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ParticipantSorry Al .. mis read your post.. thot you asked “if it was repairable” not ” it is repairable” need to read twice from now on …
JohnParticipantHi Al.. Cant help you with the linkage thing except to check out Lynn Millers mower book but im sure some of the lucky guys who own one of these beauties might post a foto.. The casting can be welded with varying success. I welded a bit on the gearing housing on my hay turner with my mig.. Full power and shove the wire in !! totaly cleaned it with the gas axe 1st to get rid of all the oil.. its just finished this seasons hay.. your weld will have to put up with a lot more force tho, so prob best to use a stick welder with a cast rod.. good luck, by what I’ve heard of these mowers they seem to be the dogs doodahs…
JohnParticipantBoth these tools are real handy and the freedom they give.. I think there is a tool for punching holes in bio and heat sealing it but probly expensive.. another small thing I keep handy is a couple of bull rings.. they can be used if a fitting gives way but doesnt wreck the stitching.. least if its not to big a load bearing area.. used them in halters a couple of times …
JohnParticipantMitch I know a couple of Polish friends who are working over here just now and they commented on the difference in the food on the shelf department.. in Poland it is perhaps 10% or 15% microwavable and the rest is fresh.. over here it is almost the opposite…embarrasing to say the least.. we even have milk being packaged with “additions” to make it “even better than milk” and the folks are buying it !!!!! but if I was to mention raw milk … oh no!! cant do that.. needs to put thru a factory 1st :eek:….
JohnParticipantGood point Ixy,I hadnt thot of the diff between fat thats walked off and fat thats trimmed off… and of course we have the 30 month rule because of BSE now as well…and that was a government cock up as well… do our American cousins have this rubbish to put up with I wonder ???..
JohnParticipantThis is a great web site.. press a few plastic buttons on the puter and all the info is there on the screen. Its strange how the American and indeed the British public turned away from lean meat to the Herford/Angus type with the higher fat cover and now its full circle and the demand for leaner meat again. Is there any of these cattle families with a web site ? These old breeds facinate me …
JohnParticipantThanks for the detailed answer OldKat.. its a shame so many bad owners get to keep these cattle just to save some $$$$ .. your mention of not being able to keep them in reminds me of our Blackface sheep.. an old shepherd I knew once said he had the answer to them straying into the wrong field..”put em in the field you dont want them in, and they will end up in the right one”… As you say tho.. a real part of your history and almost an icon along with the bison.. or at least on this side of the puddle…
JohnParticipantOldKat you have 10s of thousands of these Texas Longhorns in your area !!… are they still a viable beef breed ? or are they used for out crossing to more modern types ? Do they still look the same as the 1800s example.. forgive the questions but as a Scotsman I have never seen these cattle except for my John Wayne films… who along with Ben Johnson made a great cowboy film BTW…
JohnParticipantOver here Ash is the prefered timber, some of the old railway equipment that was used for extreme pulls like boilers were made of Oak. For general draft I think Oak would be a bit heavy,plus the tannin in the wood rots mild steel bolts. British Pine quality isnt as good as other countries so I cant really comment on the Pine you have over there.. I hope some of the loggers are reading this coz these guys really know timber and will be a better source of info regards use.
JohnParticipantI’ve heard of the draft horse primer Geoff.. it sounds a good read. I know if I had access to Lynn Millers books in the 70s and early 80s it would have made a huge difference to my use of horses.. Russel if you can access some decent timber, a set of eveners made this way look awwsome….
JohnParticipantHi Russel.. A couple of fotos of what I made a few years ago.. The single trees are 36″ overall and the double tree and neckyoke are both 40″ overall. I have a set of singletrees at 32″ that get used mainly in shaft work like the hay turner. Bear in mind that we have full size Clydes but it gives you an idea.. good luck…
JohnPS Please ignore the spring clips on the singletrees… I got dogs abuse for those 1st time i posted this foto.. I now use shackles
ParticipantHi Donn.. thats a situation that can so easily lead to a total wreck but it says a lot about the conditioning you clearly spent on your team when they settled in the space of only 100′ . I agree with you regards the hitch cart but wonder about the change of point of draft..a potato spinner for example.. Main thing is you and the team are safe..
JohnParticipantJust looking at Carls fotos there…Is there any reason why the leaf spring has to be mounted in angle iron ?. Could the smaller helper spring not be put on the inside of the curve and the spring turned so its curve is around the horse so to speak with a shackle on each eye to take the heel chains and the pulling hook round the other way.. no friction that way and lighter ?….
JohnParticipantGeorge I think your right.. obvious really:o…
JohnParticipantMitch I seem to recall reading somewhere that Lynn reconed it would take fairly tall horses to get that number, but as for why it was important beats me.. can only imagine its to do with cutterbar tilt angle coz I know on mine if the pole was too low, by the time I had adjusted the tilt lever to bring the fingers level, the pitman was running pretty steep compared to the knife. BTW how long is the factory pole you have?.when i broke my old one i had one at 12’6″ but thought it was too short…..
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