Lot of horse drawn equipment to identify

[Anonymous]

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?

[bradley]

Lynn Miller’s books.

[OldKat]

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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