Oak Knob Farm is our small and slowly expanding farm on 5 acres in Deerfield, New Hampshire. Our farm was named in honor of my great-great-grandparent's homestead established in the mid-1800's in Henry County, Illinois.
We currently have a 1000 sq ft vegetable garden, as well as an ever growing variety of berries including blueberries, raspberries, goji berries, cranberries, haaskap (honeyberry) and strawberry.
We raise a small flock of egg-layers, and have a small sawmill to process timber from our property. We'd love for you to join us!
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Buen video!!!...Cuántos años tenían esas garras antes de separarlas para trasplantatlas en otra zona? Puse las mias todas juntas y no sé cuanyo tengo que esperar para separarlas...🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
@@OakKnobFarmWe had a few things happen that prompted us to sell and move. Just sold our cabin and the garden. Offer accepted on another place. Vids coming soon.
Not a bad little unit for messing around and grabbing a little video for RU-vid. I wish my Mavic Mini had follow me and some obstacle avoidance sensors. Take care my friend.
Can you help tell me what kind of stone i have? Its hard to explain but it has around 10 rectangle see through green stones and what looks to be gold to me but who knows and clear crystals as well like some kind of quartz and some dark orange and in 2 spots its magnetic. Ive taken pictures and tried searching on google but many different options pop up that dont look like it. Its also not fully cleaned because i dont know how lol
It's a mix of my leftover veg scraps, grass clippings, leaves, and bedding / manure from the chicken coop. I'll try to make a video about it this summer as my scrap piles grow
I enjoyed that! I like the way you are building soil with the materials that you have in natural abundance! I can see you have to protect against deer!
Thanks! I've been happy with my soil building experiments so far. I should dig a few test pits and see what's going on deeper down in the hugelkultur piles. And deer are certainly a bit of a pain!
Sorry ... don't mean to bug you, but I am intrigued with your upgrade. I have the Pro375 11.5 - I think I have a clutch. The pull cord when starting is a hazard as it gets violently pulled from my hand and one time cracking the plastic engine cover. Been 3-4 years since I started it but I hate it. What I wanted to ask is what Briggs electric start motor model did you get? i think I currently have 7 hp - newer models are 9 hp after 2022 I read. Thanks again
Mine is a bit older than yours, I think (the previous model). You can tell if it has a clutch: the chipper assembly should be able to spin freely with the engine off if you have one. The original pull start engine was a 250cc +/- "Briggs 1150", which I understand to be abut 9 HP and 11.5 ft-lbs of torque. It also did the same thing as yours yanking the pull cord out of your hand. The new electric start engine is a 420cc "Predator" I got from Harbor Freight
I've watched all your videos today - thanks again for showing your creativity and knowledge. I would love to do the improvements you did one day - can I ask what kind of welder you used? Can it be done with a Harbor Freight one? Was it stick welding? I have a similar machine - used one season and sitting for 3 years. Been thinking of taking a stab at it.
I have a relatively cheap Lincoln 120V wire feed welder that I bought at Lowes. It's nothing super fancy, so I imagine something from HF would work fine
@@OakKnobFarm They will be worth the wait, enjoy! Trying to figure out how long to wait to harvest my 'Millennial Asparagus', they were already 2-3 years old and quite large when I planted my purchased crowns. I also grew 'Martha Washington Asparagus' from seed last year but have a while to wait for those.
Wish you lived next to me. I have the same chipper. Nothing but problems in the 1st year and has been sitting outside the last 4 years looking like an orange sculpture. Same experience of no support or local place to service. Wheel bearing went ... got replacement wheel bearings from Dr. Power but could not get it to balance right. I forgot how many washers when on each side of the whee - Starts ok from my repairs but the flywheel starts hitting against something after a while ... got fed up and it sat. Been thinking of trying again and saw your video. Hopefully it will help me more than Dr. Power
I very much enjoyed this video. Didn't DR initially ship this chipper with a clutch? I forgot where I read it now, but those clutches DR used kept failing, and DR sent out repair kits that did away with the clutch. Doing away with the clutch is what's causing the hard starting. There's a lot of vibration on the bearing visible at 10:51. I wonder about the longevity of this bearing.
I believe you are correct that these used to have clutches, but that was before I bought mine (I've had this one a little over 5 years). I have heard about the clutch failures, but am unsure what they used for an OEM unit back in the day. We'll see! I looked at the point in the video you referenced, and it certainly looks like the bearing is moving. While looking at it in person it does not appear to vibrate at all. I'll have to put a run-out gauge on it to see what's going on for sure next time I run it
Nice upgrade Dave. Looks like it does decent size chips (not too small). I really want to get a chipper so I don't have to drive to town to get them. They're free when they have them but we have branches everywhere up here that I could be running. Take care.
