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John B. · Mar 26, 2013

Spring will be here soon. I hope!!!

BIG RUH · Mar 26, 2013

Spring? Snows got to melt first.
Nice looking Allis

LA in WI · Mar 26, 2013

The guy who planted that crop was pretty good with the wire...there is a slight curve in the angular sighting, but overall he kept the tension pretty even.

This looks like his 2nd cultivation; crop is tall for 1st time and I think I see the cultivator "tracks" running cross-wise when he did it the 1st time.

His shields are set pretty close together for 2nd time but not hard to steer crossways since the planter man was that good with the wire.

Anybody under 60 know what I am talking about? It"s the lanquage that was used in those days.

LA in WI

Wheat Farmer · Mar 26, 2013

We were only Dry land wheat farmers, but thanks for the wording and info. That farmer is as happy then as one today day with 4 wheel drive, cab, GPS, and doing three times that many rows.

Dean · Mar 26, 2013

Though I"ve never done it, I do know what you are talking about, LA.

Dean

wilamayb · Mar 26, 2013

Yup. We still "check" corn for test plots but about 4 years ago we gave up the cable for GPS. There"s nothing like unrolling/rolling/moving/snagging that cable. What a pain... That GPS supplies a button wherever you want it to supply one.

DeltaRed · Mar 26, 2013

I agree!When I upgraded from 45 to the 'big' 95.I would NOT have been happier if I had had a brand new 9500 there instead.

PJH · Mar 26, 2013

Nice Pictures!

At first glance I thought it was the same tractor in both pics. I bet #1 was loud after a day in the seat. Is that an add-on air cleaner on the Minnie, or was it standard in front of the radiator.

And yes - that man is happy because he"s probably been in that same field, doing the same job, but behind a horse!

Paul

fixerupper · Mar 26, 2013

LA I noticed that too. Not a bad job of stretching the wire. I'm 62 and I barely remember dad planting with a wire. He had a 490 Deere. I helped plant with a wire at our local threshing show a couple of springs ago and I was terrible at it. Jim

NCWayne · Mar 26, 2013

I worked on an old Farmall for a local farmer some years back. He and his Dad had bought the tractor new and it had never had anything done to it until it came to me. He said when they bought it they were as happy as could be because now they could do most everything two rows at a time vs one behind their old mule.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 26, 2013

Ahh yes...The dog days of summer
I so sick of this damn cold weather i could about puik...
rrlunds got the right idee about turning then stupid bulls out later in the season....or just not turn them out at all..lol
o well..its nice ta know im not the only in this sinking boat
think we will drive into town for a hamburger,,,,and see if anybodys more sick of 10 below temps as me..lol....later...and thanks again for all the summer piks...... 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

JimIA · Mar 26, 2013

John,

Where did you find that picture of the UC?

I have that four row cultivator and have never seen that picture before.

Thanks for posting.

Jim

mb58 · Mar 26, 2013

Look at that! 4 rows at a time!!! Reminds me of a story an elderly friend of mine tells. Said when he was a 15 year old kid his neighbor bought a new John Deere A. Kid asked could he drive it. The neighbor says,"Oh no, son. That"s way to much tractor for you to try to handle."

Phil Scarborough · Mar 26, 2013

What is planting with a wire, please?

oleclint · Mar 26, 2013

Yep ,I know what you are talking about, checking corn. I am old enuff to remember helping Dad with the wire.
That was a rough ride when "cross" cultivating.
More so when the "CC" was still on steel.
In the second pic , the air cleaner on M-M "J" tractors were up frt.like the pic shows. clint

Dick2 · Mar 26, 2013

Years ago, it was common to plant corn in 42" row spacing. A wire with a "trip" was used to trip the planter to drop seed every 42". The planter typically dropped 3 -4 seeds per hill. This was commonly caller "Checked Corn" in our area.

I can tell you from experience that running a picker into a cluster of 3-4 stalks spaced 42" apart was hard on the picker and the tractor powering the picker.

This would allow the farmers to cultivate and also cross cultivate to control weeds before chemical weed control became available. It was also thought at the time that extensive cultivating increased yields.

We stopped planting checked corn after Dad got rid of the last team of horses on the place in 1950.

John_PA · Mar 26, 2013

somewhere in the weeds around here I have a hillside hitch for an MM universal J. Wish I could find one of those tractors for sale. It was the first tractor they had on the farm I am on now. The second tractor they had was a 1953 farmall Cub, and I still have that original tractor. They sold the J to a neighbor. He probably sent it off to the scrap yard decades ago.

John B. · Mar 26, 2013

Jim, I scanned that picture out of the book titled, "Farming Once Upon A Time" by J.C. Allen He was a photographer along with his son. He took some great pictures years ago.

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