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ParticipantI thought about the truck axle when it was mentioned on here earlier.. and the only way i could think to do it was use one of those triple v belts and have a throw out lever on a pully. I figured that if it can drive a combine it could drive horse drawn equipment… but then again i might be wrong:D…
JohnParticipantApparantly when the Romans left Britain we managed to lose ability to make the wheel in what was known as the dark ages !!!!:eek:..
JohnParticipantDonn and Mitch I am in the proccess of converting a mower into a pto hitch cart.. only prob is it is a left hand cut and as a result the output shaft goes ant clockwise. I think i have sussed it by taking an old truck gearbox to bits and plan to use the gears from it so a small one meshes with a larger one and turns it the right way… Question is.. can i weld those gears ?? and have i worked this out right… A mile is 1760 yds so at 3 and a half miles an hour thats 6160yds.. or 18,480ft..divide by 60= 308ft/min…. my mower output shaft turns 28 times/ turn of the land wheel.. land wheel is 8ft all the way round.. so..308ft divided by 8ft= 38.5 turns of the land wheel per minute.. that means the output shaft is doing 1,078 revs/min.. so i recon a 20 tooth gear driving a 40 tooth gear should give 540 or near enough.. I will post the usual fotos when i get it done…
JohnParticipantThats fantastic news Marshall. Bet your glad you took a chance on her…
JohnParticipantHi Marshall… how goes it with Molly ??
JohnParticipantMy horses have been barefoot now most of the year. For the type of work I do they are doing great.. only hitch was when I was away for 2 months and our regular farrier let the toes get too long..I usually do the Clydes myself and let the farrier trim and shoe the ponies… I have to say its unusual to hear a farrier mention the barefoot trim.. over here they mostly rubbish the notion.. as I always say. ” It works for me”…
JohnParticipantRod I havnt fed oat straw but my grandfather would cut a sheaf of un threashed oats into the stall at night or if any youngsters were being out wintered a few would be cut over the fence…
JohnParticipantOver here the Royal Highland Show costs the equivelent to $30 a day to get into… there are no workshops , the food is crap and expensive, the exhibiters all pay a fortune to attend.. and it now has a pile of stalls selling cheap rubbish !! All this to try and attract numbers in the general public. I cant comment on Tunbridge but from what I’ve read you certainly dont want to cheapen it by turning it into a glorified fair. Attract the general public that are genuinly interested in the movement but not those that see it as a place to take the kids for a day out because there is nothing else on… just my tuppence worth..
JohnParticipantSeems to me the NEAPFD can’t be called anything other than professional !!.. When someone says to me ” Oh you’re doin it the old fashioned way “… I reply… “Nope… this is state of the art”.. and you have a helper here… 3000 miles away granted…. but a helper all the same:)..
JohnParticipantAnd a boxing engine was the tool used by the wheelwright to bore out the centre of the wheel to take the box..
JohnParticipantHey Mitch.. Yes Jonathon an me think along the same lines regards harness . The British harness was chain traces with leather covers at the gaskin area {though not always}… I’ll be at Tunbridge next year to meet you all in person:)..
JohnParticipantScotland was mostly single for cartage.. even the street horses were usually a single…. Wonder if that meant a Clyde was better than a Shire:D… Scottish farms didnt use wagons at all… 2 wheeled tip carts were the order of the day.. I upset some of the older guys when I turn up with a team in American harness.. not “traditional”.. but a lot more efficient and easier on the horses I recon..
JohnParticipantMy appologies Ira, I thot we were talking English harness. As far as I can see the Scandanavian harness that Simon uses has the shafts effectively replacing the traces from the pad backwards and wouldnt suit what we would think of as team harness.
JohnParticipantHave to politely disagree there Ira.. There is about 12 ???? mabey.. people in the UK that use draft horses for real work.. most of those hitch teams in the American style or Scandanavian in the timber job like Simon. All the rest are used in show wagons with a mix of American or English style harness with a pole. I cant think when I last saw double shafts used for anything other than an old English farm wagon in a show ring.. Best regards
JohnParticipantThe way I had thot of it was if you had a pan, then hit it hard with tractor and subsoiler 1st, then in subsequent plowings a lighter leg could break up the couple of inches of smeared soil behind the share. I thot this might help prevent a pan being formed as the years pass..
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