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Thank you for the link. Ben and his shop remind me of my grandfather.

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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

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Seems that all I have to do is walk out doors with my rifle and they just disappear, at least during hunting season. :confused: Richard

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@mitchmaine 18461 wrote:

john, maine would be just fine if it wasn’t for that danged ocean! people drive up, fall in love with the place and decide to retire up here someday, so in the meantime , buy the biggest best peice of farmland and out of some sense of guilt, decide to grow christmas trees or something. they’re all for perserving the open space, until you show up with a truckload of hen manure. “this can’t be farming” “no one i know would put THAT on their land” “it has to be toxic”. i could go on for hours, but i think i made my point. unfortunately, an investment is rated in dollars and cents, and no one can quite decide when they have “enough” so they keep doing what they do well (make money) and land is a keen way so they eat it up and spit it out like tap water. i wish land here was as spare as it is in scotland, maybe someone would value it more and use it the way it was intended. i love to rant. i think i will go on for hours. i heading off to rant some more. best wishes, mitch

This is so true, I grew up and live on the coast of Maine. Because of “people from away” buying up all the land, not just the little bit of good farm land it has driven the price way out of reach for most young working families. Now don’t get me wrong, I understand that these same people from away provide income to many, including myself and 2 of my brothers as we are all carpenters. So I don’t know what the answer is, but it kills me to go to work every day remodeling/adding on/or tearing down the old Maine farms and seeing all the fields left to grass so the new owner can mow it once a week on his new $45,000 John Deere. Well I guess I have gone on long enough ranting(maybe ranting is a Maine thing)

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Try this link minprom
Look on your browser toolbar under “page” Windows has a translater.

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I don’t know anyting about it. Here is the link to the site minprom
Sorry if you all have see this already, but just in case you havn’t I thought I would share it.
Richard

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Jim & Mitch, it sure is nice to find some local guys who use there horses for work and not just play. If you guys ever need an extra hand with something, and don’t mind having a greenhorn on site, let me know, I would like to learn more.
Thanks Richard

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Mitch, South Bristol.

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@Jim Ostergard 17990 wrote:

Welcome Richard,
I live and log with horses here in the mid-coast area. Mitch and I know each other so you have some resources close by. Mitch cut his teeth with horse-logging way-back, well not so way back but when we all cut a lot of four foot wood. Great resource. I was mostly skidder or tractor mounted in those days so am glad to be out of it and using horses.
Just got an email this morning asking if I wanted a Halflinger stallion but not really something for me at this point. Would like to try the ponies in the woods but got my hands full with y big guys.
Let us know where you are and maybe out paths will cross. if you sign up for the MOFGA Low Impact workshop you will meet a bunch of us.
Jim

Jim, I live in a small town just out side of Damariscotta, not to far from you. So Your a full time horse logger? If you get a chance could you send me info on the low impact workshop? Thanks Richard

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My team is 58″ and around 1000#. On most things I use 28″ single trees and a 40″ evener and that seems to work well.
Here is just a quick thought on what I was thinking for a pole offset PIC
Also another Question, can someone tell me about side draft and the rod that goes from the heel of the bar to the point of hitch. How might this work with the offset pole?

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Thanks for all the help so far. I have thought about selling this, but it is in really good shape and it was also a gift from a nice older gentleman who really wants to see it cleaned up and used, but on the other side I want a machine I can use with my team. What I am thinking right now is an off set pole fabricated out of steel, it would be offset about 18”+/-. So here is more questions, with this offset will the mower still handle and function as it should? Has anyone here done somthing like this before? If need be do you think I could heat and straighten the timing bar? What are others using for paint on these mowers? Again thank you, and I’m sure I’ll have other question, I hope you all don’t mind.
Richard

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The cover only says “McCormick Deering.” If you loof a this PIC you can see how close the pole will sit to the bar, Is this the same on #9’s?

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Oldkat,
It has the four foot bar and looks just like the drawings in SFJ of the one horse. When I picked it up ther wasn’t a pole or shafts as it had been last used 30 years ago behind a tractor. So I’m not 100% sure, but pretty close that it’s a one horse, maybe others can chime in and answer this and other questions.
Richard

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Not sure how to add pics yet, but here are the links.
PIC1
PIC2
It has a 4′ bar.
I would also like any other info on refurbishing these mowers.
Thanks
Richard

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[IMG]http://www.draftanimalpower.com/photoplog/index.php?n=425[/IMG]

[IMG]http://www.draftanimalpower.com/photoplog/index.php?n=425[/IMG]
Front and overall views.
This mower has a 4 foot bar.

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