[Mike Rock]

Is that perhaps Chester Mullet? A gentleman by that name worked up here at Detweiler’s Harness shop and was a wonderful harness maker.

Mike

[Mike Rock]

Drop me a line.  mikerockatmhtc.net, please.

Would like to look at the nr. 3.

Most respectfully,
Mike

[Mike Rock]

I have bought two #9’s lately and both had the double teeth on the end of the bar.

Does Leon Brubaker have a catalog or is it just call and hope?

Mike Rock

[Mike Rock]

For what it’s worth, I have a bag of dried apple slices twenty years old. I mixed honey and water at a 1:1 ratio and dipped the apple slices and let them drip and dry on a screen. They are as good and fresh as they were twenty years back, a tad bit browner but not as brown as a bruised apple is when you slice into it. I eat a few each year. From the looks of things I could bake a pie tonight with those apples and no one would notice.

God bless.

Mike

[Mike Rock]

That Balemaster is slick. I think it is possible to modify a similar round bale hauler that loads with a bale spear by adding the pipe across the sides and the teeth. By the way, it doesn’t look like you want to rest your butt on this thing very long!
Anyhow, by adding the sides and vertical units a conversion is possible for me. Neighbor has a round bale hauler with a cut under front with narrow wheels and he does not like it at all. He is nervous on hillsides with it. He is NOT a farmer, just a gardener with sheep so wanted to haul round bales…. My gain. Also, we do a lot of small squares and if a guy added some cross pieces under the sides we could place them on this rig right compactly and LOW TO THE GROUND. That help when you have old legs and hopping up on a wagon hurts, or you have short help (wife!).

Thanks for the inspiration to more perspiration.

Mike

[Mike Rock]

Exactly!

Mike

[Mike Rock]

Once you use a tongue truck on a binder it is habit forming. Nice turns, no neck weight on the team, I just like it!

Mike

[Mike Rock]

Back in the sixties when I raced a BSA Goldstar we used Castrol. The stuff had to be drained after a race as it set up like jelly. It was supposedly made from Castor Beans. If it’s still out there it will work, I’d think.

Did smell nice too!

Mike

[Mike Rock]

Shoot, shovel and shut up!! That cures a wealth of ills.

:))

[Mike Rock]

Growing Organic Sorghum for Syrup
Sweet sorghum is a high-value crop that grows well in Kentucky and has very few … sorghum on June 6th, using an Earthway row seeder fitted with a ‘radish’ …
organic.kysu.edu/Sorghum.shtml – Cached – Similar

http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/sorghumsyrup.html

nssppa.org/Sorghum_Production.html

There….that ought’a keep you occupied for a bit!!

Those are the folks that know the most. Morris Bitzer passed on last year.
He sold me my first seeds and spent time walking me through the whole process.
He loved to teach.

Mike

[Mike Rock]

Gristmillers@gristmillers.com
>>> http://lists.gristmillers.com/mailman/listinfo/gristmillers

Syrupmakers@syrupmakers.net
http://lists.syrupmakers.net/mailman/listinfo/syrupmakers

If these two lists don’t keep you in trouble nothing will.

Ask on Gristmillers for seed and stand back!~ Many folks will share seed for postage alone.

A wealth of knowledge and these guys are devoted to making sure it stays in the world, not in the grave.

Most respectfully,
Mike Rock

[Mike Rock]

Mitch,
‘The Evener’ is now ‘Rural Heritage’.

Mike

[Mike Rock]

Andy,
Get a copy of Faulkner’s ‘The Plowman’s Folly’. It will set your mind at ease about discing. Also from Acres USA get Newman Turner’s ‘Fertility Farming’ and enjoy. Just the disc and the drill are all you need to plant amazingly good crops and forget weeds, pretty much. They make good ‘companions’ for your crops, provided they are not to prevalent, was his attitude. Good mulch and deep rooters bring up minerals and deposit them when they die.

I think the references these guys provide will be most interesting.

Most respectfully,
Mike

Many good books are available online. One good source of ag books is:

http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/01aglibwelcome.html

They allow you do download and print your own!! Keeps me out of trouble but printer cartridges are expensive :((

[Mike Rock]

Carl,
Your link to Ace Hardware led to the hooks and tools by CM. The hook forgings you could see detail on said ‘Forged…USA’. So I went to CM. It is Columbus McKinnon out of Amherst, NY, USA. Much of their equipment and hardware is from known USA sources and what is not they tell you where it was made. I love this company!!! You CAN get quality AMERICAN MADE hardware still today. Not Communist Chinese shit…….

Thank you so much for that link.

Now….I am looking for slip hooks with the extra eye on the back for logging and pulling use. I do not like welding an extra eye or loop on the back of a hook if I can avoide it. Would rather have it forged in when made. I am still looking at CM’s offerings but I HAD to say thank you for the link.

Most respectfully,
Mike Rock
SWissconsin

[Mike Rock]

Hi,
If anyone else comes up with a stash of Rural Heritage, I would be pleased to buy them. As far back as possible. It looks like they now have another new subscriber! I went to the website and was blown away by what I had missed.
The market garden article by Anne and Eric Nordell was familiar because I have SFJ, but this one was different as well. Now……to get my big garden spread out bigger and use the horses more for it.

Thanks to whomever pipes up!

Most respectfully,
Mike Rock
SW Wisconsin…..it is snowing.
Looking for -5 to -15 for a bit, then the forties(+) by early next week.

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