Planters 4 Row Burch

[greenesayle]

hey, i recently purchased a farm's entire equipment lot and an old burch 4 row planter that came with it. it has the old steel spoke style wheels with about 1" rubber, metal round hoppers and lids, and is 3 pt hitch. the only info on the data plate i can read is the serial number which is 30999. the only other thing i can read is "P3" stamped on the sprockets. i can not find any information online about these planters as far as value and history. i do know it hooks up and everything works perfectly on it. i even planted 25 bushels of soybeans as a food plot this weekend with it. any help or info would be greatly appreciated!

 

[beenthere]

:welcome:
How about posting a pic of the planter (thanks for the pics).

The name "burch" is a new one for me.

But I found this Burch Mfg in Indiana. They may be able to help.

http://www.ritchiewiki.com/wiki/index.php/Burch_Farm_Implements_Inc.

 

[greenesayle]

Good Idea! here's the pics

 

[greenesayle]

also, the data plate says "Burch Plow Works"

 

[sweettractors]

I have planted hundreds of acres of corn with a 2 row Burch planter similar to this (mine had fertilizer boxes) Great planters. Ken Sweet

 

[greenesayle]

just found out from Burch Co that it is a model 108 made in the 60's

 

[lizzie13195]

sir,If you go to WWW.Burch 2Row planters MFG.NET.you will find what you are look for.

 

[OldMcDonald]

The link given in the last post does not work. I have a current thread about cage gears on the BIY forum and found this old thread during a Google search after I was told on another forum that these 4 row Burch machines had exactly the same type of drive as I am wanting to build for my own seed drill. Can anybody confirm that?