still curious

[1938G]

How many here have planted corn using a check wire

 

[Scott 730]

Could you maybe consider putting more info in your subject lines?? They don't charge by the word here.

 

[J.Wondergem]

How many here have planted corn using a check wire

When I was a kid, the neighbors did, we had the wire and stakes, but Dad said we didn't have enough time to fool around with it.

 

[1938G]

Could you maybe consider putting more info in your subject lines?? They don't charge by the word here.

Could you maybe consider putting more info in your subject lines?? They don't charge by the word here.

Sorry. no offence was intended

 

[CraigWis]

I just sold some JD Check Row planter parts to a Guy from New London Wi. so that he could restore his Fathers Planter that He had been still using in the 1960's

 

[Brown David]

Could you maybe consider putting more info in your subject lines?? They don't charge by the word here.

I've often questioned others about that and recieved no explanation or reply as to why they do it.

That said, if you're using a computer, just hover the cursor on the thread title and it will preview the first post letting you see what the thread is actually about.

If on a phone, etc., I have no idea if there is a way to preview the thread.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Could you maybe consider putting more info in your subject lines?? They don't charge by the word here.

Pictures & video are free too!

Mike

 

[rrlund]

We bought a 490 Deere in Archbold one time that came with a roll of wire, but we had progressed beyond planting in hills long before that. The wire laid around here and rusted away I guess.

 

[Mark-Ia]

I helped plant corn with a 1931 John Deere GP with a 3 row planter using check wire for the Albert City Threshing show in 2024.

 

[Mark Poss]

I do a couple of acres every year. Thats enough!!

 

[Alvin 41]

How many here have planted corn using a check wire

Followed my dad using a JD 999 with check wire planting in mid 40's with horses . Later took front wheel off planter and mounted it on 3 point of Ford Jubilee narrowed up for wheel track planting .

 

[paul]

The (1950’s?) Case planter dad converted from 3pt to 2 pt to put on the IHC 300 tractor was hill drop, I recall dad planting hill drop when I was a kid. It had the check wire bracket on it and could have planted check corn, but I don’t recall ever seeing it used that way. The hill drop cogs wore down and dad took those flippers off, used it as a regular corn planter into the 80s.

So, hill dropped corn with a 4 row three point capable of check row is as close as I got.

Paul

 

[Powered By IH]

I do a couple of acres every year. Thats enough!!

Do you cultivate it too?

 

[Newgenerationdeere]

Maybe we’d all better go back to check row pianting and cultivating two directions stamp out over production low prices and weed resistance all in one fell swoop

 

[Mark Poss]

Yes, two row cultivator on 37 A

 

[Timmycornpicker]

Maybe we’d all better go back to check row pianting and cultivating two directions stamp out over production low prices and weed resistance all in one fell swoop

With precision GPS, auto-steer and computer-controlled planter units, it could now be done without having to mess with knotted wire. Then send a fleet of cultivator drones out there 24/7 to keep after the weeds . . . . but the cost of all this electronical stuff, yikes.