A nice little steam engine would help very much around your farm I am guessing... hmmmm ideas............. put some outriggers on the trolley with wheels and it could be a fun ride. I love Chris's idea of the springs on the wheels to help with the curvature of the track. I do hope your wife's foot is much better now.
I have seen a similar set up used in a small sawmill that produced furniture parts in my hometown on the Pacific northwest coast of Washington state. The cart deck was made of wood with metal single wheels underneath. Used to move large amounts of cut wood from one machine to another before forklifts were commonly used. I wish that I had salvaged a few of the wheels when the mill was scrapped out 30 years ago.
One advantage of this monorail system would be should the cart start to run away on you (on a downhill slope for instance) simply letting the cart tip over to the side provides instant braking.
I need these permanently laid as a rail line across most of my property (5.5 acres on a (mostly) gentle hill). I could just add sections of line as I build garden beds.
I hope Sandra heals soon. Aside from that, Your monorail looks like a real E ticket ride. I look forward to seeing more of the miracles your greenhouse produces. Thanks for having us along.
The farm life is hazardous to feet, it seems. My great grandfather lost a toe, and a friend of mine had a few of her toes broken by a cow on a couple of occasions! I wish you quick healing, Sandra ☺
Poor S was quite upset when it happened - but that only lasted about an hour and she was back at it all. No holding her back. Hope you and your toes are good?
I admire the effort you put on the making of these videos. It makes them just perfect to understand the message and all the details. You are so precious. Thank you so very much. Greetings from Portugal.
The Spa factory in Thorsby Alberta has a rail system. It uses 2" angle irons turned with the 90 degree corner pointed up. Welded to flat bar sleepers rock bolted to the cement. There are no switches, track changes are all done with manual rotators. The steel wheels are flat with a V groove cut in. Where the tracks cross there is a thick square of steel that is the right height for the flat part of the wheels to smoothly transition off then back onto the angle iron rails. To rotate a cart, you center it on the turn table. Lift the turning handle out of the angle iron stops that aligns it. Rotate it to the next station and drop the handle into the next stop position. Then there are specific carts for specific areas of the plant. There are even crossings for fork lifts.
I would think the main reason you don't see then anymore is because or motorized equipment now days. It doesn't look like it'd go to far if it gets away from you though
I am ploughing my way through your catalogue totally out of sequence - just for the hell of it.😉 As I smile my way through them with oodles of enjoyment I have one question about the monorail - have I missed the video where you fit a gyroscope to the cart to keep it horizontal?🤣 Keep up the good work.👍
Just as I was about to get mad at ya all, ya show a thumbnail pic with Miss Sandra on the monorail, and ya all are just using it to cart horse manure down the steep slope and in the nick of time she appears riding on the monorail! Hehehehe.....gotta love that West Irish ingenuity! :)
this is brilliant I notice your fish boxes have nice notices on them ours say " property of such and such location no unauthorized use" I always feel like I am using the fish box and I am unauthourized !!
tim! they make a cheap level that clamps on conduit for bending. you won't need a ladder. look at electrical supply houses. keeps out dogs(angles forming when bending). if you can't find it let me know.
I have a bender that keeps the corners round - I just hung it up high so the ends were free to fall vertically so they stayed in the same plane. I'lll look up those levels though - do they have a special name?
electrician conduit level. cheap (15 bucks give or take) allows you to bend horizontally as the thing clamps on the pipe. also to get consistent bends measure the travel of the ram. once you know the travel for a bend, you can replicate perfectly evey one
Have you managed to combine the horse and the monorail? Maybe the horse can pull forwards and the operator (driver?) keeps it balanced, when moving heavy loads uphill
Love your video's! Please can you do a month in our garden again next year, I miss it sooo much. Best series ever! :) Also, my garlic has withered away & died :( I decided to plant some organic bulbs from Tescos, and I don't know if it's because it snowed 3 x but they started to grow nicely, then never really came to anything and the last week they're disappearing, fallen over & dead. I dug one up & it was the size of a small silver skin pickled onion! lol Poor things. I'm in Wales uk. Grew them in a spot not used for anything for yrs. It's so weird. I've read supermarket garlic are treated to not grow, but these were organic. Do u think that's what it was? Because they were already starting to shoot in my fridge lol (I originally got them for eating, but they seemed to want to grow so I obliged as it was the right time of year & you did yours) I was wondering where I should get my bulbs from. Did u grow them from seed initially? Thanks for any help
Thanks, Angel - yes we might do some more of the garden soon. Not sure what to say about your garlic though. It seems a bit early for them to be ending their growing season - but perhaps not. Our elephant garlic still has a month or more to go - but the ordinary ones are browning up already. Don't give up though! Try again in the autumn with a different variety and add more manure to the soil - they can't get enough
Thank you! :) That would be great. My garlic didn't amount to much, they didn't seem very happy, poor things! I didn't know about manure, that's good to know. Yours from last year look amazing by comparison. Do you grow from supermarket garlics or seeds pls? Thanks I will try again. I just wondered what I did wrong. Feel better soon, Sandra, and pls keep the vids coming I love them
I always just tape the toe to its neighbor. Be careful of those boots they make your knee take all of the stress. I now have a bad knee courtesy of one of those boots and a clueless Dr.
