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Nov 17, 2012 12:03:30 #

SWINDELL Loc: Portland, Maine

what is the differnce between whiffletree,singletree and a doubletree?

Nov 17, 2012 12:53:35 #

jadeast Loc: Virginia

I'm going to assume you're refering to their use with draught animals. A wiffletree may be a singletree, doubltree, tripletree being a horizontal bar that couples the traces of a draught animal to a load. a singletree for one animal, a doubletree would likely have two singletrees attached in conjunction with two draught animals to equalize the load.

Nov 17, 2012 13:18:26 #

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

depends how many you want to pull with.

http://www.google.com/search?q=whiffletree&hl=en&tbo=d&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4SKPT_enUS442US442&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=etSnULCwKsrBqAHG0IGwAg&sqi=2&ved=0CAQQ_AUoAA&biw=1093&bih=483

Nov 17, 2012 14:13:35 #

tlbuljac Loc: Oklahoma

what the hell did he say :?

Nov 17, 2012 16:43:44 #

tschmath Loc: Los Angeles

tlbuljac wrote:

what the hell did he say :?

I'm with you. WTF was that about?

Nov 17, 2012 18:39:40 #

oldmalky Loc: West Midlands,England.

When you find out let me know as well.

Nov 18, 2012 04:38:20 #

SWINDELL Loc: Portland, Maine

I can see some people are not country boys.
Origin of whiffletree alteration of whippletree first known use: circe 1806. Singletree first known use of 1841.
Whiffletree is use in N.E. State.Singletree is use down in the South. Swing bar that connects a animal harness to a Vehicle ( as a cart ) or a plow... called also ...Whippletree.
Been useing them for 80 years. Have a nice day.

Nov 18, 2012 06:20:22 #

VHD-Tex Loc: Mc Allen Tx.

I know--I know. A single tree is one tree. A double tree is two trees. A whiffletree tree is a tree that struck out and is dead. Right?

Nov 18, 2012 09:51:00 #

Ron K. Loc: Upstate NY.

I dug up a lot of those harness parts when using a metal detector along the old Erie Canal here in NYS - before they turned those portions of the canal into a State Park. Then removing anything like that became a no-no.

Nov 20, 2012 18:09:49 #

Wabbit Loc: Arizona Desert

SWINDELL wrote:

what is the differnce between whiffletree,singletree and a doubletree?

Hey Doc .....

Nov 23, 2012 05:02:13 #

SWINDELL Loc: Portland, Maine

You are right!!!

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