[AT] Check planting (was) Homemade tractors.

[Larry D Goss]

What I remember about checking is that it was a real pain.  The planter 
automatically checked the planting, but you had to run this long wire all 
the way across the field that operated the mechanism on the planter when you 
passed by with big metal lumps in the wire.  The pain was that the wire had 
to be moved at both ends of the field  before every pass with the planter. 
It was "not exactly" a one-man operation.  It took three of us to make the 
planter work with any efficiency at all -- one to drive, and one at each end 
of the field to move the wire.  Oscar and Nettie had no children so for him, 
check planting was very time-consuming.  At least he got to ride the planter 
on every third pass he made across the field.  His horses got a lot of rest 
in between the actual planting.  The aliquots in corn country for a "1/2, 
1/4, 1/4" section are 660 feet wide.  That's 40 rods, but I don't know 
anything other than check wire that came in that length.  Fencing was always 
20 rods per roll.  In between planting seasons, storing the wire was also a 
pain.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Irma Brown" <bellville1 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Check planting (was) Homemade tractors.


> Here in Western KY I remember well how dad would check the ground for Dark
> Tobacco I liked when he did that because I was just a little kid and would
> drop plants for him and Mom to peg into the ground. When it was checked I
> always dropped them right. When we started to set the Burley tobacco the
> ground was not checked for it as it was set closer together. I had a hard
> time getting the plants dropped right.
> Irma
> Western, KY
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