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01-07-2017, 11:45 PM
OK - no laughing now! This is a screen shot from a video we took yesterday. We don't have any photos of Koby hitched up. The shafts are made of electrical conduit so they are toughened plastic and very strong but with a small amount of flex. I might ask Mark to replace the rounded joins with square elbows at the back (near the singletree). This arrangement will only be used on our property.
As already mentioned, we needed to temporarily remove the britchen due to slippage; this was no big deal as we were only walking around the garden. We also extended the traces with nylon rope until I can sort something more permanent out.
The singletree has already been doctored in this photo, i.e. a few lengths of nylon rope placed between the u-bolt on the front of the wagon and the eyebolt on the singletree.
The shaft wraps have slid back to about where I think the footman loop might need to be attached for the holdback straps. Does this sound right? We didn't spend long wrapping the shaft wraps super tightly in case Koby went bonkers once hitched and we needed to undo it all in a hurry. Fortunately this wasn't necessary but you can see he's a bit nervous by his tail (or perhaps the shafts are putting too much pressure on his back?).
Is the angle of the shafts too steep? If so, what, if anything, can I do to rectify this? At the current angle I don't think the shaft loops and shaft wraps would stay aligned for very long unless they were buckled to, or somehow looped through, each other. The shaft loops are on the second last (lowest) hole.
As already mentioned, we needed to temporarily remove the britchen due to slippage; this was no big deal as we were only walking around the garden. We also extended the traces with nylon rope until I can sort something more permanent out.
The singletree has already been doctored in this photo, i.e. a few lengths of nylon rope placed between the u-bolt on the front of the wagon and the eyebolt on the singletree.
The shaft wraps have slid back to about where I think the footman loop might need to be attached for the holdback straps. Does this sound right? We didn't spend long wrapping the shaft wraps super tightly in case Koby went bonkers once hitched and we needed to undo it all in a hurry. Fortunately this wasn't necessary but you can see he's a bit nervous by his tail (or perhaps the shafts are putting too much pressure on his back?).
Is the angle of the shafts too steep? If so, what, if anything, can I do to rectify this? At the current angle I don't think the shaft loops and shaft wraps would stay aligned for very long unless they were buckled to, or somehow looped through, each other. The shaft loops are on the second last (lowest) hole.
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