Dad used a two-row IH checkwire planter until the mid 50s. I was too small to pull the wire, but did ride the planter sometimes. He drilled six end rows on one end of the field, drilled the length of the field while reeling out the wire, then drilled the six end rows on the far end. Coming back on that second pass of the length of the field, the wire was set onto the planter, and tripped every 40 inches. Each end, he had to unhook the wire, make the turn, stop and re-hook the wire. I think there was a trip rope to release the wire, otherwise you"d stop twice at each end of the field. Ten acres per day, between milkings, was a good day. Wire reel was a quarter mile long, long enough for any fields we had then. Had to tension the same each reset, to eliminate jogs in the cross rows. Used to cultivate 4-5 times, no herbicides, and cross cult was the third trip.
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