[Michel Boulay]

Hi Jac,
here is an other site with wood cook stoves, http://www.enterprise-fawcett.com,
made in Sackville New-Brunswick. I’ve googled all the others and I think from what I found there all made in Canada except for the Waterford Stanley which is in Ireland.
But depending on what your looking for with all the bells and whistles you find on these stoves there somewhat expensive. The $1000 stove Don got is a good price, but you still have to ship it, how much does that cost???

mike

[Michel Boulay]

Hi everybody,
got our first snow yesterday, around a cm with -7 C at night and -2 C daytime. Longrange we have rain and +8 C tuesday, so that first snow will probably all melt away. Rest of the week in the minus at night and low plus during the day.
Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Hi Mitch,
same thing here in New-Brunswick, last three days up to 4 inches in Moncton and more in the Saint-John area. Wash outs and flooding… More rain in those three days then in a month. They had more in Nova-Scotia. Feels like spring with the amount of water on the ground. Will have to wait two or three days or more for the water to seep down in the ground. Probably will have to work in mud anyways. Long range has sun for the next five days and fairly warm during the day.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Good looking pair Erika, hope you have fun with them. Love those colors. Keep us posted. Have a great time next week everybody!!:)
Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Awsome job Jen, you seem to be well coordinated.:D Did you have to stop often to give Reno a break? Keep it up.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

What did they do 40 years ago?? Somebody told me once that a slab of poplar nailed to the fence, the horse chewing the bark off of it will not have worms:confused: Is there any truth to all this or is it small talk?
Like you said Jac that residual build up in everything and everyone, how far can we go??

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Hi Jen,
well reading your story last night I knew right away how you felt. I had my first wreck two days ago.
Couldn’t do much for the past two weeks, snow melting couldn’t use the bobsled anymore and all the spring weather= mud rain….. So this week with the beautiful weather we got, I decided to ground drive Gena and put some time driving. I have this tractor tire that was in her paddock doing noting and that I was contemplating for a while hooking her up to it. So I hooked it up with a chain and singletree and got it ready for her. Ground drove her a couple of times around her paddock, then pulled up to the tire back her up and hooked the traces to the singletree, everything was going good. Gave a kiss and off we went. She tried to go faster then a walk but I had her under control. Went up the hill and thought well I’ll drive over the piles of manure to spread them out for a couple of turns and then unhitch and ground drive again and call it a day.

All was going well, when we started to go down the hill, not very steep a gradual descent maybe sixty feet long, she started to walk faster and faster and then a trot while I was pulling on the reins saying walk and then whoa, noting seem to work until I had to let go. Well I caught up to her said whoa and she finally stop. That is after she went through the fence twice, the tire hit one of the post and broke it, the tire unhooked and she got tangled in the singletree, all that while running around for a good hundred yard or more and I running and trying to get a hold of her.
So I untangled the singletree and unhooked her on one side but the other side I couldn’t get the trace chain out of the hook. So ground drove her to the barn with the singletree dragging, tied her up got a large screw driver prided the hook got the singletree free put it aside hooked the chain on the harness. So with that sense of resolve like you said Carl, untied her and went ground driving her in the paddock before getting back to the barn and start unharnessing her. She had worked up a good sweat. She ground drove with the singletree dragging and in the paddock with no trouble. While keeping her tied in the barn I went out and fixed everything up before letting her out.

What an experience, hope it does not happen again but like a fellow horseman told me “expect the unexpected”.

Well that really discouraged me. But I told myself tomorrow wich was yesterday, I ‘ll harness her and go ground driving, which I did and everything went well. At the begining she always want to start fast but she calms down and everything goes good. I ground drive for a good mile or so before I unharness.

The learning never stops, we are always in knew situations. I know I will have to try the tire again or a log. Will have somebody with me next time. Tried to figure out what went wrong, nothing seemed to have spooked her? I put that tire back in the paddock, she knows what it is?

Right now working on a forecart, have a small scoot, with teflon on the runners, to hook her up to also.

Jen when I read your story last night and how you handle everything, it puts all what happen in to perspective. It brings out that sense of resolve that Carl mentioned.
Everybody have a nice day.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

I just looked at my PMs and have two from that DennieeAdamz. Deleted them right away.
Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Hi Rod & Rod44,
I’m not far behind you guys. Oficialy retiring end of june.Old is just and appearence. We maybe getting older but we refuse to grow up:D.
Always young at heart.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Hi Rod and Rod44,
you two being far apart seem to be good look alikes. Both have nice looking teams and the same wagon.:cool:
Mike

[Michel Boulay]

HaHa!
well I just had a good laugh.:):) Nevermind Carl when I just realized what I have done, by posting my reply I saw my smilies. Feel kind of dumb, but now I know. I guess the more I post the more I’ll discover.:D

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Hi Carl,
how do we get to put the smilies in a post?? I see many of us can’t post them right. Special program or something we have to do in the settings?? If anybody knows. I know it is not that important but when you can’t do something on a computer its :confused:ing and sometimes its just a small adjustment and :p:):o thanks.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Hi everybody,
one project that I had was building a logging arch. This thread which brought good discussions from everyone, really helped me in getting a good idea of what is most practical for me. Pictures give you a good idea but not everything. Carl would it be possible to PM Les Barden’s contact info as well? Looking at some of your pictures, you use it for pretty much everything.

I really like the way you discribed what you did in the woods, having the versatility of using the arch in certain situations and then the scoot or sled.
I really don’t have big size trees like you have and forest around here is pretty thick. Like you said big size trees you hook them by the top.

It always comes down to what your personal preference and situation is and having this thread to help you decide is great.

Pictures that you all show are in a forest that has lots of space between trees and well maintain, so maneuverability is good the situation must be different in thick forest. What is used in that situation?

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Hi elke,
just watch the swiss film on working horses. Very interesting, nice to see the difference in harnesses compare to the ones we have over here. Also to listen to what the horse trainer had to say about being calm and not to show any emotion to the horse. Much like what Carl had to say in the thread about training horses. thanks
Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Hi everybody,
this is one interesting thread, not being able to read it all at one time, I finaly finished reading all of it today. Dreaming of being in evryone’s shoes one day, makes me realise that I have quite the task in front of me. I will certainly digest everything that has been said. I am learning from every one of you, love to hear about all your experiences, but know that I will have to go through my own. I love looking at pictures that you ad to your post they complement what you are trying to say or explain.

Carl did any kind of distraction or situation let you be in a sort of panic where the horses didn’t or did freak out? Or anybody else gone through for that matter? I’ve been reading Maurice Telleen’s book, some parts more than once, gives me good info, but certainly not the hands on experience that I will have to go and get.

Being a Phy. Ed. teacher and trying to show kids how to do basic things like throwing and catching a ball, needs patience, understanding and observation of the mecanics of the said movement. So I have some understanding of what I am up against. After 30 some years in a gym I don’t consider myself the expert but a person of experience and often enough some rookie will give me great idea of what to do in some instances.

Maybe some knucklehead will give me an idea of what to do with my horse or what not to do, but it will always be up to me to decide how I will put in into practice in my own situation. I am lucky to have somebody close by that has a team of Clydes and ponies and expect to go get some experience there. I have the skidoo trail and ATV trail, crossing my property, not always in use, so I have a trail to use. We have an Agriculture Fair close by in Ste Marie de Kent, Kent county N.B. They have a horse pull, a team, four,six,eight in hand driving competition, judging of horses, cattle. That is all at the end of august.

Being far from each other this community brings every one of us closer together.
Mike

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