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wild millersResponding to a question Daniel had asked a few posts up in regard to the adjustable axle forcart. I believe the cart your referencing might be the White Horse Machine cart? In which case you could say it is the axle that adjusts but more to the point would be that the deck and draw bar adjust in relation to the axle. Chuck has both that cart as well as the I&J ground drive cart.
I would just throw this out there because it might not be immediately obvious unless you were in the situation to utilize this feature. Chuck uses this adjustment more to alleviate tongue lift rather than offset tongue weight and I believe that was the intent of the extra engineering. The picture attached shows a setup that Chuck has used often when all the other hay wagons and trailers are full. As you can see this arrangement puts a lot of weight on the forcart draw bar. (The weight of the manure spreader forward of it’s axle plus the weight of all the hay bales forward of the axle as well.) By adjusting the drawbar closer to the axle it eliminates the extreme amount of lift that would be generated in the situation. The hydraulic brake feature on that cart really helps in this hitch setup when the animals are holding the load back while going down a hill. After the cart is unhitched from the heavy drawbar load, the adjustment is cranked back to take that extra weight off of the tongue to ease hitching and unhitching.
Kind of a neat feature, but we only ever really utilized it in this scenario. I can’t remember the whole apparatus well enough at this point to imagine if it could be a design feature that could possibly be worked into a logging arch or not. Hope that helps.