New to DAP old to Drafts Ann from Ca.

[Ann]

Hi from the small n calif. town of Philo. I have had horses all my 60 years and Shires the last 20+ I also have a machine shop. We have restored lots of old horse drawn equipt. and made our own. We have 300 acres of timber, hay field and veggys and use the guys for everything. We have just come out with a walk behind farm tool we call Anny’s All-In-One. I think it’s our best yet. we use it on our veg garden that’s on a side hill with our Shires, We hooked it to a minny horse last weekend who ripped and cultivated with it. Our neighbor has a market garden between apple orchard rows and uses it with a fjord, an other friend uses it with a burro in a potato farm, and another friend uses it in her hoop houses seems pretty versatal. I am happy to have found this forum there is a lot I can learn from everyone.

[Chum 62]

Ann it would be nice to see a pictures of your Anny’s all in one
Chum

[dominiquer60]

Welcome Ann!

It is great to have another drafty innovator on board, I can’t wait to hear more about your new tool.

Erika

[Ethan Tapper]

Ann,
Nice to have another person from the west coast here! Seems like our community is reaching out your way more and more these days. It sounds like you have a great setup out there. I also am working Shires right now and really like them.

I, like Chum, would like to see your invention. If you are planning on selling your tool, consider becoming a business member of DAPNet (see draftanimalpowernetwork.org) and getting listed in our Web Business Directory, or advertising in one of our publications. By the sound of it, people in our community would be really interesting in checking the Anny’s all-in-one.

Otherwise, it sounds like you have some expertise and passion about draft animal power to share, and we can’t get enough of that around here.

Welcome the network! We’re glad to have you.
Ethan

[KMichelle]

I’ve seen the add for this tool in the SFJ, and an article too… I went to the website listed, but I only found submarines (not that it is not really incredible)… alot of your art work it really great too! The hinges and harness brasses… Do you have more written work about the Anny’s All In One? I’m getting ready to make purchases for my homesteading operation and yours is definately of interest!

[Ann]

Dear K Michelle, I am new to the computer so bare with me. I am happy to send any and all inf. to you if you send me your email. I have been trying to get it on our website but can’t find anyone to help and am getting it done very slowly myself. We hope to have it on u tube tomorow. I will say it is a high quality tool made of plow steels, case hardened parts and hickory. This is for long lasting. We stand by it and will be there when you need something. We will make tooling for special applications. We also use it ourselves. Thus being said it is not the $200 WalMart tool everyone is looking for. It is for serious horse farmers. I hope that doesn’t sound bad… I have gotten a lot of nasty emails from people who haven’t seen it to know. Thank you for your interest. Ann

[near horse]

Hi Ann,

I heard the “all in one” might make it to the SFJ auction in Madras, OR. Did you get to demonstrate one there? I had to miss it this yr but did see pics somewhere.

[Ann]

Dear Geoff, I did make it to the auction and demo the Anny’s. It was well received and many people got to try it out. I got to spend sometime with Mr.Pioneer equipt. and compare notes. A delightful man. My biggest problem is in a picture all it looks like is a stick with 2 wheels? I am going to have a couple of videos on u tube by the end of the week of some early trials we did maybe that will help. The other problem is everyone wants a $200 Wal Mart tool and a new one next year. I often question who is smarter, someone who builds something of quality so as not to use up the worlds resources and starves to death doing so or someone who gets what they can when and however they can and has it just a lot easier and is better received by others.

[KMichelle]

Sounds great Ann, I don’t shop at Walmart anyway… kmichellesanders@yahoo.com I’d appreciate whatever you can send! I guess maybe a visit and trial run is in order, but that would be several months away, anyway – thanks for your good work!

[Anthony]

Videos and such from a few months ago showing it in action and a short description. Ann maybe you could comment on the videos?

http://www.draftanimalpower.com/showthread.php?4866-Interesting-new-single-animal-cultivating-implement

[Ann]

Yes of course I am happy to say a little. The first videos from months ago were the very first trials a long while back. The video that came out a few days ago and the one to come out today or tomorrow are also old from this winter but are almost the finished product minus paint case hardening and small details . The implements also have some small changes. It maybe hard to see you can off-set you and the handles. Anny’s part 1 They are off setting because they are running against the raspberry row. When they first enter they are running with the ripper pointing up so it can run along and not dig in so you don’t have to carry it to the plot. Once at the plot you change the angle of the ripper with the lever and dig in. Handle bar hight adjusts with a simple pull lever at any time. so at the end of the row if you want to side pass close over you can drop the handles like a wheelbarrow and lift it around with straight arms instead of bent arm lifting it around. Or if you start your row and the ripper or furrower goes deeper then you thought it would, you can adjust instead of walking the whole patch all bent over. The handles adjustment will also accommidate very small to very big people. Draft can also adjust for minnies and has been used with minnies to full draft horses. Use of wheels is fully adjustable, removable or just one wheel without the bar. There are ball detent quick pull pins on the tooling and the handle bar off set so you don’t need tools. I have many implements I have made and used for as much as 20 years and never lost one nor wore one out. The wheel bar and the 2 off sets allow you to cultivate or hill a crop row and not walk on your crop. I hope to get a video of me and one of my horses specificly showing the adjustments and some possibilities very soon. I am not a computer person nor do I live close to any so it takes me a while to figure it out . No broad band until this winter here.

[Andy Carson]

I think it is a good design feature to be able to adjust the number and placement of the wheels. I have attached a link below to some work by Tillers demonstrating the effect of different wheel placements in cultivators. Some placements make them very hard to stear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNZFn3-d-N0&feature=channel&list=UL

[near horse]

Here’s a link to a site with a few pics of the All in One. I think it’s a fellow Californian.

https://sites.google.com/a/blankityblank.biz/http-www-blankityblank-biz/news/eco-fiat-petro-man

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