[fabian]

@Howie 24314 wrote:

Your side straps may be to tight.:)

That was my first thought.

[fabian]

ooops…embarrassing….
As a reader AND fan of the Conroy-book I should have known what “running like a V” is because he describes this behavior. But I was irritaded because he didn’t lose a word about it.

Thank you !

Wolfgang

[fabian]

@bivol 23718 wrote:

hey Wolfgang, how do your neighbours react to having oxen around, especially with a wooden yoke? i know wooden yokes are not common in Germany.

They are surprised and there is much to declare, HOW it works, WHY I use it a.s.o
You see: many occasions to talk with the folks 🙂

Wolfgang

hmm. when I regard the picture I get the feeling that I should have cleaned up my workshop before taking pics (or looking for another location)

[fabian]

@Howie 23675 wrote:

That is a very nice job on the yoke.

Thank you !:)

@Howie 23675 wrote:

BUT
I had a pair of Devon cows that could not back a big round bale of hay up into the feeder with their horns, but they had no problem with their britchens.:p

They are just women 😀

I saw the pics of that cows with britchen

@Tim Harrigan 23677 wrote:

I can see where it would be more comfortable for the team for some tasks like drawing wagons and carts downhill and it would make backing things easier.

I try to do my best in making it the team as easy as possible.

@Tim Harrigan 23677 wrote:

Makes sense.

EVERYTHING I do makes sense 😉
(but not EVERYONE in my environment recognizes the sense)

Wolfgang

[fabian]

@Tim Harrigan 23667 wrote:

Do I understand correctly that you are using britchen with a standard double neck yoke? Why do you do that?

I know that a well trained team can hold up or back a load with its necks.
but my opinion is that even for a well trained team it is easier to do this work (holding up or backing a load) with britchen. therefore I never drive my team(s) without britchen when they pull a load witch can slide them into the heels.

Wolfgang

[fabian]

first of all.
thank you all for the compliments 😉

@Roscoe
yes, on the backside are rings for the britchen
the wood is spruce. I know. a soft wood. but for my applications it works.
I took 7 boards of spruce and 2 boards of multiplex plywood

@Tim Harrigan
the bows are 9”
for the draft point I use this:
http://www.siepmann.net/siepmann_shop.php?catebene1=160&catebene2=1600&action=show_product&product_code=321203&showpage=2&category=1600

Wolfgang

[fabian]

is cyber-flirting forbidden in this forum ??? 😮

no matter, I’m not against it 😉

Wolfgang

[fabian]

@mitchmaine 22706 wrote:

hello wolfgang, very nice looking dumpcart there. are the blocks behind the wheels a brake?
if so, how is it applied? or does it have another function.

mitch
pretty country, by the way.

Thank you.
The “dumpcart” ist built from the rear axle of my waggon with a simple wooden chest on it .
the blocks are the brakes. I use them, when unloading the cart. but I think it wouldn’t be necessary. The team makes no movement when I unload the cart.
I have a pic attached . I hope you can see how it ist applied.

@Vicki 22709 wrote:

Lovely! Handsome cattle (and driver)

Thank you.
You should see me in a smoking. Then I’m much more handsome than in the clothes at the pics 😉

@Vicki 22709 wrote:

and I’m coveting that cart.

everyone covets the cart, no one the driver 🙁

Wolfgang

[fabian]

some new pics from today. yesterday we had new snow. in parts it was a challenge to walk through the deep new snow.
But we did it !

[fabian]

@Tim Harrigan 22536 wrote:

Looking good with that North American style neck yoke!

meanwhile I’m a confident user of the neck yoke.

Three-pad-collar never, neck yoke ever ! 😉

@Tim Harrigan 22536 wrote:

I like those Pinzgauer cattle. 😀

I do so also 🙂

P.S.: did you see my video on youtube ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K6k194Siik

[fabian]

I feel relieved to hear that Abe only was lame for a time. When I saw that he was not at the Moda gathering, I was in fear he could be dead.

Wolfgang

[fabian]

no matter if the big ox should be the off ox…..
no matter if the head should be kept high……
tried this evening a switching of the team and it doesn’t work…..
Fred ist dominant over George, he horned him and George responds better……
Since I’m not an absolute greenhorn in training of cattle, I made the experience that it works better to have the dominant ox as neigh ox…..
so I have more control over him……
and if George wants to keep his head down while working : I don’t care.
They chose their place in the yoke themselves and now they must learn to live with it.;)

Wolfgang

[fabian]

@Vicki 18397 wrote:

My off, my low-head, is also my no. 2 ox and I wonder if he is intimidated by the dominant near ox to keep his eye and horn just a bit lower.

So it is with mine …..

[fabian]

@Tim Harrigan 18390 wrote:

Have you tried a three pad collar?

I have tried it a couple of years ago with one of my cows,
but I’m known in Germany as “being not a friend of it”.
Its correct adjustment is to difficult for my small brain 😉

@Tim Harrigan 18393 wrote:

That is a good question. With my team it is the off ox who likes to carry his head low.

would it be worth the try of changing the positions, only for getting a result ?? :rolleyes:

Wolfgang

[fabian]

found a new “oxen”-video and want to share it with the other oxdrovers here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Y8y9BsPHw&feature=related

Wolfgang

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