Recommend Good Horse Logging DVD/Video Anyone?

@Michael Colby 21754 wrote:

Farmer Brown’s videos are good. But, better than that, find someone who’s doing it in your area and watch/help/learn in real time.

Thanks, Michael.

I agree with your comment about real time mentoring, and it’s always what i recommend first, too. There’s always the very real drawback, however, that with skills this esoteric and rare, this can be entirely unrealistic. Unless you have a lot of spare time and travel money.

I started green with mostly green horses, and just “had at ‘er” armed with books to learn from. I use them for the farm work now – don’t have a tractor. There was some very limited mentoring available (mostly by phone), and it was very valuable, but i think if i had relied on real time training to learn, i’d still be doing something else. It’s not an approach i’d recommend to the faint of heart, but for some folks, it’s probably this or never learn. Thanks to Lynn Miller and Doc Hammill especially, I never had a serious wreck.

Anyway, just to clarify, i’ve felled my share of trees and hauled just about everything other than trees in the woods with horses – just looking for a good source to fill in the blanks, supply the details rather than the basics.

Thanks for the lead, i’ll look up Farmer Brown. I also wonder if any of the loggers on here have anythng out?

Hey, BW – do these last have examples of contracts? This is the sort of nitty-gritty i’ll be needing.

And again, i totally agree apprenticing is the best way to go, but for me that means local – as in within an hour’s drive or less – or it’s a no-go. This is for two reasons: a) i’m a horse farmer (= it’s expensive and I can’t afford it!) and b) travel is at any rate one of our culture’s least sustainable elitist habits, and even in the days i could afford it i made up my mind to try to avoid doing it wherever possible on principle.

Once again, thanks for the leads…