The monorail appears to be a handy mode of transportation for your 'muck'(and your wife). You have to be careful not to stumble over the sleepers though. Sticks and stones can break bones you know...
I do like it really, but you have the horse already before the sled, so it could pull up right to the doors or even into the greenhouse, and thus no need to handle those heavy shitcrates one more time?
I would put a second set rail’s beside the other rail’s and move the trolley wheels to the outside edges, this would be easier to balance the load on your platform and not have to try and balance it as you go down the hill or push it back up the hill . Also I would put a handbrake off of a bicycle or motorcycle cycle to clamp on the rail to slow it down if it tries to get away from you.
Then it wouldn't be a monorail, Donald. What you describe would be easier to balance, for sure, but it would cost much more to make - and take many times longer to put in place. Monorails are great because they are so easy to move - and balancing is really easy
You are a very cute couple ☺ My yard isn't quite big enough for a monorail, but I do enjoy gardening, in my little backyard garden. My question is, has your little wagon ever tipped over? It doesn't look that sturdy, but kind of a unique way to cart your supplies to your greenhouse. You would probably enjoy where I live, because I live on the prairies in Alberta, where you can see your dog running away for 3 days, because it's so flat!
Amazing, what a neet thing to have , so many ways to use it are popping up right away...very inspiring. Thanks a lot By the way, how long do you let the horse dung sit before using it?
Thanks, Evi. We leave the dung/bedding mix to compost for two years if we can - but sometimes we can only wait one. It depends what it's going on - potatoes don't mind fresh - most other things don't like it too fresh
Why is it on blocks? Wouldn't placing the rail directly on the ground make the balancing a bit easier? Incorporate a couple of wheel barrow tires or something similar for the balancing instead of rails for ease of movement. Easier on the hills. Just a suggestion. Thanks for the video.
It's only on blocks where there's a hollow under the rail. It just flops down on the ground otherwise (should have filmed that, I guess). The balancing is really easy in fact, because the weight is so low down over the wheels. Wheels on the sides? Instead of the skids? Yes, maybe, but probably not worth the extra effort/cost
i dont know if i posted here on this subject befoe . these are called "on ground monorails". there is a fine example of a preserved one in your country and india. sorry i dont have links . some were powered by steam and or petrol.
03:17 what?? why not??? That could have saved my day ;-) ;-) 04:28 not to much of a job for Chris though, to add some little bicycle-cinch-brake to the first wheel
I must have missed the part where you explain why you need to bend pipe way up in the sky, rather than horizontallly, letting the ground hold it up ...?
Actually it worked very well - the ends were free to fall vertically so all the bends stay in the same plane. I know eveyone says you can bend it on the ground - but it's not easy in my experience because the bender doesn't sit flush to the gorund and we don't have a big enough flat place anywhere.
If you go as fast as you possibly can the gyroscopic effect of the spinning wheels should keep it upright. That's how bikes work. Speed is your friend!
Tim, Sandra, Chris, do you know if anyone is building parts for garden monorails in North America? I live in Mississippi, in the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. I also have no welding skills.....
Hi Douglas. A man named Luke wrote to me last week from the States about his - I could put him onto you if you like? But really, they're so simple any local welder should be able to help you.
Unequivocally the cutest couple on UA-cam
I like that it even sounds like a railroad with the steel on steel and clanging over joints.
Great video, Sandra & Tim...👍
Very very good idea.
Very cool to see the monorail again. That's how I originally found out about this channel. Everyone with land needs one!
Hurrah and thanks to you all!
A nice little steam engine would help very much around your farm I am guessing... hmmmm ideas............. put some outriggers on the trolley with wheels and it could be a fun ride. I love Chris's idea of the springs on the wheels to help with the curvature of the track. I do hope your wife's foot is much better now.
WOW! This is amazing!
