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wc missouri | Has anyone ever seen one of these pieces of equipment or could tell me what happened to the orginal MFG? The neighbor has one and it does an excellent job on our soils here in West Central, MO. Just currious I have tried to buy it now for 5 years but he won't let go of it.
Thought someone might know what is up with that company if they are even still kicking in Arkansas |
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| They were bought out in the last year or 2. Look at wilrich 1400 or 1403, also sold as case 568. |
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Jackson County, AL | The last one we had was a NOBLE but seems like they became Wilrich. We still have a 14ft Forrest City that never gets used. Very heavy built. |
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Franklinton, LA | Forrest City Machine Works of Forrest City, AR went out of business and their assets were purchased by House Implement of Cherry Valley, AR. |
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E Central Ar | I have one and I love it
another member here gave it to me last yr
I don't farm any I just plant some rye and millet for hay and I like to work the ground at least once a yr sure makes it nice and smooth for running a mower over
maybe he will see this and give you some input on where you can get a good used one
NO I won't sell mine
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| You can find good used forrest city or W and A dualls all over the south at dealers, or sales. The bakers store in arbyrd had both a forest city and w and a both on the lot the other day. But the prolem is, they are going to mounted and most all will be 12 row 38" spacing. But that could be shifted if you took the time. |
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Manila, Ar | They would be impossible to haul long distance, without taking them apart.............I would be safe to say if you could come down south and look in any farmers old equipment inventory there will be more than you could haul away...........:) |
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Tennessee | If you buy a Do-All, buy a Wilrich or Case 568. They are built heavier than Forrest City Do-All's. I've had both as most in the South have. I think the Forrest City does a little better job.
Sold a 6 row Forrest City that was wore out for $1000 last year. Bought a cherry 8 row Case 568 for $2500 a few months after that. Sure do a better job than a disc though.
Edited by zkeele 5/31/2011 22:10
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WCIN | OK, I may be wrong here, but all the do-alls I have seen down south do not have shanks. Just a reel, a harrow and a drag board. Up here (in my area anyway) a Do-all had 3 rows of field cultivator shanks, a reel, a harrow and a drag or leveling board. They did a great job. The IH and Noble doalls only had 2 rows of field cultivator shanks so trash became an issue. I used to be a Forrest City dealer and have tried to get shanks for doalls from the new owners for months.(they don't have any) I don't think they are very aggressive on keeping the Forrest City line going |
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West Union, Illinois | If you have a Do-All you don't need a hobby. There is always something broken to work on. Admittedly, ours was probably not big enough for the tractor. We have a 15 ft, a 19 ft, and a 26 ft. They do a great job, especially with rolling baskets attached. But every hour you get off and walk around to see what bolts are broken. With Forrest City out of business I wonder about the availability of critical parts like reel blades and cultivator shanks. I just realized I don't think I have a photo of any of them. THAT should tell you somthing. |
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Crawfordsville, Arkansas | I'm 30 miles from where Forrest City's machine shop was. I bet I could count on one hand the number of Forrest City do-alls in my area and have 3 or 4 fingers left over. A CaseIH 568 is a much better piece of equipment.
I can't speak for all southerners who own do alls but we use ours to slick up a field for planting or drilling. Usually run behind a disk or field cultivator. There's no real need for front shanks stirring up clods just so the chopper and harrow has to beat them back down. Honestly I don't know of one do-all with shanks on it in my area and I'm in an area where EVERY farm has a do-all. We had 2 actually until a month ago when I got tired of looking at it and moving it around every time we mowed grass. Kept the better one and sold the other to a friend for $1,000. It was a 25' CaseIH 568. Needed a few parts but was usable like it was. |
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| We run several do-alls. 40' pull type stays at our gumbo operation, and an 26' with shanks for loam. I believe eldridge supply in east arkansas, and Willie German Eq in tn both have advertised do-alls fairly recently. |
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