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- April 25, 2011 at 9:47 am #42654
fabian
ParticipantIn January I made a new 9” yoke. It is my first yoke with an elliptical neckseat.
But
because I’m not satisfied with it’s look,
because I’m not satisfied with it’s depth of the belly,
because it has not enough width in the neckseats,
because I got a drill with which I can drill bigger holes and
because the bows with the bigger diametre don’t fit into my other yokesI decided to make another.
This yoke has a deeper belly and a wider neckseat (7 and 1/5”)
The bows have a diametre of 1 and 3/5″
The length between the bows is 26 and 2/5″.
And the neckseat is elliptical like it should be .
This yoke should work well (the hardware ist still on the way to me 😉 ) and it should last for the rest of my life.
I thought about making yokes for other teamsters in Germany, but this is 3-pad-collar-country here and I think that my family would starve if I would establish a yokemaker companyWolfgang
April 25, 2011 at 9:59 am #67043Participantooops.
The PC crashed and I could not attach the pics……April 25, 2011 at 8:17 pm #67041CharlyBonifaz
MemberI think that my family would starve if I would establish a yokemaker company
you’d be the one and only though 😀
I like the dark colour (trademark?)April 26, 2011 at 3:05 pm #67037dominiquer60
Moderatorvery handsome indeed.
April 26, 2011 at 7:20 pm #67044Participant@CharlyBonifaz 26575 wrote:
you’d be the one and only though
If NOBODY wants a neck yoke, ONE yoke maker will be exactly ONE to much. 🙁
@CharlyBonifaz 26575 wrote:
I like the dark colour (trademark?)
No trademark. I coloured it because so it can not be seen at the first look that it is made from laminated SPRUCE 😮 But I regretted it soon after covering it with polyurethane: One sees EVERY dust particle on it…….
trademark: I shaped the beam with my rotary cutter and made two mistakes (gliding into the wood). If you look close to the pic you will see two waves in front of the outside stave of the left bow. THESE I declared to be my future “trademark”: “original only with the two waves” 🙂@dominiquer60 26589 wrote:
very handsome indeed.
I’m not called for nothing “the best neck yokemaker in Germany” 😉
April 26, 2011 at 10:11 pm #67039bivol
Participantnice one!
how are trhe oxen responding to it? are they visibly more comfortable? nice to see your skills being polished – i still have to make my first yoke (bow is here though)!
April 27, 2011 at 6:08 am #67045Participant@bivol 26605 wrote:
how are trhe oxen responding to it? are they visibly more comfortable?
We will see it when you come to visit me ! 😉
otherwise I will see in fall. The cows are in summer-holidays on pasture till november.@bivol 26605 wrote:
i still have to make my first yoke (bow is here though)!
you still have to make your first TEAM . 😀
Wolfgang
April 27, 2011 at 10:44 am #67038ModeratorI am not sure if that is the last yoke that you make Wolfgang. Yokes are like Frito Lays Potato Chips with their slogan “you can’t have just one.” Somehow I have 6 on hand at the moment, one we made, two were gifts, one purchased and two borrowed from neighbors. There are many advantages to having oxen over horses, but needing different sized yokes as they grow is not one of them:)
Erika
April 27, 2011 at 2:11 pm #67051Nat(wasIxy)
Participant@dominiquer60 26609 wrote:
There are many advantages to having oxen over horses, but needing different sized yokes as they grow is not one of them:)
Erika
Ahem, just for fairness’ sake I need to point out that this is not a disadvantage of oxen, only yokes 😉 I’ve used one 3pad harness since Ang turned 18 months and he would have to grow tremendously to outgrow it completely, and as he’s now 4 I can’t see it happening. I also look forward to my hereford growing into it 😀
April 27, 2011 at 3:20 pm #67042Memberwell, I claim you also need different size harnesses for horses as they grow 😀
April 27, 2011 at 7:24 pm #67046Participant@dominiquer60 26609 wrote:
I am not sure if that is the last yoke that you make Wolfgang. Yokes are like Frito Lays Potato Chips with their slogan “you can’t have just one.” Somehow I have 6 on hand at the moment, one we made, two were gifts, one purchased and two borrowed from neighbors. There are many advantages to having oxen over horses, but needing different sized yokes as they grow is not one of them:)
Erika
I have two yokes for training, one 6” and one 8” , a 9” yoke with too less width in the neck (the first I made without any instruction for help, think it will get a barn hanger), a 9” yoke, I made in January, with too less depth in the belly ( I corrected it with a layer at the bottom) and now this 9” yoke.
Because I drive with cows and because I can put also 8” bows into the yoke, this should be enough. The cows won’t outgrow a 9” yoke (my experience). It’s only so, that if the have had a calf during summer, it could be that they need in the coming winter the smaller bow because they have lost weight.Wolfgang
April 28, 2011 at 9:11 am #67052Participantalso true – few horses are harnessed up as young as oxen are, so it’s our own fault really!
April 28, 2011 at 6:36 pm #67047Participantcomplete ! 🙂
frontside and backside
I wished it was fall……:(
Wolfgang
April 28, 2011 at 6:48 pm #67050Tim Harrigan
ParticipantNice yoke. So you ship your cattle up to high pastures in the summer?
April 28, 2011 at 7:35 pm #67048Participant@Tim Harrigan 26650 wrote:
Nice yoke.
Thank you. I try to do my best.
@Tim Harrigan 26650 wrote:
So you ship your cattle up to high pastures in the summer?
No, I’m not in Bavaria 🙂
But I have no work for the cows during summer. So they have long holidays.
But if one comes who is interested in oxen, I can fetch the animals home in a few minutes 😉Wolfgang
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