What a beautiful place
I have seen a similar set up used in a small sawmill that produced furniture parts in my hometown on the Pacific northwest coast of Washington state. The cart deck was made of wood with metal single wheels underneath. Used to move large amounts of cut wood from one machine to another before forklifts were commonly used. I wish that I had salvaged a few of the wheels when the mill was scrapped out 30 years ago.
simply
amazing!
Great idea
You need some of those metal toed paddock boots!
Chris is a genius!
One advantage of this monorail system would be should the cart start to run away on you (on a downhill slope for instance) simply letting the cart tip over to the side provides instant braking.
Get well soon, Sandra
A previous video of the monorail being used is what brought me to your channel. What a great invention!
and you're still here!
Way Out West Blow-in blog That I am :)
I need these permanently laid as a rail line across most of my property (5.5 acres on a (mostly) gentle hill). I could just add sections of line as I build garden beds.
Love the mono rail idea makes wish I had room to make use of one !!
Wow! the monorail ride is very smooth, not really bumpy at all.
I hope Sandra heals soon. Aside from that, Your monorail looks like a real E ticket ride.
I look forward to seeing more of the miracles your greenhouse produces. Thanks for having us along.
I love these monorail videos. Thank you!
Heal well and quicjly, Sandra!
Thanks, Kirsten : - )
The farm life is hazardous to feet, it seems. My great grandfather lost a toe, and a friend of mine had a few of her toes broken by a cow on a couple of occasions! I wish you quick healing, Sandra ☺
And next shoes with iron fronts.
Good idea
i like that poly tunnel to. nice & tall in the trees so wind can't blow it down. i've had 2 broken toes milking cows, almost as painful as my cooking
Oh, ow! At least cows don't usually have iron shoes on
Simple yet smart idea that monorail! Speedy recovery Sandra.
Thanks, Claude : - )
You should sell tickets for that ride!
I agree it looked enormous fun, not everyone can say they've ridden one of those lol
Ha! Good plan!
Great video Tim & Sandra. Lovely team work together 💕 so glad that the toe is not stopping you have fun and shite ! Xx
Poor S was quite upset when it happened - but that only lasted about an hour and she was back at it all. No holding her back.
Hope you and your toes are good?
I admire the effort you put on the making of these videos. It makes them just perfect to understand the message and all the details. You are so precious.
Thank you so very much. Greetings from Portugal.
Thanks, Vitor
So simple yet very clever.
The Spa factory in Thorsby Alberta has a rail system. It uses 2" angle irons turned with the 90 degree corner pointed up. Welded to flat bar sleepers rock bolted to the cement. There are no switches, track changes are all done with manual rotators. The steel wheels are flat with a V groove cut in. Where the tracks cross there is a thick square of steel that is the right height for the flat part of the wheels to smoothly transition off then back onto the angle iron rails.
To rotate a cart, you center it on the turn table. Lift the turning handle out of the angle iron stops that aligns it. Rotate it to the next station and drop the handle into the next stop position. Then there are specific carts for specific areas of the plant. There are even crossings for fork lifts.
Awesome video all the way from New Zealand
I just love you two!
Aw!!
Goodness that was adorable! I love these looks into your daily life, and It makes me dream of, one day, living on a farm too. :)
Brilliant! Love problem solving. You are such a positive and delightful team.
I wore my self out a few weeks ago getting some firewood out of the woods in a wheel barrow, this would be an awesome tool for that application!
that dolly shot was good. monorail for the win.
Great idea!
Clever idea!!!
I love it, you guys are geniuses!
Good job👏👏👏
Good job on the monorail, dual purpose, manure and Sandra, great job
Lawn tractor plus wagon would make life a lot easier.
A little handbrake from the handle to the wheels would surely help the downhills.
I would think the main reason you don't see then anymore is because or motorized equipment now days. It doesn't look like it'd go to far if it gets away from you though
Brilliant.
that looks great fun :)
So clever!!
It's what every good man should do, keep his wife happy
How clever.
Poor lass. Broken toe and she still has to muck in. Great monorail though!
Sandra only took an hour or so off work after it happened. She's pretty tough
You could do with a brake Tim, not a rest or a broken foot but a cart slower upper for your steep hill
Ha! Chris assures me that it would go even faster with a brake on because the wheel would skid...
Best not to go downhill in front of the load, up to your neck in muck and battered.
then we'd need to change the angle of the handle to save our shins. SOS!
