[chrisf.]

I had a horse wrinkle like that once when he had been working pretty hard, I made sure to keep his shoulders and pad really clean and switched to my vinyl pad for a bit and all was well after a short time.

[chrisf.]

Seems like a logical price. I just paid 8000 for 5 and 6 year olds a little over a ton and well broke.

[chrisf.]

If ever your still looking I’ve got a nice 1700lbs 5year old I’m up in Quebec Canada though. Message me if you’d be interested.

[chrisf.]

I’m in Quebec Canada and there’s lots of decent grade horses for sale around $2000 each. Teams are hard enough to come by and tend to be selling anywhere upwards of $3500. I have a nice broke gelding coming 6 years old advertised at $2500 and the phone isn’t ringing off the hook or anything. We have hay selling for around $3.50-$4.00 a small square bale.

[chrisf.]

I’m in Quebec and shaves like yours were used all the time in the bush and they weren’t shy to load. The only difference was that the pins were a bit closer to the end than yours. As for where your shaves hook to your sleigh the only time I’ve ever seen them hooked back that far was when you’re using trailing shaves. Trailing shaves are exactly like yours but instead of being fixed to the sleigh with a pin they were hooked about where you are with a short piece of chain. The chain ran to a J-hook with the open end turned towards the back of the sleigh and sunk into the outside of the runner. The bottom of your shaves have to be a bit wider than your runners though for this to work. The advantage of this is that when your horse is holding back your sleigh on a downhill slope the sleigh runs up on the cross member of your shaves and push it into the snow to help in breaking. It’s a pretty good way to go. I’ve even gathered sap on small hills with no britchen with no trouble(not by choice I had no britchen lol). It can be done with a pole too but I’ve never actually seen it.

[chrisf.]

I’m really impresed at how good it seems to handle the bailer. I would have been pretty skeptical but I may just be interested now.

[chrisf.]

I know that around here in the past they usually would use a martingale that was only hooked into the belly band. That only had to hold the pole down.

[chrisf.]

I was never around horses when I was young but have wanted draft horses as long as I can remember. One of my great grandfathers farmed with horses and another trained horses for bread runs. Unfortunately I never met either one of them but I guess just knowing that sparked an interest for me. I bought a house with a bit of land and a horse a couple of months later. It turned into a adiction sometime after that and now most of my time goes into my team. I’ve spent quite a few evenings out working with my team even after eleven and twelve hour days at the real job that pays the bills. I’m working towards cutting back the hours spent at the paying job and increasing the hours spent working with the horses. The satisfaction I get from a day looking at horses buts is worth a lot more than a paycheck…unfortunately the bank doesn’t have the same views.

[chrisf.]

Of course they went well, that’s what happens when own the right breed of horse.lol

[chrisf.]

I just got a #7 in descent shape for $125. Guess I did ok.

[chrisf.]

I havn’t done it yet but if I ever get around to putting a pto on my forcart I intend to use a small diesel motor out of a trailer’s refrigeration unit. I havn’t looked into the price yet but I like the size of them. One of the smaller industial diesels I’ve seen. Just food for thought.

[chrisf.]

The best method I’ve found to loosen stuck bolts, pins and sleeves is to heat them red but not for long so as not to heat the bolt or inner piece. Once it’s hot cool it down as fast as you can with water. If you can hit on it a few times. The only thing you might want to be careful of is if the piece is cast iron. I’ve never had trouble just heating it but cooling it quickly might make it brittle. I’ve done this often on the rock crushers I run and have pretty much always been able to get things apart.

[chrisf.]

Never worked on a mowing machine but if they are seals like most gear boxes have (metal outside with a flat front and rubber on inside) a good trick to pull them out sometimes is to drive a self-tapping srcrew staight through the face of the seal and let it prop into the back of the casing. Usually pulls one side of the seal out pretty easy.

[chrisf.]

Thats not the set of disks you’d want to hook to if you want to get any real work done. They’d be a good load for a 40hp tractor. Unless your worried about your horses running off with the disk harrow I’d unhook the back set. they are pobably having trouble keeping it rolling at a walk.

[chrisf.]

I’ve got a new idea 10A. I like it a lot. I loaded as much on it as I could and have had no trouble with it yet. Make sure your apron chain is in good shape and you shouldn’t have trouble. Parts seem to be easy enough to find for these spreaders as they were made for a long time. Good luck.

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