[Rod]

Hi Donn

I found a rough plan on the web which I refined and had a friend weld it up for me. You can find more photos under this thread. http://www.draftanimalpower.com/showthread.php?t=869 If you want a plan, send me your mailing address and I will send you one.

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I think some people are Ox people and others more inclined to the horses. I am still trying to figure out what I am.:confused:

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Here is how I have just learned to do it. Go QR, advanced, manage attachments, and then browse to find your file then upload. Works slick, you get a thumbnail which can be exploded to a bigger photo.

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This has design possibilities for an adjustable yoke. With a modification to the upper width of the bow part, a series of holes for width adjustment, would alllow the yoke to be adjusted as the steer grew. The same design should be adaptable to a double yoke.

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Hi Richard

Ihave a parts book for the no.7 and it gives the main wheel roller bearings as follows.

Left Cat. no. M22731
right and center M22734

I could photo copy and send you this if you give me your mailing address. I got it from McNairs.

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Thanks for posting that Donn. It works a lot easier than the roundabout way I was doing it before.

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Do you folks use a ‘stand’ command apart from the ‘whoa’ or does the ‘whoa’ mean stand until released?

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Rod, I am closing the curtains!! Donn

Coincidence, I can’t see that far.

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Try B.W. Macknair & Sons in Lewistown PA 717-543-5136. They are very likely to have any part you need for that mower. I have the same machine and have had good luck getting what I need there.

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I am wondering about the details now. How much corn, how many pigs, or piglets do I need etc. Anybody want to order some organic manure fed pork for next fall?:)

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This thread has me thinking. I have a 36′ square manure pit with a concrete floor. It’s attached to my winter feed lots and I stack the manure in it as I am able to clean the pens out. It takes all summer to breakdown the waste hay in the waste sufficient to spread with my spreader but not as much as I would like it to be broken down. I turn it periodically through the summer but it doesn’t work that great because the pit is usually too full to get everything remixed. (not enough space). Joel Salatin (Polyface farm) has a neat setup wherein he mixes corn into his cow bedding over the winter feeding period and then puts in hogs in the spring. The hogs turn the pile into compost as they root out the grain.
That’s what I think I will try this year. As I clean my cow pens and stack the manure I will put in corn in the same manner and then raise out some pigs in that area over the summer and let them facilitate the composting process.

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Some time ago we bought a small herd of Dexter cows which included a cow family with a young bull calf, his mother, the mother’s mother (grandmother) and her mother (great grandmother). One day we moved the herd from a pasture down our driveway to new grass near our barn. The cows all ran to the new site but in the process the little calf got left behind at the old pasture. Shortly after the cows group began grazing the new grass the calf discovered he was left alone and started to bellow. Hearing him the whole family of this calf including the mother, grandmother and great grandmother took off at a run back to where the calf was, rounded him up and then ran back to the new pasture where the other unrelated cows were grazing. The amazing thing was that only the family members and all of them at that went back for the calf while the other unrelated cows paid no attention.

A few years later I sold the calves mother to someone and it broke my heart to see that grandmother cow bellow and run the fence lines as her daughter was loaded and driven off the farm. Later I sold the grandmother also who was still a fairly young cow. I was researching some pedigrees sometime later I noticed the notation deceased for the grandmother cow. I wondered if she died of a broken heart.

This is a great thread and really makes one think about the obligations we have when we undertake to establish relationships with our animals.

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Terrific, thanks.

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What a neat concept, use the animal to store power in the lifted weight.

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Carl

My limited experience agrees with what you wrote. I enjoy having friends admire my well trained team and taking them for rides around the farm but feel much more in sinc. with them when the horses are doing useful work. I know it’s not the same for everyone and some really enjoy pleasure driving and all that does into it but for me I like to see my boys put their shoulders into the harnesses and accomplish something with all their strength. I think they like it better also.

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