And now for a "Woods Rake"

[gclark94560]

Hi All!

I have been doing a lot of reclaiming land from the forest recently. I have 14 acres and am building a new house on it.

Part of the process is cutting down unwanted trees and grubbing small trees. This has left a lot of big sticks and branches lying around. I got real tired of trying to manually pick these up and load them into a FEL.

After looking at TBN's BIY section I decided a rake was in order. I was afraid that the spring finger tine type wouldn't put up with the branches wedged between trees etc. What I decided on was to use solid steel one inch rod as the dork tines and not use a lot of them to reduce dirt dragging.







This is where I started testing the design. If you look at the last picture, one of the center tines is bent. I hooked it on a big root. I then decided to beef up the tine support.

 

[gclark94560]

Here are some pix of me working with the rake.

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I will post a pix of the reinforcement of the tines later

Here is the result of an hour or so of testing.

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[gclark94560]

Anyone know why I sometimes get a picture in the message and sometimes I get a link??

I am using the same resolution for all pix but it seems to make no difference.



Greg

 

[gclark94560]

OK - I think I have figured out the picture problem - too big of file size on the pix.

Pictures of the rake at work -

 

[mars1952]

"Anyone know why I sometimes get a picture in the message and sometimes I get a link?? gclark94560"

Hi gclark94560:
It is as you guessed. You pictures are too large. Not too large of an image but too large of a file size. Save your pictures as .jpeg not .gif. Gifs are really big files compared to .jpeg (jpegs have better compression). Resize your pictures to 800 pixels wide that way they will fill the screen on most computers.

Now if some one could tell me how to make my pictures show up as a clickable thumbnail in my posts I would appreciate it.
Good Luck, Marshall

 

[gclark94560]

Hi!

Thanks for the info. I went to .gif as it would allow me to drop to 256 colors and shrink the file size. Paint Shop Pro would only save .jpg files in 16 million colors.

Nothing that color intensive in my Yanmar!


Greg

 

[mars1952]

Hi Greg:
Ironically you made your picture file size bigger when you switched to a 256 color gif instead of a 16 million color jpeg. Do a right mouse button click on your pictures as they appear in your post and you will see that the gifs are about 56KB to 64KB and the jpegs are about 27KB to 31KB. I guess that I am now unsure as to why your links are not working.
Here is one of the pictures that I have posted in this forum that is 169.8 KB
First as a link:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...ctures-jd-430-loader-needed-420-full-dump.jpg
Now as an insert:

Right click on it and see how big it is.
Both of these pictures were uploaded to TBN and linked to this post.
I still haven't figured out how to do clickable thumbnails.
Marshall

Hi!

Thanks for the info. I went to .gif as it would allow me to drop to 256 colors and shrink the file size. Paint Shop Pro would only save .jpg files in 16 million colors.

Nothing that color intensive in my Yanmar!


Greg

 

[gclark94560]

WOW!

So now I am TOTALLY corn-fused!

I guess it's just what the computer gods want today!!!!

I will just have to design something else to build so I can find out!

Or clean up and paint what I have and try to post pix of the final result.

Greg