[AT] Check planting

[Paul Waugh]

Check planting

I know my dad did some, I still have the funny shaped iron rod that went at 
the end of the field, kind of 'L' shaped with a clamp to hold the wire .. 
when I ask most people of my generation if they know what it was used for .. 
the answer is NO  .. Dad talked about the wired that ran the length of the 
field, with 'knots' in it to trip the plane, I have seen a few feet of that 
wire, but oh many years ago now.

Paul Waugh - Indiana

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
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Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Check planting (was) Homemade tractors.


> 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
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>
>
>> 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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