Old Equipment

We are blessed to have lots of old horse drawn equpiment. We've purchased some and we inherited from Hubbys Grandfather, which I think is pretty cool. Hubby being a baby who was born to parents in their 40's has the privilege of having a father who remembers farming with horses as well as a Grandfather who had farmed with horses. A few weeks ago the tongue broke on the hay mower which we had been using for cutting green feed for the animals. So it was time to make a new one. We could have gone to the Mennonite sawmill up the road and had one made, but with money being what it is these days we needed to get creative. So we had some barn beams that had been taken out of an old barn. We took one of those and got started. First was cut to the right width.

                     Cut the right size now "shaving" it down so there are no rough edges

                                      Working the end so the neck yoke will fit on

       This was Hubbys Grandfathers neck yolk and I know it gives him great pride to use it.

                                                      Put back together

                                                    Back to work.