I am ploughing my way through your catalogue totally out of sequence - just for the hell of it.😉 As I smile my way through them with oodles of enjoyment I have one question about the monorail - have I missed the video where you fit a gyroscope to the cart to keep it horizontal?🤣 Keep up the good work.👍
Just as I was about to get mad at ya all, ya show a thumbnail pic with Miss Sandra on the monorail, and ya all are just using it to cart horse manure down the steep slope and in the nick of time she appears riding on the monorail! Hehehehe.....gotta love that West Irish ingenuity! :)
Why were you going to get mad, Joe?
lol...well I was gonna say the thumbnail pic was similar to Click Bait. ;)
this is brilliant I notice your fish boxes have nice notices on them ours say " property of such and such location no unauthorized use" I always feel like I am using the fish box and I am unauthourized !!
I know - how to make us feel guilty, right? But we find all ours washed up on the beach so whoput them in the sea in the first place?!
tim! they make a cheap level that clamps on conduit for bending. you won't need a ladder. look at electrical supply houses. keeps out dogs(angles forming when bending). if you can't find it let me know.
I have a bender that keeps the corners round - I just hung it up high so the ends were free to fall vertically so they stayed in the same plane. I'lll look up those levels though - do they have a special name?
electrician conduit level. cheap (15 bucks give or take) allows you to bend horizontally as the thing clamps on the pipe. also to get consistent bends measure the travel of the ram. once you know the travel for a bend, you can replicate perfectly evey one
Have you managed to combine the horse and the monorail? Maybe the horse can pull forwards and the operator (driver?) keeps it balanced, when moving heavy loads uphill
I want to ride the monorail too 😂
Love your video's! Please can you do a month in our garden again next year, I miss it sooo much. Best series ever! :) Also, my garlic has withered away & died :( I decided to plant some organic bulbs from Tescos, and I don't know if it's because it snowed 3 x but they started to grow nicely, then never really came to anything and the last week they're disappearing, fallen over & dead. I dug one up & it was the size of a small silver skin pickled onion! lol Poor things. I'm in Wales uk. Grew them in a spot not used for anything for yrs. It's so weird. I've read supermarket garlic are treated to not grow, but these were organic. Do u think that's what it was? Because they were already starting to shoot in my fridge lol (I originally got them for eating, but they seemed to want to grow so I obliged as it was the right time of year & you did yours) I was wondering where I should get my bulbs from. Did u grow them from seed initially? Thanks for any help
Thanks, Angel - yes we might do some more of the garden soon. Not sure what to say about your garlic though. It seems a bit early for them to be ending their growing season - but perhaps not. Our elephant garlic still has a month or more to go - but the ordinary ones are browning up already. Don't give up though! Try again in the autumn with a different variety and add more manure to the soil - they can't get enough
Thank you! :) That would be great. My garlic didn't amount to much, they didn't seem very happy, poor things! I didn't know about manure, that's good to know. Yours from last year look amazing by comparison. Do you grow from supermarket garlics or seeds pls? Thanks I will try again. I just wondered what I did wrong. Feel better soon, Sandra, and pls keep the vids coming I love them
I really enjoy your Videos and I say screw you tube for demonetizing your channel
sandra hope you recovering well tell bob i said hello
Thanks, Mohammed. Getting better all the time!
That definitely needs a motorised drive wheel.
For long journeys maybe, but really it's so easy to push it's best to keep it simple.
Should’ve loaded up baskets and put them on the big horses and walk them down there.
Great video! I just subscribed and love your channel :D keep up the great work!
Put a comfrey root poultice on your toe. Works like a dream xxxxx
Thanks, wormwood. mmmm, comfrey root poultice.... : - )
I always just tape the toe to its neighbor. Be careful of those boots they make your knee take all of the stress. I now have a bad knee courtesy of one of those boots and a clueless Dr.
Thanks Hugh. Yes, it does seem too much support - I'll have a think..
The monorail appears to be a handy mode of transportation for your 'muck'(and your wife). You have to be careful not to stumble over the sleepers though. Sticks and stones can break bones you know...
You're right, we have enough of that already!
Lol! So i've noticed =)
Thank you for sharing your amazing video. God bless you and your family
Get well soon...great idea...is somthing broken ?? ☺😊😯
broken toe : - (
good holding of the steel pipe sandra...not enough credit goes to those who have to "hold the torch"
Quite right : - )
2:00 are you making a garden roller coaster? :')
What is the green muzzle/bucket thing on the horse? Curious mind(s) want to know.
It's to stop her grazing all the time when she should be concentrating on the job
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I do like it really, but you have the horse already before the sled, so it could pull up right to the doors or even into the greenhouse, and thus no need to handle those heavy shitcrates one more time?
