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Tom59 
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 Topic: First Year for AC 333 Planter?
Posted: 17 May 2021 at 9:59pm |
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When did Allis Chalmers come out with the 333 planter and was the 78 planter units first used on that frame ? I remember hearing about no-till in the early seventies, about farmers planting corn in grass sod. Most was articles in the Farm Journal and Progressive Farmer magazines. What got me thinking about it is I planted some wildlife corn patches for a neighbor Friday using an AC 333 four row planter. But the ground be chisel plow first by me and neighbor disk the ground using my Bush Hog 1432 disk. I comment to my neighbor “ I wonder how corn that planter planted since it was new ?” That got me wondering the age of it.
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tbran
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Posted: 17 May 2021 at 10:22pm |
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77/78 prior to that it was 600. Changes were 9" stroke cylinders and square tongue. The frames were an erector set - 3 pages of options.
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Tom59
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Posted: 18 May 2021 at 9:31am |
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Does a 600 look like a 333? How old are 78 planter units ? This old AC planter belongs to a another neighbor, they brought used in the mid to palate eighties. They quit raising ear corn by the late nineties. I try to download a picture of it, with no luck. Don’t believe I sent a serial number plate on the planter frame that was easy to see.
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DrAllis
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Posted: 18 May 2021 at 9:38am |
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As Tbran said, the 333 frame tongue is a rectangle tube, not a round tube like the previous 600 frame. The rest of the frame looks the same, but the true 333 frame lift wheels have 9 inch stroke cylinders instead of 8 inch stroke on the old 600 frame wheels. The 78 (disc opener) and 79 (shoe runner) Air Champ units came out in the late 1970's/early 80's.
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Tom59
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Posted: 18 May 2021 at 6:00pm |
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Ok, this is a AC 600 planter frame because tit has the round tongue on it. What would be the first year for the 600 ?
Learn something today the different between the two and I was calling it by the wrong model number. Thanks all.
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automaticdave
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Posted: 18 May 2021 at 6:26pm |
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Did the 9 inch stroke cylinders lift the row units any higher than off the the ground ? Dave
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DrAllis
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Posted: 18 May 2021 at 6:30pm |
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That was the reason....more lift.
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