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  • February 23, 2009 at 12:13 am #40224
    Plowboy
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    Here are some photos of our Spring plow weekend. The first is of my Dad with 6 of our horses on a converted 2 bottom McCormick tractor plow. The second is of me driving 8 on a spring tooth harrow with 4 of ours in front and a friends 4 in the back. The third is of a few of our friends plowing down the field. A couple teams of Halflingers, one team of Belgians, and Fjords in the back.

    February 23, 2009 at 12:50 am #50177
    jen judkins
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    Very Nice!!!:)

    February 23, 2009 at 1:41 am #50176
    aaronlee
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    Plowboy are those pics from this year. I only say this because as I look outside right now there is a foot of fresh snow and another foot still to fall tonight.

    Aaron

    February 23, 2009 at 1:49 am #50169
    Plowboy
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    No there not from this year but it won’t be long now hopefully. It’s snowing here too but not like you are getting it.

    February 23, 2009 at 3:06 am #50179
    Robert MoonShadow
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    Plowboy; I’ll send you some of my weather: I just cranked up the hated Ford Ferguson yesterday to do the spring discing & springtooth on the truck garden. My suffering comes in the form of triple-digit temps from June through September. 16 miles north of me on the Camas Prairie other side of the pass (the pass elevation is 4240 ft), they got 2″ of snow Friday. They’re only 600 ft. higher in elevation than us, on the prairie.
    Idaho is just weird.

    February 26, 2009 at 12:37 am #50170
    Plowboy
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    Robert, Some warmer plowing weather would be nice but I’m not sure I would want your triple digit temps in the summer.

    February 26, 2009 at 12:20 pm #50175
    Jean
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    I am not trying to hijack this thread, but I have some questions about plow days, or plow competitions.

    I have been trying for 2 years to get a plow day, or maybe a competition going and have not had any luck. The first thing I have tried to find is a place to hold it. My land is really heavy clay that is either too wet or too dry and hard. Maybe that is not really an issue, someone must have plowed this land by horse at some point in time. Is clay a reasonable soil to plow?

    The other is, if it were a competition do teamsters except to make money if they win, or is a hardy pat on the back and and a winners trophy enough?

    Any ideas would be wonderful. All of you Green Mountain Draft people, any interest in such a thing?

    February 26, 2009 at 10:20 pm #50171
    Plowboy
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    Jean we just invite a bunch of draft animal friends that like to plow and provide good food. We have never had any problem getting people to show up but there is a strong draft community within a 50 mile radius of here. We usually have between 12 and 20 some teams. We haven’t broke the 30 mark but have came close. Maybe it’s the deep fried turkey or just folks like to come here. Our silo fill is a little more involved with barbequed beef rounds and pork loins. I’ve never competed in a plowing competition even though we have a team of mares that are sweet on the walking plow. I guess it would depend on the competitors. If they just do it for fun then a trophy might be sufficient.

    February 26, 2009 at 11:20 pm #50174
    J-L
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    More great pictures Plowboy! Not much plowing around here anymore. The ground that we put into alfalfa or haybarley/oats is really rocky. We tend to use a disc and not go too deep.
    Not to be a post stirrer, but which of those teams got the most work done in a day? Or which could?
    Interesting question with the three diverse teams in the picture don’t you think?
    Thanks for more good pictures.

    February 27, 2009 at 12:14 am #50172
    Plowboy
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    By the looks of the picture they all seem to be keeping up with each other don’t you think? Those 4 teams all do alot of plowing so there aren’t any slouches there. Any of them will do alot of work if they are used to working. The smaller horses Haflingers and Fjords do more work pound for pound but there are alot of jobs I like draft size horses for but those small ones can do alot in a day. I like the Fjords temperment better over the Haflingers. I’m still parshall to our farm type Percherons and I also like Suffolks but don’t own any yet. We usuallly plow 20-25 acres per year mostly with horses. The field the pictures were taken in is 13 acres and we plowed it that weekend with a bunch of friends helping. We have good gravely topsoil with hardly any stones as you can see at my Dads place and mine is all river bottom silt/loam. It is good plowing in this valley maybe thats part of the reason for a good turnout!

    February 27, 2009 at 2:56 am #50178
    OldKat
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    Plowboy,

    The picture of you driving the eight black and grays is going to be my new desktop for my PC at work. Great pictures, all nice horses.

    March 10, 2009 at 10:51 pm #50173
    Plowboy
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    Glad everyone liked the photos. I have alot more of us doing alot of different things that I will work on posting.

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