Crane for three point hitch. This is a collection of images of Home made farm equipment and other home made stuff! Many of the images here I have found all over the internet! If anyone find their own image here and disapprove of me showing it here, just send me a message and I will remove it/them images!
I learnt to make hay rakes this year, partly because of an order for 5 children sized hay rakes from the Great Glen Community Wildspace group in Leicester. I made the handles from ash and sallow, all in slightly different designs because there is more sallow than usable ash in the new wood. Some have forked branches which I thought would be naturally strong, they seemed to work fine. I used dried silver birch for the tines or teeth - bashing the roughed out dowels through a tine cutter of 11mm to make clean dowels. The tines are set in at approx 1.5" to 2" spacing across the green ash head and flats are put on the backs so the tines don't split. The handles are drilled into the head at a 70 degree angle to make a good rake, making sure you get this the right way up! Wedges hold the handle onto the head so it was solid. After doing a set of rakes the process became easier, but like most things not tried before there was some head scratching at first. All full test of the adult sized hay rakes proved they worked great. Martin spent many hours in the mornings mowing the rides with his scythe and the hay rakes did their job well.
2011 EU PRIZE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE / EUROPA NOSTRA AWARD Category 4 - Education, Training and Awareness-Raising “Dry-stone traditional constructions are a precious feature of the landscape in the Croatian coastal area. The Dragodid group of sensitive and daring citizens, developed initiatives and invested their time and energy to learn from the local people the traditional skills to preserve the modest, collapsing dry-stone buildings. In so doing, they returned the confidence to the local communities and offered them assistance in their efforts to preserve their seemingly modest and deprived heritage. The jury appreciated this grassroots action and hopes it will encourage similar small scale initiatives and contribute to active citizen participation in the preservation of cultural heritage.” Dry-stone masonry is an ancient architectural tradition in the Mediterranean, used for the construction without the use of mortar, of land fences, agricultural buildings and modest houses. It has left an extensive mark as a cultural element of the Croatian coastal landscape. Today, this skill and its techniques are rapidly being lost with the retirement of the last generation of masons that actively practiced this art. The 4 grada Dragodid project began with the recognition that dry-stone masonry techniques are a part of the region’s intangible heritage which is of immense and practical importance for future generations: they produce usable and aesthetic buildings from locally available materials and means. The project is an attempt at transferring knowledge and skills from the old masters to future generations of enthusiasts and heritage professionals, through setting up workshops, printed manuals and the dragodid.org website. It aims at re-establishing dry-stone as an efficient, aesthetic, humane and sustainable option for the construction of simple buildings and structures in the Mediterranean.
Nice, simple idea......I think I am going to give this one a shot. In the pictures, it looks like the 2x4's are cut in half at an angle. Is there a...
Milling fallen logs on site isn't always an option, so urban logger Matt Cremona created this DIY log lift trailer to haul lumber.
In depth article showing an easy method of cutting large amounts of logs at the same time! Safely and quickly with the simplest of tools.
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