[AJD] Planting Corn

[Duane Larson]

Michael,
Now you know the reason Dad would not let me check plant the field in front 
of the house, next to the road!!  Actually, at the end of the row you pull 
up the wire stake, shake it to move the wire, pound a post in the ground and 
use a scale and come-along to get the same tension on the check-wire so the 
rows are even :) ....
See you at Portland.
Regards,
Duane Larson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Ostrander" <antiquejd at fwi.com>
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Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 10:30 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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