Recent content by htlmales

Love the stuff I have a deep litter miscanthus bed - seems to be best after experiments. Its great if you don mind mucking out with a pair of gloves (quickest way) every now and then I go through it with a shavings fork and throw the dry against a wall and bin the wet - the elephant grass piles...

See if you can find a pair of harry dabbs with the curved buckle - fantastic english leather, webbing inside so non stretch, lots of adjustment - not cheap but they do me jumping, to dressage and you can add holes if you need to unlike dressage leathers. I have also ridden in shorts and they do...

Chaff is great Buy the best quality hay (and/or straw) you can get hold of put it through a chaff cutter add whatever you want and feed away - its cheap easy and good for your horse or buy chaff, pay over the odds for rubbish that is so unpalateble even to a horse that it has to be mixed with...

If anyone else wanted a restored machine I guess it would cost about £450 for a hand cranked machine, Im working on a conversion to electric at the moment. I would be happy to email pictures of mine in action just send a PM

I will happily email pictures of a restored and working machine just send PM. I guess the price would be in the region of £450 if you could find one for sale, that looked nice and worked.

That sounds great, - I imagine a petrol parrafin 2 stroke stationary engine with a 4" flat belt and abject horror on the face of a health and safty inspectors face! I have been looking for a litle cheap mixer or an old antique hand cranked mixer to restore. My chap is on a high oil diet to bulk...

"hell get it in the end or drop dead!" You said track - would he give up on a hill or burst? Sounds like you have covered all the bases, do you think the excitiment might be boiling him up on the gallops, we have just had a steep learning curve with a warmblood showing no signs of ulcers -...

Spade bit, ratchet strap noseband and really strong arms, barbed wire bit, run him into walls, jab him really hard in the mouth, only joking, but some of the people that advised me wernt! It occured to me that if getting firmer and firmer wont work then try somthing else - I tried Ken Faulkner...

[ QUOTE ] but if i were in your situation then I would buy new! [/ QUOTE ] If I explain the logistics of a new machine... Paying the minimum $300 for a machine from India that then has to pass CE approval (import of farm machinery) and has no chance (HSE nightmare - very good finger/arm...

I had a "poor doer" - always looked good but a bit thin, with the right food he would cover up and shine like a new penny, any excercise at all and you could see the weight come off him but no signs of anything untoward. I finally pushed my vet to get to the bottom of it and we did a few tests...

Is there a need? Please take a few seconds to help. I had a problem feeding my 18hh Warmblood, so had to purchase a chaff cutter. They either come 1 - New and shiny from India or 2 - Very old and tired from farm sales, ebay etc. Both supply routes have drawbacks 1 - H&S, import, VAT etc...

Hello to all on the DIY chaff journey I needed to make my own Chaff (18hh warmblood with ulcers - bit too lively on commercial sugary, carb loaded, sweepings mix soo the choice was good quality hay and a chaff cutter) I was going to start importing from India but the machines end up pretty...