[JaredWoodcock]

There is an amish harness maker in Whithall NY just over the border from Poultney VT. He is on Hatch Hill Rd.

[JaredWoodcock]

Did you give your wife some time off from stacking the wagon?

Lookin good, trying to make it out for the workshop!

[JaredWoodcock]

Wow, You have me beat for sure. My wife does not like my farm ideas, it is like pulling teeth to get her to help me. She has finally come around for chicken butchering but I will never convince her that haying is a good idea…. Maybe once my kids are big enough they will help dad out.

Nice work, have a great wedding!

[JaredWoodcock]

Thanks Donn, Good tip, I had only seen where people had clipped bits onto normal halters, not the other way around.
I might see how much a new leather one might cost to be made because my bridles are pretty old handmedowns anyway.

[JaredWoodcock]

Thanks Erika, I think I will set it up to the original shaft style for now. I dont actually need it right now but my antique dealer friend needed to move it and I thought it was worth hanging on to.

[JaredWoodcock]

I found one with a little more googling

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Fez2qZP3pQA/TF9bgUXnpVI/AAAAAAAAGSs/rgn5W2xCEqg/s1600-h/1horsepeanutweeker4.jpg

[JaredWoodcock]

I cant seem to upload the photos, It is the antique style of “tine weeder” where there are spring tooth style fingers, 3 parallel rows all of which are about 9 ft wide. I know it is used for blind cultivation and to stir in broadcasted seed. I am just wondering how it was rigged to work because the wooden pieces are broken off.
Here is a link I just found with the same weeder bolted to a cultivator. I dont think this was the original design because they have the same broken wooded bars that dont seem to serve a purpose for them either.
http://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=farmall&th=868231

I have pretty good pictures of mine if I can email them to someone who can post?

Let me know your thoughts on the original setup.

[JaredWoodcock]

Photo try #2

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Try a Photo

[JaredWoodcock]

Carl, if you have any cool info/pics from the swedes please post for us?

Thanks

[JaredWoodcock]

I like the idea of a network just so that I can get together with all of you and learn on an annual basis. At this point I have had so much positive response from landowners and the county forester that I am not concerned about finding work, I am more concerned on how to fit it into my already busy schedule. I just made a first step by selling my swine breeding stock.

Carl, are you currently working that piece you outlined above? I will be heading through that neck of the woods in the next month or so. I would love to stop by to check it out. All of my jobs are tiny and paid hourly, I am still in the learning curve part to see how real loggers are making a go of it.

[JaredWoodcock]

Congrats, I hope the joy doesnt go away after years of hay making! Tell Phil Warren Jared Woodcock says hi! Phil gave me my very first “small farmers journal” hand me down pile.

[JaredWoodcock]

I test drove the 4ft brush hog behind the I and J cart this morning and it did much better than I thought it would. I just mowed the sides of the road but it was fairly thick grass and clover. a little vibration but not as hard of a pull as I had expected. I need to modify my hitch so that it will turn easier but Im more optimistic now. I will repost once I figure out the turning radius/side draft issue.

[JaredWoodcock]

I have the brush hog mocked up to the I an J ground drive cart right now. I need to fix the valve stem on one wheel, but hopefully I will get a chance to test it this week. I will let you know if it is “peaceful” or not. I dont think it will chop up thick rye but we will see.

[JaredWoodcock]

Thanks John, I put a pto clutch on today so that the brush hog wont drive the wheels forward and now it is far enough back where the shaft doesnt seem like it will hit the frame. I am just borrowing the cart for a test drive so I dont want to start to modify it until I have bought it. So far it works for spinning the brushhog when I pull it by hand but it will definately be a tough pull through anything thick. Once the heat breaks a little I will give it a real test drive with the horses.

Anyone else have any modifications that they have made to the I and J carts that work well?

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