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| Stonehead |
Monkey Nuts' neep happer in actionMonkey Nuts gave us an old neep happer towards the end of last year. I refrubished it by replacing the worn bolts, ground rust off the blade, put a new edge on the blade, oiled the blade, lightly sanded the wooden horse it's bolted to, and rubbed a lot of boiled linseed oil into the wooden horse.On Sunday, it was put to good use... 
Full story on the blog: http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/harvesting-neeps/ A big thanks to Monkey Nuts as the happer made the job a lot faster and a lot safer—even though the happer looks designed to amputate fingers it's better than using a hatchet or machete! Oh, and I had a lot of pitying looks from older farmers for some reason... 
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| wildgarlic |
Great to see this back in action - I read the post as Monkey nuts neep happier in action LOL |
| Maria |
Me too
Great re-furb - took me a bit of head scratching before i realized what you meant by wooden horse. But then i'm not the sharpest pencil in the pack. 
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| kimmie |
Must admit i was a little nervous after miss reading the title too  good to see it in use though 
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| monkey nuts |
Glad you could make use of it Stoney
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