|
|
![](templates/downsizer2009/images/menu_margin.png) |
Author |
|
Message | ![](templates/downsizer2009/images/menu_margin.png) |
|
dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46340 Location: yes
|
|
|
|
![](templates/downsizer2009/images/spacer.gif) |
deanom
Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 93 Location: Lincolnshire
|
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 06 8:48 pm Post subject: Plastic |
|
Gil
My description of the bottle was not good. It's just the normal plastic container that supermarket milk comes in. Available from 1 pint up to 6.
If you can't find something suitable just take a little bucket/ container with you and leave it close by. The water is important, mainly because it helps to stop the particles of metal clogging up the stone. The blade will be sharper as a result.
You're right about trying to explain an action verbally. That's why I haven't published an article on the site yet. Thinking about doing a "why" article, rather than a "how to" one.
The peening jig is a really good way of starting. The price is not excessive. Downside is like most of the anvils sold over here, it needs mounting in a block of wood, which makes it less portable. Luckily, most of the time you don't need to peen where you are working. I have a field version which I found in a barn in France. I had seen one previously, and was gobsmacked to see one rusting in a barn. If you decide to ignore the jig, go for the narrow anvil, with a normal hammer. It's easier! Blade face down on the anvil, hammer the underneath. If you end up with the narrow hammer, and wider anvil, other way round. Wide, flat surface always against the bottom of the blade.
For anyone other than Gil reading this, please do not be put off. It's much easier to do than it might seem when you read this, and The Scythe Book explains it really well. |
|
|
|
![](templates/downsizer2009/images/spacer.gif) |
gil Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 18416
|
|
|
|
![](templates/downsizer2009/images/spacer.gif) |
deanom
Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 93 Location: Lincolnshire
|
|
|
|
![](templates/downsizer2009/images/spacer.gif) |
Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 25795 Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
|
|
|
|
![](templates/downsizer2009/images/spacer.gif) |
deanom
Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 93 Location: Lincolnshire
|
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 06 7:53 pm Post subject: Hay |
|
I didn't store this batch, as I don't have any animals yet. I gave it away to someone in my village.
I intend to store it in a rack, which I will have to build. I am planning on a simple frame, with a weldmesh floor, and removeable weld mesh panels for the sides. I have all of the bits here, I just need to sort it all out.
The wheat and barley is a thought for next year. I want some for bread and beer making, and for animal feed. For this I will need staddle stones, to sit the supporting beams on top of. I have no idea if anybody still makes any that would work.
Like everything else, so many things to do, and not enough time/money.
![](images/smiles/icon_sad.gif) |
|
|
|
![](templates/downsizer2009/images/spacer.gif) |
gil Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 18416
|
|
|
|
![](templates/downsizer2009/images/spacer.gif) |
deanom
Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 93 Location: Lincolnshire
|
|
|
|
![](templates/downsizer2009/images/spacer.gif) |
gil Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 18416
|
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 06 6:48 pm Post subject: |
|
Hay was raked and barrowed, and is at present spread out on sub-base floor of shed, so not properly stacked or owt. Will be good to get it shifted to my neighbour. I usually use it for kindling winter bonfires, not for feeding.
Difference from machine-made (though hard to tell as this year was such exceptionally good haymaking weather) is that the scythed hay seems lighter, crisper, more intact, neater [not chewed up, likewise the grass has recovered more quickly].
I ended up with both a peening jig and an anvil. Haven't tried either yet, as I'm in full swing of harvesting and processing fruit and veg, and also setting up a related business, so have not mown for three weeks or so. |
|
|
|
![](templates/downsizer2009/images/spacer.gif) |
deanom
Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 93 Location: Lincolnshire
|
|
|
|
![](templates/downsizer2009/images/spacer.gif) |
Sally Too
Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 2511 Location: N.Ireland
|
|
|
|
![](templates/downsizer2009/images/spacer.gif) |
deanom
Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 93 Location: Lincolnshire
|
|
|
|
![](templates/downsizer2009/images/spacer.gif) |
|
Archive
Powered by php-BB © 2001, 2005 php-BB Group Style by marsjupiter.com, released under GNU (GNU/GPL) license.
|