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Cheeto is much more mobile on his broken foot. He is able to get on couches, jump 4 feet or so, climb trees respectably well. I let him in the small yard under very tight supervision, but he tries to escape by jumping the 4 foot gate or climbing the tree next to the fence. He has also learned to lurk by doors. I don't know if we can keep him like this another 7 weeks.
Yesterday between rain storms, someone brought the disk harrow, Mark had bought, and this Minneapolis Moline Rake/Tedder. It never looked like it had seen a grease gun in years, the balls in all of the grease zerks were rusted in place but we were able to break them open, there must be 30 or more of them on the thing. We put a couple springs in place of some bailing wire on one lever so we could adjust it. Scraped off some hardened grease around the gears, so we could adjust the gears into forward or reverse, as we wanted it to go. We then started to pull it around to see how it would work, making adjustments as we needed to. It will be handy to stir the hay next year to help it dry better. This year I tried raking the hay into small windrows after 1 day to try and help it to dry but even in a small windrow it is still too thick to dry very well.
I'm going to have a serious range of adjustment for rake. from negative rake to like 90mm or so. If it's ever useful, it will probably be when I'm trying to use part of the jig as a chainstay mitering fixture someday with a different dummy axle.
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Horse hay-rakes gather the hay preparatory to its removal from the meadows. It is arranged with a sulky, so that the operator can ride. The spring-teeth gather the hay and retain it until the driver, by pulling the vertical lever, lifts the teeth and discharges it. The horizontal bars projecting through the teeth keep the hay from rising with them, thus insuring its complete discharge. The invention of a horse drawn rake in the 1800's made the process of collecting hay much more efficient. The horse drawn rake could collect eight times a much as one hand raker. This efficiency lead to a larger quantity of feed for cattle. The invention of a horse drawn rake in the 1800's made the process of collecting hay much more efficient. The horse drawn rake could collect eight times a much as one hand raker. This efficiency lead to a larger quantity of feed for cattle.
Blydenburgh County Park – Smithtown Long Island NY.