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Riverslim

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I was a "rural youth" but not a real farm background. Uncle farmed our 80 acres. Does this term refer to an unusual method of planting corn? Picture I have in my mind is precise uniform spacings both directions of field.
 
Yes, that sounds like what we called 'checked corn'. I have not seen it done, just the field after it was planted. The theory was, before herbicides, that you could cultivate the direction you planted, and also go 90 degrees from the direction you planted. Weed control was the issue. Greg
 
..cross check is when you take two hands on your hockey stick and nail some poor slob like a battering ram..as far as corn..you can row it north south east and west
 
It required a special planter with a wire stretched the length of the row that had a way of tripping the planter to drop a seed at the set intervals. That kept the plants in rows and columns so you could cultivate either way.
 
Your corn planter had two fingers haqnging from each side of the planter. The wire that was streched the length of the field had knots ever 40" (the width of a horse) the wire ran inbetween the fingers and would trip the planter as the knot went between the fingers. As the knot passed the fingers would spread apart, or swing sideways to release the knot.

After you got to the end of each pass across the field, you had to get off the tractor, and move the stake holing the wire--approx 80 inches each time.

As a child, I was always trying to help dad, but I was not heavy enough to push the stak in, let alone drag the long wire.
 
My father always checked his corn so it could be cultivated both ways to control the weed. He always had a certain team of horses he used for planting. It was a team that pulled togrther so the row would be staight. I can still hear the planter has went across the field it was steady, "Click-cauclick " as he went across the field.
gitrib
 
here is a picture of my mccormick 244 check row planter with check wire.
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hi, we have been check planting the last two years at our local tractor show. the first year was interesting, had some guys help that had done it in the past, did it this year and it was easier this time, also cultivated it both ways during the show.
 
Not trying to hijack the thread, but do you have to move the wire over on both ends each time? A lone farmer would have to move wire on end he finished up on and walk down to the other end of field and move that stake and then walk back and plant. Would take a long time. Also, how do you stretch the wire so that the knots are in the same spot each time? Would seem pretty easy to be off by several inches each time you moved the wire. I've seen videos of guys check planting corn, but never saw the whole process.
 
i believe you just moved one end over each round. when you get to the end of the field and turn the planter around, that is the end you move over. not sure about keeping knots in same place,distance each time.

john
 
thanks. it had been sitting in top of bank barn for 30 years or so. that is what i was told when i bought it. i have had it about 3 years.

john
 
My dad always hill dropped 10 rows at the end of each field,when checkwire planting he set the stake in the same end row at each end of the field and then cranked up the certain bud on the wire so it was in the same location at the end of each field. Each stake had like a small come along as part of it's make up,this to crank the wire tight if needed.The planter I remember that he had was a JD 290 on rubber.I remember other old planters on steel around the farm not being used but the JD being used is most memorable.He pulled the planter with a Ford 8N I think it was.I learned to drive on that old Ford.
 
Nice Planter,now, if you put two of those side by side it was called a 444 and that is what I started farming with in 1960. I pulled it with my Oliver 88 diesel and It was set to drop a single seed about every 8 inches more or less.It was a smooth planter and would drop and bury seed even when you hit a clay knob and where i farmed ther were many. Other planters sort of rolled over these knobs and never buried or covered the seed very well. The last Planter i had before sell out was a JD 694 w/ Liquid Fertilizer attachment. I pulled it with an AC 190.Fertilizer tanks were mounted on each side of the 190 frame. Gandy Insecticide attachment were on the planter and for weed control the 190 with a 6 row rear mount cultivator along with spraying Herbicides when discing preplant took care of most of them.
 
When you pulled the wire over you just pulled the same tension eacy time. Didn't have to pull it very tight. Had a neighbor who could get his cross rows straighter than his driven rows. We used disc hillers and cultivating crossways was rough. The tractor governors would open up as you went over each ridge.
 
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