Lot of horse drawn equipment to identify

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  • December 6, 2011 at 2:58 am #43277
    Anonymous
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    I leased some land from a retiring farmer and his wife. On one of the places is a line along a fence of old equipment. All of it is horse drawn , there are several pieces of each, planters, rakes, cultivators, about twenty in all. My daughter is a freshman in high school and in FFA, and is going to restore some of it as a project, starting with a planter. It is Deere, two row with a seat in between the boxes. There is a number on the front where the two main arms come together, B641-A, John Deere. I know that might be a part number and not a model. Most of these pieces were used about the time tractors came in to the picture, and may have been adapted. Does anyone know where I can go for info to identify and maybe find pics of any of this stuff so we know what we are dealing with and how it’s supposed to look completed?

    December 6, 2011 at 1:04 pm #70614
    bradley
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    Lynn Miller’s books.

    December 21, 2011 at 7:20 am #70613
    OldKat
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    If I were you, I’d check with the Ranching Heritage Center … or what ever it is called at Texas Tech Univ. I know they had a bunch of equipment at one point, maybe 12 or 13 years ago. They might have someone that has researched that stuff.

    The Panhandle Plains Museum at Canyon, TX had a ton of stuff they had restored; that was probably 30 years ago. Not sure what they have up there now, but when I lived up that way I use to drop in from time to time. At that point in time, there was a guy that worked there who had done most of the restoration on their wagons (probably had 30 of them or more) and some farm equipment. He was a wealth of information and had a ton of books and periodicals that he had collected for reference work in restoration.

    I would also just google it using as much information as you have about the equipment. Amazing what will sometimes come up that way, including links to websites about restoration and / or books etc on the subject. Taking this stuff to an Ag. Mech contest by any chance?

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