[AT] Checked rows - Corn planting?

Tue Jun 7 14:49:27 PDT 2005

I do believe a rake like that is hanging on a wall here, I believe it has had four pegs but only three left. The whole rake is made of wood. I also believe its to narrow for potato, but of course you could only use two pegs.

/Mattias

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> This "checked rows" thread reminds me of a potato patch some of my relatives 
> had when I was a kid. Every potato spaced evenly on the square and 
> diagonally. Interestingly they never used any type of mechanical weed 
> control, just a hoe. But it looked so precise and well laid out and I guess 
> this is what they wanted. I never could figure out how they did it until 
> seeing the "implement" they had built. It was the general shape of a garden 
> rake and as wide as 3 rows. It had 3 pegs in it that contacted the ground as 
> they dragged across the garden. Do this operation in two directions and you 
> will end up with a perfect checkerboard garden. I've got a picture of that 
> garden somewhere from way back in the sixties.
> 
> Ralph in Sask.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
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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
> >
> > I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
> > storeroom door
> >
> >
> > www.deerelegacy.com
> >
> > http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Al Walker
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:46 AM
> > To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Checked rows - Corn planting?
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >>I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
> >>storeroom door
> >>
> >>
> >>www.deerelegacy.com
> >>
> >>http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
> >>
> >>
> >>
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