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fixerupper

05-23-2005 19:53:57




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How many of you remember planting corn with a check wire, or remember your dad using it? Today as I planted my last field to beans I was thinking this was the last field dad planted with wire. This was sometime in the early 60's and I was around ten or twelve years old at the time. He pulled a 490 Deere planter with an SC Case. Today I was guiding a 24 row planter with all the bells and whistles, covering 30 acres an hour. Times have changed!

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farms gone

05-24-2005 18:25:31




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 Re: check wire planting in reply to fixerupper, 05-23-2005 19:53:57  
was cleaning out the barn the other day and found the old check planter. Never saw it used. Need to get rid of it



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Vince H

05-24-2005 08:10:53




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 Re: check wire planting in reply to fixerupper, 05-23-2005 19:53:57  
For those of us kind of new at planting could explain what planting with a check wire is? I only work a small farm and even though it sounds like this is an outdated method it may work very well for the few acres I plant.



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JMS/MN

05-24-2005 13:39:06




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 Re: check wire planting in reply to Vince H, 05-24-2005 08:10:53  
Check wire was used before herbicides, so you could cultivate crossways to planting. A roll of wire was mounted on the planter, usually a quarter mile in length. At each end of the field, the farmer got off the tractor, moved the wire over( it was held by a stake)-then remounted it on a y-clip on the planter- so about every 40 inches, it tripped the planter mechanism so the seed would drop. That planted the corn in hills, so you could cultivate crossways as well as lengthways. You could drop 2-3-4 seeds per hill, so the max seed rate was about 14000 seeds per acre, compared to today's rate of about 30000.

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Fudd@work

05-23-2005 20:52:32




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 Re: check wire planting in reply to fixerupper, 05-23-2005 19:53:57  
We never used wire but had neighbors that did. I can remember the neighbor cultivating crosswise with his H Farmall and the sound of that governor going up and down.



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