Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #41,821  
Hoe your wife enjoys her birthday Roy. More cleaning of snow today 20 right now high of 36 later with sunshine abundant. Tracter needs another 6 gallons of fuel then off to work
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,822  
Need to get coffee started. 50° with mostly clear skies. Heading to 65° with lots of sun. Glad I am not in the east. The snow amounts may be more than my little B2910 can handle. Those who have snow to move be safe and warm. Not much planned today. Some Football later today.
Roy, Happy Birthday to your wife.
Good Morning All.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,823  
22 here, glad I let the kitchen faucet dribble over night, supposed to get up to 52. There were reports of snow falling around here yesterday... I was laughing. Talked with BIL up in NJ and he spent 3 hours blowing snow a couple of times yesterday just to keep up with it. Am glad to see all survived with this storm.

Happy B-day to your wife Roy, and WOW!!! 20,000 posts, Congratulations! Didn't realize you had that much to say. :thumbsup:

Went to the saw mill yesterday to get the lumber I need for the wagon seat, and might work on that today. Speaking of my wagon, is there anyone that knows 12 volt DC wiring? I have questions.

I did get a free roll of hay yesterday, saw one around the corner off the road, it was still there 6 hours later, so I took the trailer and tractor and picked it up. Saved me $50. I have to go buy 10 more rolls on Tuesday.

Stay safe everyone
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,824  
Good Morning! 46 F @ 5:30 AM. Showers this morning becoming less numerous during the afternoon hours. High 53F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 40%.

Kev, every time I buy something with 12V wiring off Craig's List I end up re-wiring it. Maybe I could help answer your questions?

Glad everyone seems to have survived Snowmageddon. Hopefully warmer temps in the coming week will melt most of it away...
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,825  
I must be very late looking in on TBN today as even RNG has beaten me to it and said good morning first. My excuse is that I had to take hay up to a neighbor. Their horses are now all confined to stables as they have been sinking too far into their wet muddy field.

Sounds like some of you did have "Epic" snow after all. Hope you enjoy the extra time spent by the fireside. I haven't yet lighted either of our wood burners today, it is an incredible 14C/57F outside.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,826  
Happy Birthday Mrs. Roy!

Saw where a couple of CoCoRaHS precip reporters posted 35 inches of snow near where your bother lives in NW Virginia, Drew.

Neighbor just plowed our driveway with his 95 hp cab Case tractor...huge heavy duty blade...saved me hours it would have taken with my 6 foot FEL bucket.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,827  
RNG, Thanks.

Problem 1) To pull a wagon (horse or vehicle) on the streets here in FL it has to have headlights, tail lights, flashers. This wagon also has elect. brakes. All of this is no problem by adding a battery to run it all, my question is I have a set of shafts for the horse to pull it, and those can be switched out for a tow bar for the truck or tractor to pull it (like taking it to a parade). How do I connect a RV 7 Pin trailer plug to it with out getting feed back to the stand alone battery. and make everything work.

Problem 2) Wanting a brake pedal for the brakes, will a 120V AC variable switch (sewing machine pedal) work on 12V DC? I know I can do it with a trailer brake controller and just use the manual switch, but that doesn't give me a pedal for my foot while my hands are full of reins.

Bet you want to recant your offer now, huh? :laughing:
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,828  
We have about 4" on the ground from last night's snow, we had 6" Friday night, then an inch of rain, so I have layers of frozen slush and 2-3' drifts from the wind. My cab is there, but my enclosure is still all in my head! Our son lives near Drew's brother and they have around 30" last count I had.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,829  
3 this morning and headed to 37 today. Currently 24. Should be good for the melt and the creation of mud. Almost 60 forecast for next weekend. What a roller coaster.

Back to the chicken coops today. Just trying to let it get closer to freezing before I start. So maybe I don't freeze any water lines.

You guys got hammered up north. Stay safe.

Buckeye nice pictures.

Kev. Add a toggle switch on the + side of the battery. Label it truck and horse. :). As far as brakes. Good luck. Electric trailer brakes are the one thing I don't have the patience for. I've found that when 12 volt wiring stats giving you trouble it will until it's all tore out and replaced. LED is the way to go also.

Roy. Happy birthday to your wife. And congrats on the post count.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,830  
3 this morning and headed to 37 today. Currently 24. Should be good for the melt and the creation of mud. Almost 60 forecast for next weekend. What a roller coaster.

Kev. Add a toggle switch on the + side of the battery. Label it truck and horse. :). As far as brakes. Good luck. Electric trailer brakes are the one thing I don't have the patience for. I've found that when 12 volt wiring stats giving you trouble it will until it's all tore out and replaced. LED is the way to go also.

You know guys, I grew up in NM & CO and remember the cold and snow, but for the life of me can't fathom wanting to be where it is 3 degrees. I am cussing 26 and that is a heat wave compared to 3. My hat is off to all you guys north of me.

