Keeping it on the Straight and Narrow
Planting with a hand-check corn planter
By James N. Boblenz
Check, chee … check, chee … check, chee … That’s the sound you might hear as the slide bar on a hand-check corn planter moves back and forth. Of course, if you are the one working the slide bar, you might hear a different sound. You might even make up your own sounds to the beat of the steady rhythm of the check bar.
(Excerpt from Farm Collector, December 2006)