[fabian]

@Tim Harrigan 17802 wrote:

but in general I would guess the draft would be about the same as with a logging arch.

That was also my consideration, adding some power (but how much ?) needed for lifting the load.

Thank you for your extensive answer.

Wolfgang

[fabian]

@mother katherine 17737 wrote:

I love these guys. We have good times together.
oxnun

I love my yearlings also . 🙂
And they love me.

Wolfgang

[fabian]

depending on my profession I have a steam tube for bending Rattan. If I heat it enough I will get even pressure on it.
It will need some experiments but be sure that I will report the results here. 😉

Wolfgang

[fabian]

@ Tim Harrigan: I think that I read something like that (the bark could help to prevent splitting) in the book of Drew Conroy

@Howie 16976 wrote:

The bark replaces the iron band,BUT, although it helps a great deal it is far from 100%. It helps a lot more if you are bending them green rather than with steam.:confused:

And what’s with bending green AND with steam ?
I have the occasion to get a wind-felled ash this week.
I think that I will try both: without band with bark and with band without bark. 😉

Wolfgang

[fabian]

@Tim Harrigan 16862 wrote:

Look great! Are they Pinzgauer? Ich mochte mein Deutsch war so gut wie dein Englisch.

Thank you Tim !
Yes they are Pinzgauer.
If the sentence you wrote is not the only one you know in German, your German is as well as my English.;)

Wolfgang

[fabian]

@sanhestar 16438 wrote:

from what I know was Fabian butchered last year.

So it is.
But he is the first animal I butchered for whose butchering I am sorry.
he was very calm, busy and quick moving, though he was small .
But after the birth of the twins I don’t have the place in the barn for him, but the place in the freezer.
I set his name behind mine because not every one here knows me under MY name. The choosing of his name as nickname here was the adoption of a tradition of many teamsters. I won’t never do so a second time.

Wolfgang

[fabian]

@Joshua Kingsley 16429 wrote:

If I ever tought My steers to jump My dad would have my butt in a sling…. I can see it now a quiet day in the pasture for the cows and one of the steers decides the poly wire is just low enough and bang out goes the rest of the herd.

Joshua

:):):)

I (!) would never teach my cows or steers jumping. I once had a heifer which enjoyed jumping WITHOUT getting it teached. If any animal was out of the pasture it was her. And when I came, to fetch her back to the pasture and she heard me, she jumped very elegant over the fence like a horse. And two hours later, if she wanted, she was outside again. This heifer hadn’t a long life in my small herd. 😉
What Anne does may work, but I don’t want to have cattle that lost the respect for the fences.

Wolfgang (Fabian R.I.P.)

[fabian]

Some of the pics from above in a bigger digital resolution…..

[fabian]

But Scott could use the oxen to herd the highlands from one pasture to another like the Spanish “Fight-Bullbreeders” do with their Berrendas.;)

[fabian]

Thank you Rod for posting the pics.
I’m going to build a similar cart in May. For now it is to cold for me to work outdoor .;)

[fabian]

@Howie 14491 wrote:

Fabin
Those are nice pics:)

I hope that you enjoyed my video on youtube also.:)

@Howie 14491 wrote:

That is sure a nice glove dryer that you have there.:p

I learned this method from Tim Harrigan.;)

[fabian]

thank you for the link to the pic with the “Steimel-Oxen” 🙂

[fabian]

After a long break from work, our cows were finally allowed to get out of their barn and stretch their legs. As seen in their speed, they were looking forward to this day 😉
Both walked pretty well (as usual) and pulled even better

you’ve got to click on the links and have them run parallel; the first is the music, the second shows our trip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2Ly_WWTlM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K6k194Siik

Howie, please have mercy 😎

[fabian]

@Howie 14102 wrote:

Heifers make fine working cattle, BUT they are females.;)

So it is !
I do not have enough experience with steers because I had up to now only one I worked with and the pair I now begin to train is to green for saying something about their behaviors. But I have enough experience with cows and heifers that I can say they can be very bitchy sometimes, even when in heat. As Howie said: They are females ! 😉

[fabian]

@CharlyBonifaz 13918 wrote:

leaving less at castration time means less on the scales at the butchers

That’s not a question of importance. 😉

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