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What did you guys use for shoe bolts? Our local specialized bolt store has allen wrench flat head bolts that work great but they don’t make anything longer than 3 inches. If I grind a taper on some hex bolts, won’t they just spin when I try to tighten them? Thanks for your help.

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on a single bob sled, what width should the runners be apart and how long are the cross beam and bunk? finally getting to rebuilding mine, i have all the ash milled out except for the tongue- what are the dimensions of that? I was looking for the dimensions but couldn’t seem to find them anywhere. Thanks alot.

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I had a great time too. Thanks to Mitch for letting me ground skid with that team of mares and it was just nice to spend time with an expert teamster. And thanks to Carl for letting me follow him around for the rest of the time. I am going to start rebuilding a bob sled this weekend. Thanks to Scott for the presentation on Forestry in Colorado. And the cooks!!!!!!!!!!

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Hey Jim, is there going to be a log scoot built at LIF this year. I thought I saw that on the website or somewhere. I’m looking forward to the workshop.

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Mine tend to do that a little when they are not pulling a load, but as soon as they are hitched to something they pull together and I think I’ve heard some old timers say that’s okay. But now that I say that, when I give the nigh steer more room and don’t crowd his head he steps up a little.
Do you guys know when using the traditional names Star and Bright, which one is the nigh and off?

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Hey Jordan, my friend Keith doesn’t have horses but he wants to get a team of steers this winter. He works at Jones Valley Farm. They have a CSA and do markets in Birmingham. He lived up here and worked with my horses some.

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Hey Jordan, just wondering where you are in Alabama, I am from Ozark but live in Massachussetts now, a buddy of mine runs a farm in Birmingham. Congratulations on your first team.

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Thanks for the suggestion Mark. Luckily at the hame end, this harness has the clip and rivets. I was a little nervous to cut them but it does look pretty easy. And Bill, you would have my business. Bradley

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I think that is what you call them. on D ring harness from hame to d ring. meader doesn’t have them and they said they will be getting to 25″ which is still too big. I guess from an ad that peach lane doesn’t do leather. thought maybe might have some used parts laying around.. Thanks, Bradley

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On Sunday we did this 4 ox hitch just for fun and got a little wood out too.

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Hey Bill, Wondering if the gelding has been sold yet and if not could you post a picture or two? How much are you asking? Thanks

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I just wanted to share this story because it was a powerful experience to work alongside my grandpa this summer when he came up to visit for a week. He and my grandma and two aunts drove his Cadillac Fleetwood up from Salisbury North Carolina just in time for that first good spell of hay weather. I am one generation removed from farming but we used to go visit the old homeplace at least once a year when I was growing up and I remember riding the tractors and combine with my Papaw. But when he came up and rode on the tractor with me (horses were out for a week due to leg injury) , it just brought it all home, and I imagined how nice it would have been to have grown up on the farm with him and worked with him. Then after I had made my first windrow and proceeded my usual way, he waved me down and showed me his technique for raking that his father showed him. And boy do I miss him now.

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3 day old Holstein calves, picked up from dairy, 80 bucks each

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