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daniel grover
KeymasterIt would really be a shame to see them go. Here are a couple of great ways horses are being used where I’m living, in VT:
Vermont uses draft horse to lay cable for Internet access
and Horses make garbage pickup more green in Vt. village:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKdBqDw6K_w[/video]
KeymasterThanks for posting this, Jeff. Nice to see your horses work in high quality video.
What kind of forecart are you using?
February 20, 2014 at 10:31 pm in reply to: Searching for Equipment Donations for Heartbeet Lifesharing #82545KeymasterHi William,
Do you have particular pieces in mind that would be your first priorities?
KeymasterHey Bekah,
Has this already been posted to the facebook group? I’d be happy to do so if not.
Daniel
KeymasterSo glad that this got edited and published–are there more on the way?
KeymasterSounds like you need a bigger barn. 🙂
KeymasterHi there Jean, It looks like you need to adjust the sharing settings on that drive doc to make it accessible to all, without a login. You can do this by opening the file within drive. On the top right is a button that says “Share”. Under the “Who has access” section, click “Change” and then choose the option “Public on the Web”. Click “Save” The “Sharing Settings” box should still be open. At the top of this box is a link (probably where you got the link which you’ve already posted. It says “Link to Share” above it. Copy this link to your post. Hope this helps!
KeymasterWhat a cool video..where did you come across this?
Keymasterthe added features look great, Gabe. Thanks for all your hard work.
KeymasterKeymasterHey Brad and Bill,
Just wanted to pass on this resource to you that explains what a 500 internal error is: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/500servererror.htm
Though it explains that most of these errors are server-side (not having to do with your computer) problems, it also gives some recommendations about how you can address them. I didn’t have a problem accessing the photos. Hope this helps.
Best,
Daniel
KeymasterTillers International have been working on a cultivator with a similar concept behind it’s design. The new steering that they put on it looks pretty slick.
Here’s the link: Tiller’s Cultivator
KeymasterHi Wally b,
These cultivators were manufactured in Europe in the fifties and are not readily / easily available.
The best recommendation that I can make it to contact Roxbury Farm about this importation process.
Best,
Daniel
October 6, 2013 at 11:05 am in reply to: field work with oxen in permanent bed system on slanting land #81312KeymasterCan you say more about pulling these tools off-center. What’s the tongue/yoke setup for that? My inclination is that it would work better and be easier to have a wide-set yoke (as bsmit24 suggests) with an ox on either side of the bed, walking in the grass paths.
It also seems to me that a tongued implement would have less of a desire to slide downhill? Does this seem true? Would you end up with a problem of the tongue pushing against the side of the downhill ox?
I’m beginning to learn/read about head vs neck yokes and britchens for oxen. Is it necessary to use a head yoke to make this happen since it’s a sloping farm? As I mentioned, the beds are set up on contour so the team wouldn’t be working facing down hill.
Also, I’m still curious about whether the riding or walk behind cultivator would want to slide downhill while cultivating. The fields aren’t terribly slanted but enough so that stabilizer bars were necessary to keep tractor implements from sliding downhill. Any thoughts?
To answer the question about primary tillage, bsmit24, probably very little once the beds are established. Currently a rototiller is used on this farm to work in cover crops, or after plowing. I’m thinking that a switch to oxen would also be a switch away from the rototiller. In the case that primary tillage is necessary, I could be wrong about this but it seems to me that primary tillage in this system would actually be easier than secondary and especially cultivation where more precision is necessary.
KeymasterSeems to be a useful way of consistently raising money which lots of orgs use.
If this is something that DAP wanted to persue, I found this article which lays out some of the options available online. Seems like most of the services take a cut but that may be worth it if having a monthly giving option brings in donations that were previously not coming in at all. Better to lose 2.9% of a donation than 100%.
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