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boom chain maybe, sounds like a good guess to me. sure would like to know. thanks, tim.

mitch

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thanks guys. they made a great tool unloading at the mill. the local mill let you unload sometimes into the flume. a pulp hook might stick in a big stick and pull you over if you didn’t let loose. always wondered whatever happened to those hooks. the wood was ground between stones. a pick let go pretty easy, and like you said made it easy to draw off the top of the pile.

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anyone ever try using a pickaroon? judging by the number in our toolshed, some one in our family liked them, and i gave them a try more than once out of somesort of family loyalty, but i’ve discovered that a pulp hook is my first choice. wondering what you thought.

mitch

[mitchmaine]

my problem with elections is polling. besides the debates where candidates make promises they can’t keep, like creating jobs and lowering taxes, and the only jobs they actually can create are more beaurocracys making more regulation requiring more tax base to fund, they show endless results of current polls meant to sway voter opinion from one candidate to another, then on voting day they post results with 15 percent showing, and call the election before its over. sometimes before i’ve even voted (i go over after work). i doesn’t seem responsible to me. if they are going to try and manipulate us, at least have the decency to hide it a little.

[mitchmaine]

hey marshall, get their clamp too. cheap and simple and fits any beam i would imagine.

[mitchmaine]

@Rod 21816 wrote:

I have this idea which I am going to experiment with. Basically its using a boat trailer winch (which I have) to add leverage to the friction brake system. And I am going to try some pieces of rubber tire tread bolted to my brake shoes to increase friction against the trailer tires.
The plan is to mount the winch on the side of the seat where I can move the lever with my right hand. The brakes are moved against the tire now with a cable and lever setup. By using the winch I will have a ratchet lock in either direction and a free travel position. Because it will have a much better mechanical advantage than the existing pedal setup I should be able to really put some good pressure on the brake pads. The way I envision it the brake pedal which I now use can still be functional but the winch will provide an override for those steep hills and heavier loads. I will let you know how it works out.

hey rod, i like your idea. about the brake pads though, i thought i might add that the coefficient of friction with rubber to rubber is emense. i tried it once on a cart and if you were stopped no way could those wheels spin. but if you had a little speed up, and not much, when you touched the brakes it tore every thing to peices. it was just a t-bar running under the wagon frame coming up against the front of the wheels made of 1″ square tubing in a little frame. probably underbuilt. anyway, that was my experience, take it for what its worth. don’t give up as easy as i did and good luck with your project. mitch

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@Marshall 21792 wrote:

I knew there was a reason I like Mr. Oliver. I am probably in the same boat. If I ever have to get parts I don’t think I will find much.

if you try to match a point with an existing moldboard, we are probably out of luck (except there are some plow shops in ohio with mountains of points).
but i always wondered if you stripped it right down to the beam and frog or maybe even just the beam, if you couldn’t start fresh, like pioneer does, and try and mount modern gear on an old beam with a little drilling or welding or whatever it took. be fun to try sometime.

mitch

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hey geoff, glad you are safe and sound back in your own neck in the woods. england is really great, isn’t it? hardly a day goes by but i don’t remember something that happened while i was over there. anyway, i am very glad we got a chance to meet up and chat so talk to you later.

mitch

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don’t know that plow at all, john, but on a two way plow the pole hooks between the points a few inches to the land from the point thats being used. and the evener shifts to the plow that is being used and the pole tip and yoke are shifted in front of the same plow, so that makes me think your pole wants to be right in front of the beam as well as the hitch point. does that make sense? because it can come right hand or left and set for two or three horses there must be a range of adjustment for your pole strap that is hard to see in the pictures. also you should have verticle adjustment on your bracket for adjusting the depth of plowing. there is a place where your plow wants to float in the ground and has the least resistance on your horses and the wheels can get in the way of finding that place. i found it once and my horses could have plowed forever on ground they would tire in a dozen passes with the same plow. problem is you really have to keep adjusting and tuning forever with any plow in different soils, moisture, and so on. if you get close, the adjustments are not that severe.

mitch

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hi john, what a beauty! love you new plow. if its anything like their walking plow, and it seems just like it with wheels, same bottom, beam, and bracket, then dead center on the beam (2nd or 3rd hole in from left looking at plow in your picture) for two, and next to last hole for three. thats how their walking plow worked best for me. i heard or read once that most adjustments on older farm machinery starts in the middle and you work your way in or out and up or down. thats how it seems to work best on two way sulkys. go plow something and show us how its going. best o’ luck, mitch

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hey gulo,
i wasn’t talking about competeing with skidders. just the opposite. i was talking about the reality of being caught in “big” farming or logging where production and volume are the game, and big checks usually go to the banks and mortgage holders and your left with a weeks pay same size as the horse farmer and ten years later when your equipment is finally paid for you are the proud owner of a bunch of rusted, beat up machinery no one wants to buy.

[mitchmaine]

hi john, i was commiserating with a fellow logger working alone roadside, wondering what the local loggers thought of his half load of logs piled roadside for the day. and all i could think putting myself in their shoes, cause i was there once, was that they might be thinking “man, wouldn’t it be great working a horse in the woods.” but being strapped to $1,000,000. worth of equipment and payments, have to make some remark about size and money to support what they do, even if they secretly wish their life was a whole lot simpler. what do you bet?????????

mitch

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i had a nice doe in my scope last night, richard. but it was to dark to make her out. i knew what she was alright, but i let her go and probably wont ever see her again this fall. saw her track this morning and it was her alright. tough one.

mitch

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i think i’d leave the differential alone. it would come in handy and be more of an asset. on good dry ground it wouldn’t slip that much.
the belt clutch with an idler arm would work good and still be cheap.
the drive shaft going in turns clockwise just like the engine. an output shaft or pto needs to turn counterclockwise. by hooking the pole aft and pulling it like you were backing up, the driveshaft yoke would turn in reverse (counter cw) and be turning the correct way?????????????????
the chuck is a 3:1ish reduction gear so you might have to speed it up also so you probably can’t get away without a sprocket or two. but it still sounds like a good idea.

[mitchmaine]

right you are. here in maine, dept. of inland fisheries stopped issueing permits, and just let you pop ’em for crop damage. give the warden a call after and he might come by or not. if you have to many they might suggest donating meat to the food kitchens.
i like the chase myself. i used to dust them off and scare them a little, until our border collie figured out what i was trying to do and took over for me. he is a little shot of greased lightning and runs for thepure joy of it, and you ought to see him with crows. a pure delight.

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