hi folks looking for a little (a lot) of help

[D.Walker]

well introductions first

my name is Douglas Walker im 26 and live in ayrshire scotland and im an electrical engineering student also with a background in physics and farming.

ill be honest im not a draft farmer or anything like that but i am here to see if i can hopefully help as well as get help. the reason for that is the college i attend was approached by a local man that i believe is called JAC on here, (might be wrong on that though) to see if the engineering department could perhaps help solve some of the problems with ground driven equipment. and ill admit he has been great for information but i am a firm believer that the more points of veiw you get the better your results should be.

so if there is anyone out there looking for help and would be willing to give me some input id love to hear from you.

Douglas

[jac]

Hi Douglas, glad to hear you on here… could’ve done with your skill this hay time with my anique mower;).. Im sure you will get answers to all your questions right here on this site. DAP is the main forum out there for trading info on not only draft animals but sustainable farming. Hope you have fun on here…and with any luck you’ll come up with a breakthrough for draft powered machines.. besides we Scots invented like…….everything hahaha :cool:..
John

[D.Walker]

well i was gonna see about making arrangements to get out in the next few weeks to see you at the farm. just need to see what time i got. been trying to think on that damned rolling C design you thought about but everytime i make progress on it i find more problems… times its a good job you aint been about 😛

wanted to go over a few ideas i had for the hitch cart but on the overall framework i think im pretty fixed in my head for the design. but what ill need to get is dimentions, again part of the reason im on here is for the research. also ive had a few simple ideas on a forresting hitchcart (silly random thoughts i had when i been working) so if you could perhaps put me in touch with the guy you were talking about that does that i can perhaps get additional information off of him and perhaps finnish off the design and pass it onto him which could perhaps help him with his productivity, depends on the information i get back.

just need to hope i get a small group of people on board that i can quiz for information

[jac]

Well Carl, Jason, Mitch, Scott and a whole host more are real loggers on here… come on you guys !!.. Im away to the combine on Friday for a month but if you call in at the house Andrea will be more than happy to take you up to the stables.. will talk better when I get back. Its great that you’ve had some thoughts on the issues we have and thanks for your time on this..
John

[near horse]

Hi Douglas,

I think you may have caught this group at a time when most are up to their eyeballs in work so likely little time to respond (or at least thoughtfully respond). As I read your post, it’s still a little unclear to me as to what specific information/ideas you’re looking for. Forecart design? Logging arch design? Both? As John has pointed out, there are professional loggers on this site and he named only a quick few of them. If you’re talking arches, also keep your eye out for posts from logger John Plowden – he’s fabbed an arch or two himself.

So be patient with us – those in the know will get involved when they get the opportunity IMO. And welcome!

[D.Walker]

rite now its a bit of everything im looking for, ive been largly working on a new design for a lightweight hitchcart for john, but im hoping once i get back to college we can see bout getting a team together to start building it (if i finally get the finnished design on the one exploded construction diagram)

john has been giving me tons of ideas and ive been trying to rattle out basic rough designs in my head but the main trailer attachment im now looking at is a bail lifter, (btw john i came up with a possible tottally different idea to your rolling C lifter concept you thought of so i might run through that see what you think.) from what john told me of the farming side there are various forms of it, infact i watched a youtube video of one working, but from what im making out its a slow process, so im hoping to see if i can improve that, create a purpose designed hitchcart and trailer that could pull 4-6 bails onto it and then transport to barn.

as for the forestry concept i thought of i really need information, i posted in the forestry section for the information i need for the time being, but what it is basically is an up and over hitchcart, where the logs could be pulled below the operators seat and then use the logs themselves to make a “trailer” of sorts.

and thanks for welcome

[near horse]

Hey Douglas,

I don’t know if you’ve scrolled through the pictures on here but there are some hitch carts and logging arches in there (although right now it’s a highly disorganized mass of photos).

Geoff

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