[carl ny]

Without shafts you don’t have any way to keep your sled from running into your horse. that’s why I use an arch for all my skidding except the twitching. Also the sled will tend to go in a strait line instead of follow the horse.I don’t use hardly any thong without shafts or a pole,even my stone boat I pull behind the forecart.I do pull an old tractor tire when training a new horse,that’s about the only thing. JMHO

carl

[carl ny]

Screwed on would probably hold but I would mortice. Is this sled going to have shafts or just hook with singletree? Either way I would hook to the runners. JMHO Personally,I would use shafts.

carl ny

[carl ny]

Like Carl said,not the end of the world. I new a horse that was totally blind and still barrel racing and doing good. They just have to trust you like Carl’s mare does him.

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[carl ny]

looked kool…what Jean said,lucky kids to have parents that let them be kids. Show more.

carl ny

[carl ny]

I know I’m gonna get hammered for this,but here goes. Sounds like a woman…LOL
Actually,I have the same problem with my Appy. riding horse,and yes it’s a mare….

carl ny

[carl ny]

Say “go-devil” around here and you are talking about a splitting maul.

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[carl ny]

Looks better,collar still looks short to me ,wide enough,but short.JMHO

carl ny

[carl ny]

Grey,you could be right about the collar,hard to tell without being there.

fogish,your right.

CT, I usually run my tugs inside the loop straps and outside the backpad cinch. You could lower the loops by using one of those screw together chain repair links(never can remember what they’re called).

carl ny

[carl ny]

Plant with your grass mix and cut before the oats head out when still green.
Never hurts to be a little nuts…

carl ny

[carl ny]

Spider could go forward a little but not much.Best to get new shaft loops that fit tighter on the shaft and can be lowered a bit.Your shafts look long for your horse,are they draft size? The end of the shaft should be about at the point of shoulder.You might be able to fix this by lengthening the tugs and shortening the hold-backs.Also it looks like your collar might be a little small,if it is it will cut-off the horses wind. JMHO

carl ny

[carl ny]

I miss spoke on my last post. You want a LOW carb. diet for draft horses.Don’t know what I was thinking,I guess that was the problem,I wasn’t thinking.

carl ny

[carl ny]

Herd sour……I never worked with oxen but I have worked a lot of horses.If it was me I would completely separate them from the herd now.The longer they are kept with the herd the harder it will be.JMHO

carl ny

[carl ny]

My son built a “piggyback” arch that mounts on his regular forecart,it has the chain set up like the cart that Carl R was showing.We tried it out last saturday and it worked “slicker than snot on a doornob”.I’ll try to get some pic’s this weekend and post them here.

carl ny

[carl ny]

I never worked oxen but I would tend to agree with Mark. We had to train a large draft cross one time,she wanted to crowd you like that.My son made a stick with kind of a “dull” point.We held the stick so that every time she started to crowd you the stick poked her just in front of the shoulder.By the second day you didn’t need the stick very often. HTH

carl ny

[carl ny]

Way,way back when I was a kid,my dads harness never had a back pad.I also have an old harness that was cut down to fit ponies and it doesn’t have one either.Other than for a single or on a D-ring harness,I don’t think it is necessary.You need them for shafts and I think that it is easier to use them all the time ,rather than have to switch when you change from team to single with shafts.Years ago nobody used cruppers either. As for keeping up with your horses,you need a forecart so you can ride…JMHO

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