[carl ny]

I think I have to agree with Donn. I think they are calmer with another horse beside them. Saying that, I always start a horse alone, just my personal preference. JMHO

Carl nny

[carl ny]

I was just going to say what Mike did. Haflingers and other Draft ponies are excellent riding horses, actually so are the big drafts.

carl ny

[carl ny]

Also if you want a smaller horses you might want to look at draft ponies. They can do an awful lot of work for their size and some of them aren’t that small. Don’t get me wrong ,I love the old style Morgans, just different possibilities.

Carl

[carl ny]

Donn;

I think JJK meant to leave the seat where it is and also where you hook the chains. Just move the backing plate from the back of the seat to the front of the seat, thus allowing you to be able to back over the end of the log a little bit before you hook. Just the way I understood him.

Carl nny

[carl ny]

You can, but a pipe bends,it doesn’t have what we call”memory”. If you bend pipe, it stay’s bent. If you bend wood it will spring back to original, to a certain extent.

Carl nny

[carl ny]

Thanks Erika, I’m quite computer illiterate. And, yup that’s the one.

Carl nny

[carl ny]

I can’t remember who it was but someone use to make one that converted a Pioneer cart to a log cart. I think they advertised in the column to the right. If you wanted a dedicated cart you could make one using this design. My son made one and we love it but then again we are not professional loggers. We use it for fire wood and logs for my sawmill when we are building some thing. We especially like the way the chains hook,you can unhook with any amount of tension on the chains. The chains come up through a slip hook and go to the side to a grab hook, slip hooks near the center of the cart and grab hooks on each side. We set the grab hook at a very slight angle to hinder it coming unhooked by it’s self. Just a little snap of the chain and it is unhooked. HTH

Carl nny

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[carl ny]

When I was a kid we used both horses and tractor. We used a long pole and hauled with a tractor. The pole had an end that looked like the end of a tractor style neap to hook on the drawbar. Made for a long hitch but it worked

Carl

[carl ny]

Donn,Straight up from the axle looks good, Maybe a small gusset in the front. Also maybe small gussets on the inside on the top for sideways stability. I’m a firm believer that it’s easier to do it when everything is straight than trying to straighten things out later.JMHO

carl nny

[carl ny]

Looks good but you might want a brace from where your chains hook, down to the front of the floor board. I think you might have a weak spot just above that lower gusset..JMHO.

Carl nny

[carl ny]

I have a team harness with everything to drive two horses single.

[carl ny]

We never had a problem with our’s.If they are working properly they should drain every time you turn them off,no need for heat tape.If you leave them on and have a float shut-off on a stock tank then you are defeating the purpose of the hydrant.We have a float shut-off in the summer but take it off in the fall and just fill stock tank and then turn it off. We do have a floating heater on the stock tank. We live in northern New York and have some of the coldest temp’s around and have never had a problem as long as the hydrant works like it should. We use about 1″ pea stone and fill from about 6″ below bottom of Hydrant to about 1′ or a little more above the bottom of hydrant, and about 2′ in diameter. HTH

carl nny

[carl ny]

Just a thought. You didn’t say what year but it sounds like my truck. Mine is a 2006. I hope you don’t care about fuel economy because I only get about 10.5 on every day usage.The Ford I had got about 12.5 and the Dodge before that got about 16 mpg. All where comparable trucks. The next one I get I will definitely go back to the Dodge. That’s what I have always had, don’t know why I had to try the others. Live and learn. JMHO

carl nny

[carl ny]

Very good article..

Carl ny

[carl ny]

We got in our first 400 bales today,got a lot more for the next two days. Late year,we usually have the first cutting done by the end of June.

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