Sure works with wheat on the plains.  

Quote from: Adam Clayman on April 25, 2007, 11:51:42 AM

I had never hear of drilling seed, is it a well kept secret? Or is it common practice? Anyone familiar?

You'd have to be Living in the Past on an Aqualung, my Friend to never have heard of a Seed Drill, dear boy...

FBD.

I was thinking more along the lines of living your entire life on Manhattan Island, but we know that is not true of Adam.

Hey, Thats what this website is for. To expand one's island.

I'm sure there are many other obvious things that I have never heard of and in the TePaul spirit, I will continue extricating them.

The dirt moved was for the whole project and he was quite certain of the number. I asked him twice!

 Jethro Tull (1674-1741)

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Jethro Tull invented the seed drill (in 1701), the horse-drawn hoe, and an improved plough. Tull was educated at Oxford, England where studied law, he later studied agriculture during his travels across Europe. Jethro Tull inherited land in the southern part of England where he put into practice his study of agriculture.
His seed drill would sow seed in uniform rows and cover up the seed in the rows. Up to that point, sowing seeds was done by hand by scattering seeds on the ground. Tull considered this method wasteful since many seeds did not take root. The first prototype seed drill was built from the foot pedals of Jethro Tull's local church organ.

Jethro Tull was part of a group of farmers who founded the Norfolk system, an early attempt to apply science to farming. In 1731, Jethro Tull published "The New Horse Houghing Husbandry: or, an Essay on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation".


(His name was later chosen by a rock band in the 1960's.  Ian Anderson (the wild-eyed leaping lemur frontman) claimed that previous to JT, they had many band names because they never got invited back for gigs so with each new name (apparently weekly) they became a new band. Finally, they were asked to play again and kept the moniker. )  

 "Blues were my favourite colour
  'Til I found another song
  That I felt like singing."

Yes he said it was Bermuda grass and he said they built it all. Creating all the movement on what was a flat site.

I looked on their website but there was no mention of total acreage.

Adam,
I've been to Gainey Ranch and there is no way that much dirt got moved unless it got moved 20 or 30 times.

And as far as the drill seeding story, I'm not buying it if he claims to have planted bermuda seed and mowed it twice in two weeks since bermuda is a slow germinator. Now rye grass...maybe, but what puzzles me is Gainey is a hybrid bermuda that is only propagated by sprigs (vegetative parts of the plant)...so the whole seed story has me confused... I'm calling BS on the whole thing!

Forrest,
Why did you move the dune?
Why not move the holes?
Cheers

Adam:

Moving 650 million yards of earth would cost somewhere around one billion dollars.  That would have to be a pretty lucrative development to spend that kind of money!

I could believe 6.5 million yards of earthmoving for a large development including a golf course.

Mike N. — We moved the dune to play havoc with future generations of  GCA-ers who will be tormented at the very thought...besides, it will provide years of research time for enthusiasts at the Mexican Bureau of Topographic Data — comparing vintage coastline maps with maps from the 2005-2010 period. Oh, and also we needed to raise the estuary areas by 2-3 feet and the concave area developed made for a nice range.