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Joshua Kingsley
ParticipantAt least the red ones use way less fuel and are easier to fix than those green things….
then again there is nothing that is so sweet as the smell of sweat. I’ll take that over a tractor any day.
Joshua
ParticipantPeople Like him make the world a better place. May he rest in peace and his family remember the goodness of his spirt as well as any others he touched in his own way.
God bless,Joshua
ParticipantI got some of the Chantecler roosters culled out and put on to the dinner table last weekend. They are still tender as boneless brests for some recipies that Jess has. The meat has great texture and flavor, not as watery as the commerical store bought meats. The carcass was not as “finished” as some breeds though the cockrels had fat on them so they were not real thin. These birds were about 8 months of age at processing.
As far as the hens go I had my first eggs when the days were short and the temps were below Zero. They do go broody and they seem like a nice hen to deal with. I do prefer the partridge variety over the buff but that is mostly my own liking.
Just thought I would give an up date.
JoshuaParticipantIf I ever tought My steers to jump My dad would have my butt in a sling…. I can see it now a quiet day in the pasture for the cows and one of the steers decides the poly wire is just low enough and bang out goes the rest of the herd.
Joshua
ParticipantKeep looking you will find what you want.
If you were closer I would tell ya to come over and give the team I just picked up a spin. They are 11 and 12, about 12.2hh geldings and they seem to have it together even after many years off.. I plan to work them steady for the next several weeks and see how they do. If Jess had it her way I think that she would have them stay right here… I don’t know though its hard to beat a good Suffolk..
JoshuaParticipantGot out a new pair of ponies today and dragged a little wood after a 5 hour sesson of cleaning them up… The manes were a matted up mess!!! burdocks and prickers, if the team were not going to be up forsale in the spring they would have been roached and started over new. The team was hot for the first 1/4 mile but settled in nicely. They have been kicked out for the last 4 years or so. It was good to be working a team again.
JoshuaParticipantI have had two geldings one was a draft and the other was a saddle horse. My draft would get on his knees and crawl to get the load out and he was paired up with one of my mares. My favorite horse to work was my big belgian Stallion. He was a real power house and a great horse to deal with. He was another horse that didn’t know when to quit.
My preference is to not have geldings any more. They are terminal so they can never reproduce, like mares. They don’t have quite the drive a good mare or stallion will exert for you. Plus with a good mare and a good stallion you won’t have to buy in a working horse for a while, and you can have foals for sale to offset the costs of having working teams.
Joshua
ParticipantYou all are making me wish I had enough trees to tap out 🙁 We live on the Creek here and the last few days the sap would be running like crazy. I have my stainless pan from an barrel rig that needs a new arch so maby that can be a “pet” project for next year…
Have fun and be safe duing this great season.
JoshuaParticipantGeoff,
As far as I know alot of old swathers had at least one high volume hydrolic pump on them. The pump will allow for a higher pressure build up while utilizing a low ground speed. With the use of a pressure resivor you can have the power at your finger tips and the advantage of rapid recovery. So IF and that could be a big IF I am correct in my thinking you have the right parts to allow for some hydrolic use with minimal investment. You may have to do some digging in the “guts” of the machine to find all the parts that you are going to need in order to make the system work but if you already own it then you don’t have to buy it.
JoshuaParticipantJohn,
You may want to consider a spring system that lifts your seeder. With the springs having the right amount of tension the machine would “Float” and then you could use a lever back to the cart to gain your lift.I am just thinking that the tractor drawn mowing machines can float an extream amount of weight on a couple of springs that makes the cutter head weight into a lifting weight of only a few pounds. This also allows the machine to glide over obsticals where as a heavy weight would make the machine dig in. Think of the difference of a light stick or a heavy log when it comes to gliding across the ground when being dragged.
In regards to the idea of running the hydrolics from a wheel you should be able to keep the hydrolics engaged all the time as the valve should allow the oil to pass through in the “off” position. Think of tractor pumps, the pump is running all the time weather the hydrolics are being used or not. The only thing to take into account is what is the proper rotation of the pump to gain the right amount of flow. To get the right flow you need to get the ratio correct for the pump rotation.
You may want to use both to get a rapid response from the hydrolics as the springs would allow the rapid lift at the end of a pass.
Joshua
ParticipantBest of luck in your new endevor.
A word of caution I would start really slow when introducing a competition pulling horse to any type of equipment. I had a former pulling horse that was sold to me as a wheeler in a 6 horse hitch and there were some really hairy points along the way. She settled down and I was able to work her for two years until she almost took my hand off when a log choker rattled and clinked off the steel evener one day.
I have also had one pair that were former pulling horses that were as good as gold when they were on the farm. When loaded and taken anywhere to work that had a crowd they were HOT.
It all depends on the horse and how you are with them and I wish you the best.
JoshuaParticipantA brontosaurus is a large excavator with a chipper head attachment, they have become common in the High Tension Power line trimming for places where they are able to work. They turn the tree or woody debris into chipped / ground mulch some of the operators that I know of are really good with thier equipment and give reliably small chipps and I have seen one other guy whom I don’t know that leaves a lot longer chip length. Though the chips are still faster to decompose than a whole tree would be.
Joshua
ParticipantThe runner should bolt on to the same patern as the wheels. There should be no problem of drum interference. Same principal as putting on a spare tire when you get a flat on a wagon or on a car the runners should pop over the drums.
Take the above advice with a grain of salt as I no longer own a pioneer cart and mine did not have brakes.
Good luck and have fun.Joshua
ParticipantI can relate Donn,
I have had several people stop before and ask when I am gonna put a gate up by the road for my drafts…. I have Gallager Bungee gates in there now and they have been coated with heavy snow once or twice this year and were on the ground. I have also had people not see the 3/8 inch round white fencing during the winter….I am puttering on thinning a stand of elm and assorted hard woods on one of our pastures. The trees are so thick in some spots that they are less than 3 feet apart. Hopefully in a few years the cattle and horses will actually be able to move in there. It will be a welcome source of shade in the summer for the herd.
Joshua
ParticipantThe charcoal is for heating the part to a cherry state after you have ground out a V in wich to get good penetration in the cast if it is cast iron. Nickle will adhere to the casts porious structure of the cast iron. When it is heated to a dull red and then brushed with a wire brush you weld the hot pieces together and then place back into the heat or into a pile of sand to cool slowly.
With cast steel I have found a higher nickle rod will take the abuse with a lower heat on the amperage and that will allow the weld to have a better “flow” than you could achive with some of the other rods on the market.On a side note my uncle and I have welded mower wheels with the heat and weld method with great sucess.
Just some ramblings from a young farmer
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