[AJD] Planting Corn

[Bruce Mahr]

Michael: Sounds like a fun day. I've never seen corn check planted, but have 
always wanted to. I have a 290 planter on steel with everything to do it 
with but the ground.
I doubt that I can make it to your rally, but would like to. Hope you have a 
good crowd and a good time!

Bruce Mahr

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Ostrander" <antiquejd at fwi.com>
To: "Antique John Deere mailing list" 
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Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 9:30 PM
Subject: [AJD] Planting Corn


>
>
> Good evening all-
> A week ago Saturday, I experienced a first.  The GP rally that we are
> hosting in a couple of weeks is to be a more active show than the last 
> one.
> So, we plowed a 200 x 200 area with a 1928 GP with two way mounted plow, a
> 1937 BW with two way mounted plow (my oldest son), and a 1939 H with 
> single
> bottom mounted plow.  I worked the ground up with a 10 ft disk that has to
> be raised and lowered with a jack since the hydraulic hoses spew oil.  We
> got it into a pretty good powder despite the 7.2" of rain we had 2 weeks
> earlier.  Then we fiddled and adjusted a 3 row mounted corn planter on a
> 1935 GP and decided to check plant our nearly 1 acre field.  It was truly 
> a
> sight to see.  Neither my dad nor I have ever check planted corn and could
> not find anyone else that had.  We look through Dad's literature and found
> the corn planter book and contained therein was step by step instructions 
> on
> how to do it.  So we read a sentence, started the procedure, stopped, read
> the next sentence, started the procedure....well you get the picture.  I 
> had
> questions about how the corn was going to come out evenly but off we went.
> At one point the Doffler button caught on the trip mechanism and broke the
> wire.  Fortunately for me, I have been fixing things with baling wire and
> duck tape for many years.  So I cut a couple of lengths, braided it, then
> tied the buttons and loop right into the original wire.  It was within a
> quarter of an inch and trips the planter so I was quite pleased.  I 
> finished
> the main part of the field and then read the book as to how to do the
> headlands.  Instead of check planting the headlands, an adjustment is made
> to the planter and it drills the corn into the headlands.  After 6 days, 
> the
> corn was popping through.  Today you could see all the rows clearly.  It 
> is
> going to be a challenge to do the cross-cultivation since the cross
> plantings are a few inches different.  I asked Dad at the time how we get
> the stake in exactly the right position.  Well, we learned that we didn't
> get it exactly right.  Its not so bad that it wont be entertaining though.
> So, now we have one more area to plow so we can demonstrate planting and
> cultivating during the show.  Should be a good time.  Any of you on the 
> list
> are invited with or without an exhibit.  Maybe I will post a few pictures 
> to
> the website.
> Michael
>
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