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This was a great weekend to get ready. The RAFFLE SCOOT is Finished! That has been a great learning opportunity and I’m very happy with the results. Once you see it you will want a ticket. We celebrated that goal by shooting a beautiful young lady’s senior pictures and then took the teamster 2000 for cart out for a test drive. It is a very nice unit and is for sale at the gathering.
Today we felled more pine trees for the harvest, to me milled on site by a DAPNet member and used in a sugar house build.
All that and workers are making big progress on the 1828 farmhouse. There is a lot to see. See you soon!

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Bring it up to the Annual Gathering! Lots of people there may want to buy.

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Bill,
can I come down Next Tues around 3-330 pm, after school? I’ll be coming from Westminister Crossing.

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I just put shoes on the scoot. Made from a hardwood beam I believe to be oak from up in the hayloft. Pegged to the runners with 1″ oak pegs, so that as the shoes wear, so will the pegs, and not hang up like metal can. I also rigged the runners with all chains.
Too dark and rainy to get a picture now. I’m just waiting on some fabricated brackets and the scoot will be done.

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I picked up the planed down scoot runners yesterday. They are now 3″ wide oak, not 4.”
After the adventures in hell brook last weekend I’ve decided to make the runner shoes out of hardwood, not pine. Pine is cheap and easy to replace, but wears down real fast on some surfaces.
I am changing one other thing from the plans, pegging the shoes to the runners with 1″ oak pegs instead of threaded rod. I also noticed this weekend that when the shoes wear down to the level of the metal, the metal starts catching a lot of rocks and material. The metal will wear down too, but it causes increased draft, reduces smoothness of the pull, and is a pain to reset.
Everything is ready to assemble and pegs are arriving tonight. I would get it all together except attaching the bunks and will upload pictures. We scouted for hornbeam poles two days ago and I am going to go harvest them this weekend.
Get your tickets now. It’s going to be a good scoot. Hopefully someone finds it in a barn in 100 years and keeps it in service, like the scoot I currently use.

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It was fun Ed. Not as involved at Lincoln woods. We had to go 3/4 mile to the wilderness boundary, mostly uphill. then 2/3-3/4 mile down to the highway.

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Bill, I would be interested in coming down to have a look. I’m in Charlestown, NH and am casually looking for a ground drive pto cart to ted hay.

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I am adding more photos- they key to uploading photos here is to first “resize” or “adjust the size” in a photo program. The Program “preview” does this on a mac. Make your file size smaller but adjusting the photo to 1000 pixels on the long edge. Save it, then upload the smaller file.

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My father in law just bought a leader 1/2 pint evaporator, to be installed on the farm here. I suppose it’s a wedding present. Half depth raised channels for surface area.
So I will be building a sugar house, too, or using the existing barn up the hill. I’m not sure yet.
Next year we’ll buy an expansion pan for the back and be able to boil up around 12 gph.

So we’re getting started. It’s a nice diversification for the farm.

https://www.leaderevaporator.com/p-285-leader-half-pint-evaporator.aspx

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I used mineral oil because that’s what I had. From Donn I heard “Lots of oil in the shop, little or none when cutting.” Believing that the moisture in the plants was enough and less oil reduced accumulation of chaff ( I think)

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Hi Tim,
I am right across the river from you in Charlestown and have messaged with Jada a couple of times. I’d really like to come see your farm or invite you over or just meet up. We have a small farm here, and both my wife and I work off farm as teachers. I do a fair amount of forestry with my team of Percherons, working a 50acre woodlot and dreaming of someday making it a primary source of income. I think the most valuable thing to do now is connect people in the industry, or related to it so that maximum gain can be made from each job.
I’m going to send a message to your farm on FB to see if you are busy over the next few rainy days.

Take care,
Jay Fisher

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I just made a video too Donn, of loose hay. I hope to make it out to the hay making work shop too.

Here’s mine —>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZG0lqb6GYM

(They don’t actually load that fast)

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Thanks Carl,
Some observations:
1) my fiance, in the green hat, still wants to marry me
2) after loading the wagon she says- buy a baler
3) I need a hay trolley for my barn
4) After unloading the wagon by hand she still wants to marry me in 2 1/2 weeks.

It’s a lifestyle we enjoy, and DAPNet has done a lot to make that possible.
Thanks!

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