|
Delbert from Lincoln
06-29-2005 09:11:13
|
|
Re: Listers in reply to MPK, 06-28-2005 12:10:07
|
|
| |
40 to 60 years ago, when I was farming, most farmers in the hills in south east Nebr used listers and the ones on more level ground used corn planters. A lister is on or more middle busters, with a planting mechanism behind so the seed drops in the open furrow. Then a set of disks cover the seed. The planting mechanism was driven by a chain, sometimes from the press wheels, other times from the covering disks thru a gear mechanism. Where we were at the farmers in the hills planted on the terrace lines, and contour lines. So the corn row was basicaly level. Supposed to hold the water on the land and prevent washing. After the corn was picked in the fall, cows, and sometimes hogs were turned into the stock field for winter pasture, and to salvage what corn was left. In the spring the grond was run over with a disk or stock cutter, and then the lister was used to plant. If it was disked too far ahead and got a little weedy, it was no big deal, the dirt thrown up by the lister covered the weeds, and gave the corn an even start. There were 2 types of listers, ones with big middle busters and solid molboards, and ones with a narrow pointed lay and disks to open up the ground. The ones with the disks were called rotary molboads. They would work in plowed or disked ground, but the ones with solid molboards would not scour in plowed ground. Kinda like trying to plow previously plowed ground. After the corn was up, some used a disk set at a slight angle, others used a harrow, the ones that had them used a go devil, or monitor, also called a 2 row machine localy at least. It could be cultivated twice with the go devil, then was cultivated once or twice with convential cultivators.
|
|
|
