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Saw one in RH in their HPD issue. A New 4 with liquid side-dresser. Pretty dang nice rig!
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Holy Christmas! 400 to shoe one horse?!?! My guy does fronts only for 15/head. And thats only if I’m too lazy to shoe ’em. Going rate around here is 20 fronts only. Thats any size horse. I believe if I had to pay what ya’ll do I’d pass out. Wow..
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Thanks a bunch guys! Shes got her a whole new project!
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Put the back wheel off a bushhog on mine. Works real fine, and nothing inside to break. Highway- where did you get the fly bonnets? My wife knits/crochets and wanted to make some but we couldn’t find a pattern
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Depends on how much room you have at the end of the field to turn in. Less room to turn the 4-wide than 2/2 I’d think. If that isn’t an issue, which one are you more comfortable driving? I drove a 4 up and hated trying to turn’em around. I like no more than 3 on the plow, but for a gang you’re gonna need 2 more than you’ve got, at least. Man might consider just using 4 on a 16″ sulky rather than a gang. In the long run you can get more ground turned out. Also, what size plow are you using?

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Pigeon wings are for mules. Rounds or square for horses. I personally use rounded ones on my team. Square looks too odd to me.

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You’re not all that far from me then! I live about 100 miles NW of you, in Mt. Pleasant. Welcome to a fellow Arkansan, and congratulations on finding a good jack. I highly recommend you put a singletree on your cart, it puts less strain, to my thinking, on your poles. Please feel free to ask any other questions!
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J-L
I guess its all in what you’re used to. I like using what I use because thats what I like, and what I’m used to. And I just think it’s easier to throw up on them than heavy wagon harness. Like I say, thats just my preference. I will agree that the #6 is the better machine, hands down.
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Boys, I often wondered why the old man that I got that machine from did that to it. Maybe he never thought it’d need to break, who knows. If I ever get to that better place I’ll ask him for you. 😉 My gear cover is like on your Big 6 John, and I’ve often thought of adding flanges to it, but like the boss-lady told me – “If it ain’t broke, don’t you touch it or it will be!” I’m afraid I don’t quite understand what you mean about the poles in the opposite notch? I did know that you can move them over to the center, or have them offset. Fill me in here if you don’t care.
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Geoff –
Pea gravel’s the only thing I can figure, unless maybe the wheel pitched up something into it or it was already cracked to begin with and I didn’t see it. I had to take it across the drive way to get to the hay field so maybe that was it? My pitman wouldn’t have busted because it was a piece of iron pipe with the fittings welded to it. Lets just say that didn’t get put on the new one. Lesson learned.

John –
I guess I lied, I did use breeching, once here in the picture in the gallery. I usually don’t though. Too much work to get on when you’re in a hurry to get to work. We’ve got some jim-dandy hills here too. The catch on my rig is, I put a modified pole strap on, pretty much just a loop of leather that I slide the belly band thru and then snap to my breast chain. No further than I go up or down hill to the hayfield, it really don’t matter. It rubs them some, but not enough to take the hide off. Have to use breeching on the rake, its an 8′ IHC that I put shaves in, so I have to have something to snap my holdback chains into.

Great discussion guys! Hope everyone had a good thanksgiving!
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I just was thinking… I don’t believe I’ve ever used a mower with my team with a set of breeching on. Hames and chains and backbands and thats about all. If you’re tongue’s mounted right, then your mower should be balanced enough to take the weight off their necks. I’d be interested to hear about what the rest of you do as far as harnessing to mowers and rakes, and also about your routines in the field. I oil everything on the mower twice a day, and the drive shaft and flywheel oil cups every hour and a half or so.
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Oh yea… mine does hum like a sewing machine Jay!

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@near horse 30290 wrote:

BTW- I have a Big 6 that blew the main gear as well

Geoff, I think my got something bound up between the main gear and the smaller drive gear, like pea gravel maybe, and thats what caused it to bust. I never could find another #6 so I used a Case for about two or three years and then a gentleman here town gave me the #6 you see here. I almost made a one horse mower out of it but decided against the idea. I still believe I can out-cut anybody with a #9 any day of the week, and I have outdone 7’s before. I’d like to ask, do either of you use the crazy wheel on your mowers? I personally do not, mainly because I refuse to give $125 or higher for it and I cant take cutting that good tongue in half!
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John –
I’ve on to my second open-geared #6 IH in 13 years. You can see where I’ve posted on here about it. I really like mine, its easier to work on for me and my limited mechanical facilties. The first one I had was extremely old and one day the main gear blew apart, so I pushed it off back in the fence row and a friend gave me another one that I’ve used thru one hay season with great sucess. I had a chance to use a neighbor’s 7 and 9, and have decided that I just like the way mine runs better, and I think it cuts better myself. I would like to have rubber on mine, but I guess I can do without. I’ll say this for my closing thought: all mowers are good mowers if they’re set properly, the sections sharp, and they’re well taken care of.
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PS – You can see a picture of me using it in the gallery. Its a sure-fine machine!

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Thanks! You can make a heckuva lot of adjusments on it.
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What, nobody has an opinion? Wow… thats a first! 😀

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