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1997 - Volume #21, Issue #4, Page #21

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"Planter Box" Coffee Table

Old farm equipment can be turned into beautiful furniture show pieces, says Jim Teeter, Clarksville, Tenn., who recently sent FARM SHOW photos of a coffee table he built using a pair of insecticide metering boxes off a Deere planter.
The 22 in. wide, 48-in. long table top is solid cherry and is bolted to the lids of the insecticide boxes so that it hinges up to open the boxes for storage. Each box still has the original 5-in. dia. cast iron chain sprocket used to drive the metering shaft. Between the boxes is a shelf where a toy Deere tractor is displayed.
"It has become quite a conversation piece around here and I'm very proud of it. Every-one who sees it wants to know where I bought it," says Teeter. "The boxes are off a Deere 1300A 6-row planter which my dad purchased in 1965. It was the very first 6-row 30-in. planter in this part of the country. We added no-till coulters to it and used it to plant no-till soybeans until the mid 1980's when it was retired. The insecticide and herbicide boxes were unique so we took them off and left them outside along a fence row. When I went to retrieve them the lids and boxes were filled with water and the bottom of one box had rusted out. I filled the bottom in with sheet metal and body filler, then sand blasted both boxes and painted them their original Deere green. I painted the chain sprockets yellow for contrast and put the original oversize Deere logos back on the boxes.
"My friend Darin Beck did most of the actual wood work. He had already built his wife a coffee table out of black walnut. I liked it so much that I decided to combine his talents for wood working with my love for farm machinery. We decided to build the table out of solid cherry because its color is a good match for Deere green and yellow.
"I built another identical coffee table which is on display at our local Deere dealership. I'm willing to build tables for others. They sell for about $800."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jim Teeter, 944 Rollins Drive, Clarksville, Tenn. 37040 (E-mail address: Farmature@aol.com).

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"Planter Box" Coffee Table AG WORLD Ag World 21-4-21 Old farm equipment can be turned into beautiful furniture show pieces, says Jim Teeter, Clarksville, Tenn., who recently sent FARM SHOW photos of a coffee table he built using a pair of insecticide metering boxes off a Deere planter. The 22 in. wide, 48-in. long table top is solid cherry and is bolted to the lids of the insecticide boxes so that it hinges up to open the boxes for storage. Each box still has the original 5-in. dia. cast iron chain sprocket used to drive the metering shaft. Between the boxes is a shelf where a toy Deere tractor is displayed. "It has become quite a conversation piece around here and I'm very proud of it. Every-one who sees it wants to know where I bought it," says Teeter. "The boxes are off a Deere 1300A 6-row planter which my dad purchased in 1965. It was the very first 6-row 30-in. planter in this part of the country. We added no-till coulters to it and used it to plant no-till soybeans until the mid 1980's when it was retired. The insecticide and herbicide boxes were unique so we took them off and left them outside along a fence row. When I went to retrieve them the lids and boxes were filled with water and the bottom of one box had rusted out. I filled the bottom in with sheet metal and body filler, then sand blasted both boxes and painted them their original Deere green. I painted the chain sprockets yellow for contrast and put the original oversize Deere logos back on the boxes. "My friend Darin Beck did most of the actual wood work. He had already built his wife a coffee table out of black walnut. I liked it so much that I decided to combine his talents for wood working with my love for farm machinery. We decided to build the table out of solid cherry because its color is a good match for Deere green and yellow. "I built another identical coffee table which is on display at our local Deere dealership. I'm willing to build tables for others. They sell for about $800." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jim Teeter, 944 Rollins Drive, Clarksville, Tenn. 37040 (E-mail address: Farmature @AOL.COM).

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