Spreader Question

[Does’ Leap]

I am in the final stages of renovating an old spreader and one of my last tasks is attaching the pole and evener. The pole attaches to the spreader via a three sided square. Pole slips in the open side and bolted through the sides with two bolts. There is no apparent place for the evener. My thought was to drill through the pole and attach the evener with a pin but I am not sure this is strong enough. Another option would be to weld a piece of flat steel that would project over the pole with a hole in it. I would then pin through the welded plate and the pole – a seemingly stronger option.

Any suggestions on these options or another method altogether?

George

[Plowboy]

For full size horses the hole should be about 9’6″ from the end of the tongue. Really on a wooden tongue you need 2 holes and what most around here call a hammerstrap. It is a piece of bent steel bolted to the tongue behind the evener flat that goes up over the evener and your pin goes through the hammerstrap evener and tongue. The purpose of the hammerstrap is to hold the pin straight so the evener doesn’t twist which will eggshap your tongue hole and evener eventually causing a split if you don’t use one. I think Meaders has them if you can’t find them somewhere else. Any Pioneer dealer should have them as well as nose irons for wooden tongues for about 2/3 Meaders price.

[Neil Dimmock]

Before you cut the pole off put your double tree on top of the pole and turn it all the way to both sidea and move the double tree ahead on the pole untill it cant catch on the wheels that is your first hole then the next is 9’6″ for the neckyoke or if there bigger go 10′

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