Brinly planter vs earthway planter

[That_cub_dude1847]

Hi all,
Looking into buying a new brinly planter. I've tried the earthway planter with growing corn an a few other vegetables. I can only say the results where satisfactory. It did better with the corn, spacing wasn't too bad but could be better. I tried growing rutabaga, broccoli, and brussel sprouts and yea it didn't do very good at all with the spacing and also it ground the seeds up and yes I modified it with the pvc pipe end cap so it wouldn't grind it up but it still managed to get behind the seed plate. I'll be honest I was a bit of a klutz and the other day accidentally drove over it with our big tractor to an unrepairable shape.
I'd like to plant with npk next year and the earthway planter with a fertilizer attachment is close to $300. I do have a small cub cadet I do little odd jobs with and was wondering if a brinly planter could compare to an earthway. I am only planning on planting corn, beets or radishes, sunflowers, and maybe pumpkins in row crops. Since a used brinly planter with seeder and fertilizer attachment goes for around the same price around me as a new earthway planter with the same attachments, would it be worth buying a brinly to replace my earthway with planting corn? Does it do a close if not better job to the earthway? The cool factor of having a brinly is driving me to buy it but if it really is bad at planting I don't think I'll buy one

[Radioguy41]

Have you considered a Cole/Planet Jr? I'll send you a PM. It is available.

[That_cub_dude1847]

Originally Posted by Radioguy41

Have you considered a Cole/Planet Jr? I'll send you a PM.

I have but the only problem is that they don't plant corn suprisingly

[Oak]

Does Brinly still make Planters?

I don't have one of these but I found them years ago. Does anyone know anything about them?

Cole/Planet Jr. copy
http://www.tewmfg.com/PDF_Files/TEW_JR_2015_Flyer.pdf

Cole 12MX copy
http://www.tewmfg.com/PDF_Files/TEW_MX_Flyer_2015.pdf

[That_cub_dude1847]

Originally Posted by Oak

Does Brinly still make Planters?

I don't have one of these but I found them years ago. Does anyone know anything about them?

Cole/Planet Jr. copy
http://www.tewmfg.com/PDF_Files/TEW_JR_2015_Flyer.pdf

Cole 12MX copy
http://www.tewmfg.com/PDF_Files/TEW_MX_Flyer_2015.pdf

They do not unfortunately. If they did however, they'd make an absolute killing.

The Cole/Planet Jr. is a small set up, usually set up bolted to a tool bar to be used in a 2 row or even 4 row arrangement. It's design is nearly or over 100 years old and honestly the best push planter to ever be manufactered on top of the earthway. Brinly actually did remarket a planet jr. planter with a sleeve hitch as their vegetable planter. But like I said, they don't plant corn unless you have a special attachment that I don't think is manufactured anymore by Cole but was by Planet Jr when it first came out. They are really really good for small vegetables like carrots, beets, radishes, and other things like that. You'd have best luck finding a used Planet Jr online and making your own sleeve hitch. It was marketed back then as a 300 or 300a, they are pretty readily available. Cole actually does make the 300a fully as its original design as a push planer like how planet Jr did back then but for $1000. Id rather buy an original for like $300. I'll include a pic of the brinly sleeve hitch, and the planet jr and cole in their push variants. They all use the same parts.

As for the 12mx, I don't know much about it but you can find tons of videos for them on youtube. They seem to be just a much bigger version of brinly's old planters and are usually only pulled in a 1 or 2 row arrangement. I've kicked around the idea of using one on my cub, which is a 62 original, and found it may be too heavy for it because these are really only popular with compact or utility 3 point tractors. It weighs a couple hundred pounds and loaded down with maybe 50 lbs of seed and fertilizer may be enough to get the front wheels off the ground.

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[finsruskw]

I don't think Brinly makes much of anything anymore.
They used to show up at the huge Portage, WI show every year with a bunch of returned stuff that they auctioned off but I have not seen them there for the last few years.

I was able to buy a few new 10" and 12" plowshares a few years ago and their parts then were very limited. I was told at that time they would soon be no longer to get the shares.

[Farmall450]

Originally Posted by finsruskw

I don't think Brinly makes much of anything anymore.
They used to show up at the huge Portage, WI show every year with a bunch of returned stuff that they auctioned off but I have not seen them there for the last few years.

I was able to buy a few new 10" and 12" plowshares a few years ago and their parts then were very limited. I was told at that time they would soon be no longer to get the shares.

Huh, that's weird, since they still make plows.

I doubt I'll ever wear mine out, but an extra would be nice.

[West Valley G]

I used this seeder in our commercial gardens for 12 years and it was
fantastic. That said I think I still used the old earthway for corn or
just seeded the corn by hand as we rarely sold corn on the market.
The seeder and the many seed wheels we bought were worth every
penny. But again this was a lot of seeding and commercial.
I just grabbed this link to show you what I was referring to. Not
because it was the best price. I didn't do any research on it.
Just going on an ever fading memory.

Ken

https://www.harrisseeds.com/collecti...Jang%20Seeders

[Sergeant]

The Brinly planters, when they were In production, were actually built By Cole, and Brinly just stuck their name on them.
Brinly still makes some ground engaging attachments
https://brinly.com/product-category/ground-engaging/