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Banana Bar

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Arable Farmer
Location
Bury St Edmunds
Also another very good use for harr'ers is to accidentally leave them upside down In a gateway or track to stop people who shouldn't be there driving about or atleast they dont drive far after theyve been over the harr'ers.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Death trap, if a child strays with their pony onto them you’ll have a heap of conscience to deal with.
Sounds a good idea, in reality far from it.

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Hindsight

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Location
Lincolnshire
Also another very good use for harr'ers is to accidentally leave them upside down In a gateway or track to stop people who shouldn't be there driving about or atleast they dont drive far after theyve been over the harr'ers.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thats ok until you forget and you or worse someone else walks through a gateway mid summer once the vegetation has grown up!

Can be very dangerous - as I have found out.

So while I appreciate it is popular advice to farmers who are pestered with hare coursers, I just comment that innocent folk can be caught out. In my case I tripped fell forward over the 'arras and landed on a couple of the points with my legs which fortunately did not puncture the leg, and again very fortunately my torso, chest and head was clear of the 'arras upturned points . Once I recovered from the shock I hobbled back to the car. But it could have been far, far worse.

So please think forward if considering this courser deterrent.
 

Wigeon

Member
Arable Farmer
Well I had a rummage and found this:

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Look, it's even got a grease nipple :D

Isobus too by the look of it.
 

yellowbelly

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Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
Is a whippletree the same, or different, to a swingletree?

Dad used to call the bar a swingletree but we didn’t have wheels on the ends of ours.
I guess, like most things agricultural, it depends on where you are from.
In Lincolnshire, the thing that the 'arras hook on to, is called a baulk or sometimes a stretcher.
Round here a whippletree or a swingletree or a heeltree is the wooden bar that the trace chains of a horse's harness hook on to (to stop them catching their back legs)...
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..................................................................................heeltree^.......^baulk................................

Baulks came in different lengths - for ploughing, tatie rows and beet rows (so the 'osses walked between the rows, Sort of early variable track width :))
They also came with an offset pulling point so you could use a cob (smaller horse) in a pair with a Shire - the cob had the longest pulling point so that the bigger horse was doing more of the work.
 

Still Farming

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Mixed Farmer
Location
South Wales UK

Still Farming

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
South Wales UK
I guess, like most things agricultural, it depends on where you are from.
In Lincolnshire, the thing that the 'arras hook on to, is called a baulk or sometimes a stretcher.
Round here a whippletree or a swingletree or a heeltree is the wooden bar that the trace chains of a horse's harness hook on to (to stop them catching their back legs)...
View attachment 914443 .............View attachment 914446
..................................................................................heeltree^.......^baulk................................

Baulks came in different lengths - for ploughing, tatie rows and beet rows (so the 'osses walked between the rows, Sort of early variable track width :))
They also came with an offset pulling point so you could use a cob (smaller horse) in a pair with a Shire - the cob had the longest pulling point so that the bigger horse was doing more of the work.
Spreader or camron also called here!
 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
I guess, like most things agricultural, it depends on where you are from.
In Lincolnshire, the thing that the 'arras hook on to, is called a baulk or sometimes a stretcher.
Round here a whippletree or a swingletree or a heeltree is the wooden bar that the trace chains of a horse's harness hook on to (to stop them catching their back legs)...
View attachment 914443 .............View attachment 914446
..................................................................................heeltree^.......^baulk................................

Baulks came in different lengths - for ploughing, tatie rows and beet rows (so the 'osses walked between the rows, Sort of early variable track width :))
They also came with an offset pulling point so you could use a cob (smaller horse) in a pair with a Shire - the cob had the longest pulling point so that the bigger horse was doing more of the work.
We call it a draft. One without wheels anyway.... that would be for wider sets or deluxe model s :ROFLMAO:

Anyone else add a sleeper or sleepers to help weight them down? An old rope or strands of baler threaded through the sleeper bolt holes and under a harrow section bar then tied loosely to allow for movement in work without breaking it, on the furrow gave the rope a bit of a testing :sneaky:

To move fields The whole set was pulled sideways by taking the chain out of the draft and attaching it to an end section the drive very steady , :cautious:

3 point linkage Mounted ones had there advantages but not quite so effective as trailed ones imo
 
I remember when I was maybe 14-15, Dad set me off chain harrowing in a couple of fields about a mile drive from the farm.

He said if I finished in the light to drive steady back to the farm.

Steady? Half a chance to be King of the Road at that age on the mighty 165 saw me bombing up and down the fields like a mad man (crazy man for harrowing, lazy man for rolling)

I set off steady. A few hundred yards in and I thought it was all going well, time to select high Multi Power. Maybe a few more revs....

On the bend the whole set slid sideways with the main swing of it going over the wrong side of the road. Luckily nothing approaching. I must have had a smile a mile wide when I suddenly realised I would need to stop at the T junction.

Bugger. The tractor stopped, but the whole set of harrows stacked themselves up under the rear tyres. I had to get off and pull them back. As I did so, all the bits of turf fell off, leaving a nice little hump in the middle of the junction.

Happy Days.
 

GeorgeK

Member
Location
Leicestershire
So I had a little go today.

Dry humping as it were, no seed involved.

Anyway, apparently a modern cultipress on heavy ground followed by 6 inches of rain leaves it a bit tight for them to do much, I concluded.

Excellent for collecting hedge mustard though I found.

Hunt for the triple k is now on...
At least you're checking if it's working. Many prefer not to waste time getting out the cab to look at the job they're doing. Crack on and f up the whole field
 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
So what's with the obsession with drills?

Work ploughing over once with something to prevent seed going too deep then Broadcast and cover with a ph for good seed coverage and none of ' seed in wheel mark problem, just make sure the side cheeks are set well .and dontwork too deep.
If the headlands are a risk of going 'cabby ' ph the field all round (shock horror) tramlines are so yesterday ....
Works every time very cost effective way of establishing corn.....

...... no drill purchase required at all (y)
 

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