2-Row Planter Helps Feed Wildlife

2-Row Planter Helps Feed Wildlife PLANTERS Planters 22-3-4 Harvey Malon of Rapid City, S. Dak., wanted to plant small 3 to 5-acre plots of corn and sorghum as food for wildlife on his ranch near White Owl. The problem was he couldn't find an affordable small planter to do the job so he built his own 3-pt. mounted, 2-row unit using row units off a 40-year-old Deere 4-row corn planter. With help from his brother-in-law Bob Hall he found a 4 by 6-in. toolbar at a junkyard, cut off part of it, and clamped the row units onto it. Each row unit came equipped with a steel seed hopper and a large, ribbed rubber closing wheel on back. He then fabricated his own 3-pt. hitch, using parts from a commercial 3-pt., and bolted it onto the toolbar. "It's nothing fancy but it does what I want it to," says Malon. "Hall did the welding and most of the assembly work. I use it to plant mainly corn but also sorghum, milo, and sweet corn on five different plots scattered up to 1 1/2 miles apart. To adjust seed population I simply change plates in the seed hop-pers. The small 2-row unit lets me turn sharp at the end of each row. To change row width I simply loosen some bolts and slide the row units over." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Harvey K. Malon, 635 Westwind Dr., Rapid City, S. Dak. 57702 (ph 605 343-2349).

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