Making Singletrees and Eveners

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  • June 19, 2010 at 7:13 pm #41763
    Russel
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    Hi everyone

    Does anyone know of a website that has the plans and specifications for making singletrees and eveners?

    Thanks
    Russel Harvey

    June 19, 2010 at 9:28 pm #60885
    jac
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    Hey Russel you’re on that web site.. Plenty folks on here make stuff. Alot depends on what you intend to do workwise ?? The loggers will give you their own specifications as that industry is real tough on ironwork.. My own neckyokes and singletrees and evenerers are all made with 1″ and 3/4″ steel tubing with half inch round bar forming the ends and centre eyes..
    John

    June 20, 2010 at 8:18 am #60891
    Russel
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    Hi jac, I want to use them for stuff like plowing and discing etc. There arent enough trees here to use for logging 🙂

    June 20, 2010 at 10:25 am #60886
    jac
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    The sizes i mentioned will do that ok, I forgot to mention that the tubing is 1/8th” thick or 3/16″ if you thought you might need a bit more strength, mabey if a bigger team was being hitched you would make the wheel set of the heavier metal…
    John

    June 20, 2010 at 10:54 am #60892
    Russel
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    Can wood be used for plowing etc?

    June 20, 2010 at 12:21 pm #60880
    goodcompanion
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    @Russel 19174 wrote:

    Can wood be used for plowing etc?

    I’ve used both wood and steel eveners for plowing and other farm work. Around here you can find a lot of old wood eveners–seems the majority of eveners and neckyokes used to be wood with iron hardware. So if you make a new wood part and reuse the hardware, you can score yourself a cheap functional evener.

    June 21, 2010 at 2:08 am #60890
    PhilG
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    Don’t use plate steel !

    June 21, 2010 at 3:27 pm #60884
    Big Horses
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    @Russel 19174 wrote:

    Can wood be used for plowing etc?

    It has been for hundreds of years……..
    John

    June 21, 2010 at 4:22 pm #60881
    near horse
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    Hi Russel,

    There’s a “basic” drawing for a wooden doubletree in the book “The Draft Horse Primer” by Maurice Telleen. That said, some of the round pipe or square tubing designs don’t look to hard to fabricate w/ a little bit of welding.

    Are you asking more about the actual measurements of the singletrees etc?

    Good luck –

    June 21, 2010 at 4:32 pm #60893
    Russel
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    Yes I am. I havent been able to find any plans on the internet…

    June 21, 2010 at 8:48 pm #60887
    jac
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    Hi Russel.. A couple of fotos of what I made a few years ago.. The single trees are 36″ overall and the double tree and neckyoke are both 40″ overall. I have a set of singletrees at 32″ that get used mainly in shaft work like the hay turner. Bear in mind that we have full size Clydes but it gives you an idea.. good luck…
    John

    PS Please ignore the spring clips on the singletrees… I got dogs abuse for those 1st time i posted this foto.. I now use shackles

    June 22, 2010 at 5:34 am #60894
    Russel
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    Thanks a lot jac

    June 22, 2010 at 2:32 pm #60882
    near horse
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    Hi John – I’ve got a couple of measurements from some books I’ve got:

    From Farming w/ Horses by Steve Bowers
    “to maintain lateral alignment , the bit centers, neck yoke snap and doubletree widths need to be the same”

    From Lynn Miller ” Workhorse Handbook”
    “singletree standard dimensions are 26, 28,30,36 and 38 inches”
    ” wagon doubletree lengths are 42 an 46 inches while plow-type doubletrees are 36 and 40 inches wide”

    From Draft Horse Primer by Maurice Telleen drawing on pg 263 Fig 7-52

    doubletree = 48 inches wide w/ hooks for traces in 2″ from each end. Wood appears to be 1 3/4 to 2 ” thick and 4 inches deep (So 48 by 4 inches of 2 inch lumber)

    Singletrees = 36 ” by 2 1/4″ by 2″ lumber

    Neck yoke = 38 ” by 3″ by 2″ lumber

    The last measures don’t follow the rule I listed at the top but …. ? Also this mentions that these drawings are available in Autuumn 1973 Draft Horse Journal.

    Good luck.
    “

    June 22, 2010 at 9:51 pm #60888
    jac
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    I’ve heard of the draft horse primer Geoff.. it sounds a good read. I know if I had access to Lynn Millers books in the 70s and early 80s it would have made a huge difference to my use of horses.. Russel if you can access some decent timber, a set of eveners made this way look awwsome….
    John

    June 23, 2010 at 5:18 am #60895
    Russel
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    @ jac, what wood can be used? Any of the following: eucalyptus, oak, poplar, wattle and pine??? Those are the only trees I could actually get wood from…

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