looking for info guys.

[Anonymous]

Seems like there would be a use for an attachment, made light, that could be mounted to a sickle bar of a mower so as to make it a reaper. Seems like so many small homesteader types that haver onl;y say 5 acres or less of oats, wheat, whatever could benifit with it. Would need a man as a raker. Mount a piece of tin underneith the bar say 4ft wide to rake off from. There might be a way to run a belt from one of the drive wheels, as there wouldnt be near as much resistance in cutting dried grain as to cutting green grass.

Next, I saw several times on another forum people wanting to know where to find a small horse powered thresher. Like the old Groundhog I guess. Then theres treadmills and horse powers that might find a following, especially as many people dont have a large enough area for their horses to exerise, and a power could work for both needs, just plane exerc ise, and supplying tumbling rod power to an impliment, like a stationary thresher.

Then theres a need for a corn binder. Im thinking of haveing a metal platform on wheels, close to the ground with guides in front for 1 row of corn like a regular binder. The trick is devising how to make the cutter work. Im thinking of some way to make use of a 8in saw blade. Then after the corn had been cut it would be laid across 2 H like hangers. A person behind those hangers would have twine to bind the shock with, then take it out of the Hs and lay it onto a carrier which, after sufficent number of shocks to make a full shock of corn would drop it, or drop it into windrows as it were, that is, dropping them at a particular place that is in line with previously dropped shocks. Is that a start??

[nihiljohn]

Tim, I used that very system for years while milking cows. It worked well. As to the Brush hog, I&J has a ground drive fore cart that I saw at Horse Progress Days this year. 4 mules walked a JD baler down the field with no trouble at all. It looked to be a fine machine. Now I look at my hay tedder, pull tupe combine, and corn picker and say “Hmmmmmm”.

[gwpoky]

Douglas, I am working on a rig that may help with the front end loader Andy is looking for. The team works it just like they do on a buck
rake. right now I am mounting a small forklift boom to it so I can load and unload round bales on a trailer, but the same concept could be used with a loader. Currently I plan on it being electric over hydraulic, charging the batteries with a solar panel when not in use it. For loader work it may need to be a hybrid, I have a small Yanmar diesel I can run on used veggie oil if need be. Winter is approaching, time to play in the shop.

P.S. Have you ever read the Farm Show Magazine? It is full of all kinds of farm born ideas and a few good horse powered ones.

Cheers.

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