Rope and Pulley eveners

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  • #39423
    Plowboy
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    Does anyone else use a rope and pulley hitch for multiple tandem hitches? We use them and they work great. White Horse and Pioneer are both manufacturing them now. They upgraded the pulleys and now use singletree hooks instead of snaps so they have made some good improvements. I am going to buy a new set for 6 this winter. They have provisions for hitching up to 12 but I don’t understand their sketch in the book. Hitching 4+4+4 it requires different hardware for the wheel team but would have to see it to understand. The pictures from HPD don’t show it close enough to see how they rigged it so it equalizes all three teams. Hitching only two teams of 3 or 4 is easy but when you add the third I don’t know. We may put a 12 together at our spring plowdays but maybe we’ll have to do it conventionally with eveners. We use 6 alot and 8 sometimes so it may not be cost effective to buy the extra rigging for the rope hitch for a once a year gig.

    #45461
    Plowboy
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    No other tandem farm hitch folks here?

    #45462
    Rob FLory
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    Hi Plowboy,
    You might be in a class by yourself. We have used the rope and pulley eveners to put 4(2 ahead of 2) on a sulky plow with a big bottom, but have never used more than that. I can picture putting 3 ahead of 3 with the rope eveners, and a standard 3-horse tree behind them. I’ve got a picture I just drew of a pulley system that would even 3 horses in line, but I am not sure how to translate it into a practical system. If you send me your mailing address I’ll mail you a drawing and you can take it from there.

    Rob Flory
    Howell Living History Farm

    #45463
    Neil Dimmock
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    Never used the rope but I have a few Mckinnon chain and pulley and they work ok for light loads but under full load they let the leaders tug raise to high which wastes 1/3 of the leader effort, the best is the talkington which self adjusts to the right angel for the leaders as well as the wheelers and wastes little effort of either. The bonus is that its light and cheap and easy to move.
    Neil

    #45468
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    in the video from HPD 2000, Sam Moore explained the System of the 12 horse hitch rope an pulley evener System.

    #45466
    Neil Dimmock
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    I am aware of sam moore and he can talk but has never used it so I am not sure how much good that is!

    #45467
    Ronnie Tucker
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    i have used this method once we did some plowing with six head four mules and two horses pulling a oliver trailer plow with two 12 in bottoms it worked fine ronnie

    #45465
    Neil Dimmock
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    I have found the leaver type the best and I have tryed the rest and driven large hitches with it! Here a video of one and it shows the line of draft down were it supposed to be, not up in the air so the leaders tug’s are almost flat out and making them work harder to pull the same load!
    http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=tOcRZEtkwMc

    #45464
    Neil Dimmock
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    As you can see the rope hitch is just a lighter McKinnon chain and I have used that one a lot.
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