[AT] Checked rows - Corn planting?

[Almost-Running Deere]

In one of the JD books, (can't rember which one since I've slept since I 
last looked at it) there is a beautiful picture of a tractor cultivating a 
checked field.  I never saw one cultivated on the Diagonal but from the 
picture of the perfect feild it looks very possible.

Dana
SE PA

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>Subject: RE: [AT] Checked rows - Corn planting?
>Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 01:37:40 -0700
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>Al:
>
>Boy, you sure are right about the checked field being a "thing of beauty".
>Well, until the third time cross cultivating and the tractor would beat you
>and the cultivator to death. :-)
>
>One of my Dad's favorite Sunday afternoon habits was to drive slowly around
>the neighboring farms and admire the fields as the corn came up and grew
>overnight. I suspect he was also the local "correct police" relative to who
>had not gotten their check rows exactly straight. :-)  There was a bit of 
>an
>art to that.
>
>I have a vision yet of my dad pulling back on that checked wire with a
>seemingly trained tug to get each movement of the wire exactly the same 
>from
>planter pass to planter pass. His checked rows had to be perfect!  I never
>saw a checked row out of place on his fields and I spent many, many hours,
>days and years cultivating those same fields.
>
>A good JD model 290 corn planter has been on my want list for years. Never
>have found one in good enough shape or at a price I was willing to pay. I
>did find two rolls of check wire still on the spools a few years back when 
>I
>visited NW IA. Stored inside and in good shape. They were inside a building
>at a farmer who also had a farm equipment salvage business. I picked up a
>bunch of parts and told him my next trip I would pick up the two spools of
>check wire.  The next year I went back to pick them up and the whole 
>salvage
>yard was gone.  Scrap iron prices had reached a point where the owner just
>cleaned everything up and it was all gone including the two rolls of check
>wire. I have kicked my self repeatedly over and over for not picking them 
>up
>when I saw them the first time.  A dumb move. Haven't found a good 290
>either.
>
>
>
>Dean A. Van Peursem
>Snohomish, WA 98290
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>Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:46 AM
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>Subject: Re: [AT] Checked rows - Corn planting?
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>A nicely checked field of corn was always a "thing of beauty" and a
>"sight to behold" for me.  It sure seemed
>like you could cultivate on the diagonal, but don't recall ever seeing
>anyone do it that way.  My planter is equipped for "checking", but I
>haven't yet followed up on any of the leads that I've been given on
>locating some check wire.  Some day . . . .
>
>Al in NW MN
>
>
> >As a youngster on the farm I have a lot of memories of the issues related
>to
> >planting corn in checked 40" or 42" rows so that the rows could be
> >cultivated both ways. But I have no recollection of ever cultivating at a
> >diagonal. Was this ever done in any part of the country?  I would think 
>it
> >would have required completely different settings on the rear wheels of 
>the
> >tractor and cultivator. And not be all that beneficial anyway.
> >
> >Just curious if it was ever done and for what reason. Senility is setting
> >in!
> >
> >Dean A. Van Peursem
> >Snohomish, WA 98290
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