Here is the answer to yesterday’s guessing game.

The mystery equipment sitting in our maple grove is…

… A garden row marker.

In the above picture, you see the handle.  One would step inside it, and hold the bar in front while dragging the rest behind.

Do you see the points?  There are three of them that would drag on the ground, creating three lines in the soil.  When the next pass was made, one of the outer markers would be dragged along in one of the previously marked lines, so that the other two new rows marked would be evenly spaced.

Seeds would be planted in the resulting lines in the soil.

When I was a kid, I remember one of these my dad had made out of wood.  I don’t know who made this metal version, though I would guess it was my late brother, using bits and pieces from other equipment and whatever else was handy.

How close was your guess?

The Re-Farmer