work photos and mower update

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Hello all,
July 9, 2010

Thought I would share a few pics, two of me working Prince in the garden tonight, it has been so hot for the last week it’s the only time I’ve wanted to get out there. And the others are update photos of my one horse mower I have been working on. Hope every one is well.
Richard
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[Donn Hewes]

hi Richard, Nice looking set up. what are your plans for the tongue? A dolly wheel perhaps. I think a dolly wheel makes a great one horse mower set up; but just my opinion. You remind me to cultivate my beans this week! Donn

[Michael Colby]

I just bought a fixer-upper one-horse Osborne mower. I’d be very interest to hear about where you bought/found parts for your mower project — especially the knives and guards.

Donn: Shafts and a single tree are attached to the stub-tongue. It’s operated with one horse at an offset to the mower side. I’ve seen the photos but am still very curious about the weight on the back pad.

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Don, first I have read many of your posts and welcome your opinion. As Michael states below I will be adding the shafts, but at this point I am still fabricating the metal hardware. What advantage would the tongue truck give?

Michael, other then the stub tongue, cotter pins and some odds and ends bolts this mower is all original(except paint). There are a few parts I still need that I can’t make like the grass board and stick as well as the hardware for these. As for the waight on the horses back pad I belive atleast with this mower it will be next to nothing, when I sit in the seat now (without the shafts) the tongue lifts up, so with the shafts it should be a near perfect balance.
Richard

[Joshua Kingsley]

A grass board can be made from a piece of pine, the stick can be a dowel that is cut on an angle and bolted to the board. If you need some measurements I can try to get them off from my JD #3.

Joshua

[mitchmaine]

hey all, a few photos penny took tonight kicking hay with our mower forecart. dick, molly and our new little twitch horse, belle(the dark horse).

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[Donn Hewes]

Mitch, that looks great. I am hard on it. Because I took two mowers apart to make one, I salvaged the long right side drive shaft. I believe I maybe able to use this for a PTO shaft. I am also planning to put a dolly wheel on it. I will make sliding tongue to switch between two and three horses. Thanks for all your help. Donn

Richard, I have a friend that has just recently started working her Halflinger in a very similar mower. I think it is going well, but the horse is learning to work harder than it has been asked to before. Short stints at first so it can keep the mower speed up and let it rest before it quits. I will see if she can get on here with an update. Shafts do have the added benefit of putting the weight on the back saddle. There shouldn’t be any problem there.

[Howling Farmer]

Hi Richard,
I’m the one Donn mentioned who just started mowing with my Haflinger. Have you gotten your mower up and running yet? Mine is quite similar. It’s a New Ideal, which was made by Deering, but looks almost identical to yours. I actually just picked up another mower too that is the same as yours. Might need to pick your brain at some point when I go to get it running, although it does work now.

I’d be curious to hear how your mowing goes. Mowing is much harder work than Milt is used to, and I’m having a hard time keeping him going. I saw the great pictures of you cultivating. What other work do you do with your Haflingers?
Leslie

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@Joshua Kingsley 19679 wrote:

A grass board can be made from a piece of pine, the stick can be a dowel that is cut on an angle and bolted to the board. If you need some measurements I can try to get them off from my JD #3.

Joshua

Broom stick works good for the grass stick. I wouldn’t try mowing w/o a grass board – seems like destined to plug the knife.

Richard – great looking mower. How can you bring yourself to get it dirty?!:)

[mitchmaine]

richard, a friend called with a problem on his one horse mcd mower. he broke his flywheel where the wrist pin joins. he doesn’t think he can pull his pitman shaft with the flywheel on it because of the cast housing in front of it. can’t see to well from your photos but do you think the same? if so, you’d have to pull the flywheel while the shaft was still in the mower?? let me know what you think.

mitch

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Wow what great weather the last two days, we got all our hay in monday. My 3yo son even helped, he moved the empty wagons….
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Mitch, I don’t think you could pull it with the flywheel on, but I am not an expert so I’ll post a few more pictures so maybe you can tell, if you need more or a differnt angle let me know.
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Near Horse, I can’t wait to use it and get it dirty.

Leslie, You are way ahead of me mowing, I am yet to hitch it up, but soon. We use our horse for everything from showing at the fairs in cart, to riding on trail rides and everything I can think of around the farm(hauling firewood, culivating, slip scoop work, soon mowing.)

Now I have a question and a idea. First the question I am setting up this mower and set the lead on the bar at 3/4″ does this sound right, it is a 4′ bar?
Now my idea, I was thinking(hoping) that maybe one of you guys with a mower might post a short video of your mowers and do a walkaround of it and talk about what everything dose how to adjust and safty issues. There is a few short videos on youtube but no one shows or tells what they are doing. Just an idea.

Thank you,
Richard

[Howling Farmer]

Richard — A mowing video sounds like a great idea. Before I started to mow, I went and got some instruction from Donn. Mowing is complicated, I am finding. A lot to keep track of all at the same time. I still feel like I’m trying to pat my head and rub my stomach at the same time. I’ll be interested to hear how your Haflingers do. Milt is a reluctant mower and I’m trying to figure out if it’s the mower not working at its best, too much mower for too little a horse, or simply a lazy, overweight, out-of-shape equine.
Leslie

[mitchmaine]

thanks richard for the extra photos. seems like you can’t just pull te shaft out clean. although pulling just the flywheel while in the machine would be alot of strain on the pinion gear and bearing. does it look like it might have a tappered key? anyone out there with some knowledge about this? help needed.

mitch

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