I would put a second set rail’s beside the other rail’s and move the trolley wheels to the outside edges, this would be easier to balance the load on your platform and not have to try and balance it as you go down the hill or push it back up the hill . Also I would put a handbrake off of a bicycle or motorcycle cycle to clamp on the rail to slow it down if it tries to get away from you.
Then it wouldn't be a monorail, Donald. What you describe would be easier to balance, for sure, but it would cost much more to make - and take many times longer to put in place. Monorails are great because they are so easy to move - and balancing is really easy
You are a very cute couple ☺ My yard isn't quite big enough for a monorail, but I do enjoy gardening, in my little backyard garden. My question is, has your little wagon ever tipped over? It doesn't look that sturdy, but kind of a unique way to cart your supplies to your greenhouse. You would probably enjoy where I live, because I live on the prairies in Alberta, where you can see your dog running away for 3 days, because it's so flat!
Ha! That's a great image, Stafanie. Sounds like the perfect terrain for a railway. : - )
I was shocked to see you leading your wife up the garden path Tim one hopes you don't make a habit of this .
Steel-cap boots...problem solved! :)
She uses them all the time at home but she dressed up for a special occasion. Vanity, huh?!
Amazing, what a neet thing to have , so many ways to use it are popping up right away...very inspiring. Thanks a lot
By the way, how long do you let the horse dung sit before using it?
Thanks, Evi. We leave the dung/bedding mix to compost for two years if we can - but sometimes we can only wait one. It depends what it's going on - potatoes don't mind fresh - most other things don't like it too fresh
where is your railway project ?
in the garden, he says
What about a hand brake off a bicycle.
Why is it on blocks? Wouldn't placing the rail directly on the ground make the balancing a bit easier? Incorporate a couple of wheel barrow tires or something similar for the balancing instead of rails for ease of movement. Easier on the hills. Just a suggestion. Thanks for the video.
It's only on blocks where there's a hollow under the rail. It just flops down on the ground otherwise (should have filmed that, I guess). The balancing is really easy in fact, because the weight is so low down over the wheels. Wheels on the sides? Instead of the skids? Yes, maybe, but probably not worth the extra effort/cost
I understand completely. Thanks for the reply.
get a snowblower and turn it into a power barrow
"fish box full of horse shit"
oh no, there is a chemical bomb on this train!
i dont know if i posted here on this subject befoe . these are called "on ground monorails". there is a fine example of a preserved one in your country and india. sorry i dont have links . some were powered by steam and or petrol.
i know the problem i got steel toe cups but the sheeps stand on the area were the steel is not
Would it be better to push the cart instead of pulling it?
Monorraiiiiil! Monorraiiiil! Monorraiiiiiiiiiiii)!
winch add to it
03:17 what?? why not??? That could have saved my day ;-) ;-)
04:28 not to much of a job for Chris though, to add some little bicycle-cinch-brake to the first wheel
it's true - it could be done, but not really worth it. This is extreme monorailing - mostly it's done much more sedately : - )
love your videos,, but cannot help to wonder why don't you pave with stones or gravel the steep path.
Not sure what you mean, Jordi - covering the slope wouldn't make it any less steep, which is the main problem
he is ready to recreate human civilization after the Apocalypse
I must have missed the part where you explain why you need to bend pipe way up in the sky, rather than horizontallly, letting the ground hold it up ...?
Actually it worked very well - the ends were free to fall vertically so all the bends stay in the same plane. I know eveyone says you can bend it on the ground - but it's not easy in my experience because the bender doesn't sit flush to the gorund and we don't have a big enough flat place anywhere.
Instead of two springs...just use one attached between the two wheels. No need to attach to the frame.
yes, but the first wheel needs to swivel before the other, but your way would make them both swivel simultaneously, wouldn't it?
Way Out West Blow-in blog ....Im pretty confident it will work.
If you go as fast as you possibly can the gyroscopic effect of the spinning wheels should keep it upright. That's how bikes work. Speed is your friend!
it is a bit wheird you use the handle on the downhill side.
Double check your title! 'to the resCue' :)
thanks - sorted..
you too are simple aren't you.
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I would have one wheel on the rail in the front and two large bicycle wheels at the back for stability.
Then you would have to lift it around to change direction.. Spring loaded bumpy skids on both sides might work.
Tim, Sandra, Chris, do you know if anyone is building parts for garden monorails in North America? I live in Mississippi, in the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. I also have no welding skills.....
Hi Douglas. A man named Luke wrote to me last week from the States about his - I could put him onto you if you like? But really, they're so simple any local welder should be able to help you.
There’s many more efficient ways to achieve that task. Just in the time it took to set up the monorail, you would have been done with other methods