The Shopping List
The Shopping List
This is a manure tank wagon designed to haul and distribute liquid manure. The design and construction were so strong that I couldn’t help but see it in my mind’s eye modified for use to haul water.

The Shopping List

Horse Progress Days 2013

by Lynn R. Miller of Singing Horse Ranch

Ryan Foxley and I were able to attend this year’s Horse Progress Days due to the financial assistance of the Sage Foundation. Though our assignment there was to assist in the production of a possible television show for South Sudan, we couldn’t help but take the opportunity to gather information on all of the equipment on display. Yes, this event is about showcasing new innovations in animal power but it is also a place to show-case ingenuity, inventiveness, plus tools, parts and pieces. From my many visits to this stellar annual event I have long known that folks travel here specifically to shop for equipment. So I thought to gather some pictures and info from that perspective. If I had the money and were shopping, what items would I want to put on my shopping list? I found some I needed, some I wanted, some I felt drawn to and a few without justification. On these two pages I share a portion of that with you.

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This trailer cart featured an ingenious sliding frame that had the rear axle moving forward with the dumping action. Set with shafts it could easily be pulled by lighter power vehicles. Capacity was generous, being about 6 feet long in the box.
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It took Ryan and I a while to figure out this beauty. It is ground-drive powered and especially-designed to lift and roll up old plastic planting bed covers. Worked slick.
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There were at least a couple of new design row cultivators featuring excellent visibility and a wide range of adjustments and attachments.
The Shopping List
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This broadcast spreader/seeder was handsomely built onto and into a #9 mower. Hopefully these photos will show you the level of sophistication that went into establishing a chaindrive system.
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This wheelbarrow featured two trail wheels in back and a small gas engine in the front. A control bar put the drive system in gear. It had a larger than usual tub and appeared to be something an older gardener, like myself, could use to advantage in a market garden application.
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The concept of combination roller and spring-tooth harrow implements have caught on and several companies are making their own variations on the design from larger field width applications to single horse small field use.
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One of the several displays of new mower parts, this one from Mullet.
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And this handy cast iron chain anvil.