That is exactly what I am doing with the wiring. It had so many loose wires and splices, that I just ripped it out. Now I want to redo it with some proper connections and have it work right. LOL
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,831  
KevT just take a VOM and check the sewing machine switch. If you get resistance in the range you are looking for you should be good to go. I would suggest having a master plug on trailer that a: when hooked to tow vehicle just engages tail light and brakes (if needed). Have a second plug that includes all lights and trailer battery.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,832  
Good Morning. 1015, sunny, 38F with 68% humidity. Forecast high of 53F with no chance of rain today, and a low of 32F tonight. {these are numbers from Bristol, as the Blountstown station is off line. But Bristol is just across the river so they should be close} It was 29F with a heavy frost when I rolled out at 0745.

There is no wind today, so I'm thinking about spending the middle part of the day in the woods. We had a late breakfast {I cooked sausage and cheese omelettes} and plan on an early supper {Margie laid two bags of peas out to thaw}, so I'll just take some ham, cheese and pita bread with me for a snack.

Happy birthday Mrs. Roy.

You guys stay safe and warm,

Larro
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,833  
Good morning all. 37F this morning light wind and clear. Wind has kicked up already, forecast for 60F 18+ mph and partly to mostly cloudy today. Test ride on 10-speed, help stepdaughter with her new TV and football for TMA.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,834  
63°F and no rain since midnight.

A football kinda day. :)

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,835  
2016-01-24, 0526 -1 degrees right now...high of 29 today. Wifey's birthday...I'm taking her to dinner this afternoon. BTW, we watched "The Martian" last night. This is the movie about an astronaut accidently left behind when the crew had to abort the mission. It's an excellent film and I highly recommend it.

Wish her a very Happy Birthday.

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,836  
Good morning! 28˚ when I woke up and 60˚ now and windy from the South. The Gulf of Mexico's (which they should rename the Gulf of Texas) warm water breeze is among us.

I called Mom yesterday to see about feeding some more round bales and she said Dad already did it - He's recovered and back on the tractor again!:cool2:

Roy, does you wife get to wear the "special" hat on her birthday?
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,837  
RNG, Thanks.

Problem 1) To pull a wagon (horse or vehicle) on the streets here in FL it has to have headlights, tail lights, flashers. This wagon also has elect. brakes. All of this is no problem by adding a battery to run it all, my question is I have a set of shafts for the horse to pull it, and those can be switched out for a tow bar for the truck or tractor to pull it (like taking it to a parade). How do I connect a RV 7 Pin trailer plug to it with out getting feed back to the stand alone battery. and make everything work.

Problem 2) Wanting a brake pedal for the brakes, will a 120V AC variable switch (sewing machine pedal) work on 12V DC? I know I can do it with a trailer brake controller and just use the manual switch, but that doesn't give me a pedal for my foot while my hands are full of reins.

Bet you want to recant your offer now, huh? :laughing:

Nah. What you're wanting to do isn't too complicated if you take it a piece at a time. But first a question:

Will you be activating the turn signals, brake lights, and headlights when the wagon is horse drawn?

If so, then you'll need some kind of switch for each of those circuits. And when the wagon is being towed by a truck, those switches will need to be wired in parallel with the ones in the truck that control the same lamps. That means that the wire from the trailer connector on the wagon, which will have 12V on it when the corresponding switch in the truck is closed, needs to go to the switched side of the switch in the wagon, which is the same as the switched side of the lamp (the other side of all the lamps in the wagon will go to ground, and that's just the negative lead of the battery in the wagon).

The trailer connector on your truck may or may not have a hot lead in it that is either always on or switched on with the truck ignition. You could wire that lead to the positive terminal of the battery in the wagon and the battery would charge when the trailer connector is connected. I don't see any harm there, other than the possibility of leaving the trailer lights on and discharging both batteries, but that is only a possibility if the hot lead in the truck trailer connector is not switched with the truck ignition.

Then there's the ground lead from the truck, which should be wired to the negative terminal on the battery via the trailer connector.

As far as the trailer brake is concerned, I'm only familiar with the kind that use an electromagnet in the brake assembly to activate the brake shoe. The more current that is applied to the electromagnet, the stronger the brake force. The ones I've seen aren't very strong, certainly not strong enough to lock the trailer tires, even on gravel. As such the trailer brake is intended to help the main brakes, which are in the tow vehicle, and they aren't intended to be the only brake in the system. I don't know how much your wagon weighs or how much you intend to haul with it, but you might want to think about how fast you need to stop if you're going to use an electric brake as I've described.

As far as how to wire the electric trailer brake, if your sewing machine switch is nothing more than a variable resistor, it would work, as long as the resistance is very high when you have your foot off the pedal. It would be better if it also had a switch in it so that the first bit of pedal movement closes the switch. If not, there would always be some small amount of current going to the electromagnets in the trailer brakes, and in a total loss system like when you've got the horses hitched to the wagon, the battery will eventually go flat. Either way, one side of the sewing machine pedal would go to the battery on the wagon, the other to the electromagnets on the trailer brakes. And the brake lead in the trailer connector would also go to the trailer brake electromagnets.

Clear as mud? I can see the schematic in my mind, but I'm too lazy to draw it out for you. If I was doing the job myself that's the first thing I'd do though. If you see things the same way, have a go at a schematic, take a picture of it, and post it here. I'm sure all the electrical experts will have a field day with it. :laughing:
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,838  
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Before and after of the drive to the barn. Also did my neighbors drive.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,839  
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Opps, got a little too close to the other barn door. Busted the latch.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #41,840  
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