Planting Corn 2009
When you have to plant 2 acres of corn for the creation of next winters feed for all the animals, and you have yet to aquire a tractor and the proper implements, how exactly would you do it, in the easiest possible way?
Today I faced this very issue. I had the ground all tilled and ready to go, but I really did not want to do all my furrows by hand, if it was not absolutely necessary. So pondering just a bit, I thought, “well I have a 4 wheel ATV, I wonder how that can help”, and went to the shop to poke around a bit. I had a mess of old wood scraps which when put together sorta gave me a vague idea.
So I sat down and the following pictures are what I came up with. By the way, we did the planting in no time using this to do all of our rows for us in record time with Cristian sitting on the back of the ATV holding his feet down on the contraption to keep it from running up along the top.
Jaime laughed hard when I said I would make one out of some old scrap wood. She aint laughing any more 
Homemade Furrow Maker 1
Homemade Furrow Maker 2
Homemade Furrow Maker 3
i just used my earthway seeder, but i laid out the rows using my riding lawnmower’s tracks as a guide… that was after we “tilled” it with the tractor’s disc. your invention seems a lot better than the other thing i tried which was using an old time mule furrow plow behind the tractor…
Jaime might not be laughing but i am… LMAO!
That’s using what you got! Cudos!
Run a piece of PVC through the furrow maker and Cristian could seed at the same time.
Dave
Jason, that sounds like a fun experiment tho
Dave: The PVC idea is a good one, I might see what I can do to incorporate that along with a chain dragging behind to refill the farrow. Thanks
Actually Will, I would think that filling the furrows behind you would be easy.
A “V” shaped “sled” that you could pull behind at the same time or separately should do the trick. Would just have to be weighted enough to keep it down. Opening in the tip of the ‘V’ as wide as your furrows, and the wide end (leading end) as wide as the mounds your furrow maker leaves behind.
Dave
Oh… one more suggestion to consider…
A couple of long surface bolts on either side of where you have the furrow maker hinged should serve to keep the furrow in place but still allow you to pull it up.
Although it had to be priceless to see Cristian holding it in place with his feet!
Where’s the pics?
Dave
Dave: Interesting idea, and I got the drawings you sent via email. Will see about that for next year. Thanks
Very clever idea! But don’t forget the helmet while sitting at the back of that ATV.
You should try adding a piece of metal on the edge of the plank to reinforce it, so you don’t have to change the plank too often.
Great job!