Where can you find a couple of these units in Alabama. Would like to find 2 or3 and build a planter

I don't know how far you are from Range(exit 77 on 65) but there was a 4 row unit for sale. I think it's the guy who owns Range Forestry Service. Unless it sold since feb 3 it was still there when we passed on our way home.

They're not 71 units but the Kubota place in Monroeville had an old JD 4 row planter. South Alabama Kubota and Rental (251) 575-3146


If you're determined to get 71's your best bet is to look at auctions up North. You can go there and buy 8 and 12 row sets for what somebody will want for 2 rows down here. Bring them home and use what you need and sell the rest. You'll only be out the time that way.

I would suggest JD7100 units as they are SUPER common and can usually be had for a song in a large planter configuration. 3 would be the max your new tractor would pick up though. Two would be better. A pull type 4 row or 6 row narrow would work well though. Lots of used no till attachments for them around cheap too. No till isn't gonna happen with a 71 or most any unit planter. Good luck.

I saw the planter Mr. Robert is talking about. I didn't walk up to it but it looked in good shape. The one on 41 in range is a pull type if I remember correctly. I'm sure it's Mr. Birch's. He quit planting cotton last year and had his equipment for sale. There is also an 8 row planter sitting in one of the fields that he planted. It's a red one. Not a JD. It's just north of his house on 41.

I’m selling my 6 row 30” pull type 7000 since I bought the drill if anyone’s interested

Honestly buy the time you built one you could probably just have bought a 7000 planter just the same

Look on Ebay. I would buy one that has been rebuilt.

Look online at RDH Outdoors. He does exactly what is mentioned above by buying big implements and cutting them down to "food plot" size. The stuff he sells is top of the line after he finishes with them. I just bought a JD 7100 max emerge no till 2 row planter from him with dry fertilizer attachment.

You need to take the above advise and loot at a 4 row 7000 or 7200 you could pull that no problem even with full fertilizer hoppers. You'll be farming next level with that vs. the old 71's because you can run it no-till.

Guy does this in Batesville, MS too. I've bought 2 from him so far. A 2 row and a 4 row. He advertises on CL and he's legit.