Jennifer from Joyce WA USA
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Hud <stevehud58@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Joan,
> The poem is a real good try! But Pancho is pronounced with an O (Poncho),
> so it doesn't really rhyme with "ranch-o" :^) Cisco & Pancho were two old
> western movie hero's. Pancho was short guy and built like a brick.
>
> The cart, my neighbor and I just built. Not sure if I've rattled on about
> it here or not. But it's made out of all scrap material. An old pickup truck
> axle, truck lumber rack, old plumbing pipe, steel saftey cage, and a bit of
> rerod. The two round handles on the front guard are cut from coil springs
> from a Toyota car, and the seat is from a Dodge minivan. The long "dog whip"
> is an old fishing rod with some cord added to the end of it.
>
> This forecart is what I'm going to use to pull a camper trailer. The ball
> hitch is dead center to the wheel axis so the trailer can't over or under
> run the cart.
>
> To pull the cart and cammper I plan on using three Haflingers in a modified
> unicorn style on a special tongue with shafts on the front end. The unicorn
> hitch will be narrower than 3 abreast, and the center horse won't overheat
> in the summer time. It will use a narrow three horse evener with a cable to
> the front horse's single tree. When the camper is hooked up it will be solid
> up and down to the forecart. The tongue, then, won't be solid to the cart,
> as it is when the cart is used alone.
>
> The camper is my next project. I was going to use a pickup camper but I may
> end up making the whole camper. I'm also making a small hay wagon to hook up
> to the forecart. Thats almost done.
>
> The shafts come off and can be replaced with a tongue. The shafts have a
> high single tree for use with a breast collar, and there is also a low
> single tree in the line of draft with the axle for use with a draft collar.
> The tongue will have it's own double tree.
>
> I'm kind of a scrounger. The saddle chime on the harness is a twisted wire
> Christmas tree top ornament (star) with a jingle bell in the center a couple
> bells added to each side of it.
>
> Steve
> http://fixabrokehorse.com
>
>
> "jrd0901" <dieter@...> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the nice Christmas card you have posted in the photo section!
> > That is one very sturdy looking cart you have! Nice sturdy Haflie too!
> >
> > It is nice to see all the Christmas decorated horses, thanks to all that
> have posted....gives me some Holiday Cheer!
> >
> > (There must be a limerick to be made here....ever since reading those
> great ones, I find myself thinking in first-line limerick-ese:
> >
> > " There once was a Haflie named Pancho
> > Whose owner ran a training ranch-o. "
> > ........ (anyone want the next line??)
> >
> > --Joan in NH, a bit of snow on ground
> > but a strong storm coming tomoroow!
> >
>
>
>
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