2020.01.28 Rust Pic

kcm.MN · Jan 28, 2020

JMOR · Jan 28, 2020

(quoted from post at 02:54:35 01/28/20)

ust think of all the long , hard hours men spent on or behind those things! Breathing dust & mule fa**s.

Hendrik · Jan 28, 2020

Are these check wire planters?

Moonlite37 · Jan 28, 2020

The center front one is

dieselbob · Jan 28, 2020

When I was a young boy I went to the field with my mother to "help" bring my Dad lunch, coffee in a quart jar wrapped in a news paper and the all the goodies in a blue roaster pan, when we got
to the field couldn't see Dad, Mother said grab the wire and I could feel the clicks of the planter in the wire every time it dropped the seeds soon I could see dad coming over the hill. That
is over 60 years ago. I still have the planter. Bob

john in Utah · Jan 28, 2020

How did check row planting work, anyway? It wasn't used in the part of the country where I was raised (west Texas).

super99 · Jan 28, 2020

When starting the field, the wire was unrolled on the first pass across the field. You had to stop and set a stake and tension the wire, turn tractor and planter around and position so the wire could be hooked to the planter. Then plant across the field and repeat process at the other end of the field. The object was to have the hills of corn spaced evenly so the you could cultivate the corn in 2 directions, the direction you planted and cross wise. Used before herbicides to keep field clean. Corn was planted with 4 or 5 seeds/hill. If you look at OLD pictures of corn picking, that is why the stalks are so far apart. Chris

ADB-Ia · Jan 28, 2020

to add to the description - the check wire had a knot every 42 inches (or whatever the row width was) that tripped a flap in the seed tube to drop the seed that had dropped from the seed plate which was turning under the seed box. This created rows in both directions so corn could be cultivated once, then crossed once, then "laid by" in the original direction. Crossing corn was a rough job. That is why many old tractors have very loose steering.

K Effective · Jan 28, 2020

In the mid-1980's we used a modified check row planting system in seed corn test plots. The knot on the wire tripped a solenoid which opened a seed cup that dropped a set number of seeds onto a cone-shaped planter plate that then dropped the seeds individually down the seed tube. Two row narrow planter. The rider on the planter had the seeds prepared, a certain number of seeds counted into two small paper envelopes, sealed and stapled together, strung on a string in order for the plot. After each seed cup dump, he tore open the next two envelopes and poured the contents into the cup for the next plot. I think the knots were 10 feet apart? If the driver of the 3020 was in a hurry, you could barely keep up tearing and dumping and holding on. We planted into rows laid out by the farm owner, who pre-planted the plot with his normal corn planter minus the seeds, so the test plot got the same field treatments like pre-emerge and fertilizer that the rest of the field got. The rider had to jump off at the end of each row and move the wire stake over two rows and hook it back into the planter then climb back on. Hot, dusty work.

RedMF40 · Jan 28, 2020

(quoted from post at 23:54:35 01/27/20)

Someone planted two neat rows of rust, plenty of room between to harvest.

2020.01.28 Rust Pic

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