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@Ixy 25117 wrote:

IMO, very wise! I wish we could pull out 🙁

X 2 so do i its a nightmare there rules and regs are made up by carzy people.

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@Does’ Leap 25784 wrote:

SJF -Small Farmer’s Journal (great quarterly magazine on farming and draft animals. DAP -Draft Animal Power (this website). Sorry for the acronyms.

George

Oh i see , thanks for that !

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@Does’ Leap 25739 wrote:

I just received the latest issue of SJF. Erik, beautiful job on the bakery wagon! I have read about the project on DAP, but it was great to see it in print and read about the process. Hat’s off.

George

What is SJF ??????:confused: and DAP ????:confused:

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They look a bit like a small Jersey that we have over here but i think the Busa look as if they will be a lot hardier than the Jersey cow

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@jac 25753 wrote:

I recon 4 of your Fell’s could manage a plow like that. They never caught on over here in the horse era. The British farmer was afraid of change. Our American cousins led the way with inovations.. though Scots did the initial inventing 😀
John

If i could get a team of 4 fells ploughing with a plough like that oh man it would be better than winning the lottery for me !!! where did you get the plough if you don’t mind me asking ? i was at the Scottish ploughing champs at jedburgh and thought the traditional brittish ploughs looked awful hard work , i had designed a plough with with wheels and a seat in my head before i got home:D and for the life of me couldn’t understand how it never happened at the time but as you say old farmers frightened of change !! brilliant really brilliant !!

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Thats fantastic yoke jac !! Ive often wonderd if you could get a plough like that for horses now i know you can, brilliant keep the pics comming ,shame to be ploughing that lovely grass in i could lend you sheep to graze it all off 🙂

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@Scott G 25656 wrote:

Fellman,

Welcome!

Do you know Jennifer Morrisey? She lives not far from me and is very involved in promoting Fells. If you want, e-mail me and I’ll forward you her contact.
Sorry no i dont know of that lady ? you could pass on a link to my web site to her if you like http://www.towfordfellponies.co.uk
-Scott

@near horse 25663 wrote:

Okay – Now I’m feeling like there’s some sort of plaid movement a foot here. Over the last few days we’ve been overrun by Scots here on the board, (okay 2), then Erika starts referencing Braveheart in another thread today. And John, hmmmm, he may have been the first one to “infiltrate” DAP, a sort of mole clearing the way.

So, what will happen next? Please no haggis!:eek:

Seriously – welcome, welcome, welcome.

I don’t know of Fell ponies but it is always surprising at how many different “breeds” or “races” of horse/pony there are in Europe that we don’t hear much about. I recently saw some of the Dartmoor ponies but don’t know much about them either.

Can you describe the fell area from which I assume the name is derived? Is it much like the area in Dartmoor?

The area where fells are native to is cumbria, northumberland & scottish borders its a very hilly area similar to Dartmoor but steeper if you look on my web site in links and go to the fell society web site it tells you everything you would need or want to know about fells , there a fantastic pony they realy are very quiet, clever strong and sure footed also exceptionally tough ponies we have had the hardest winter of a generation 2 feet of snow -24 and our ponies winter out without any feed at 1000 ft above sea level and now in march are getting to fat :eek::eek:

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@jac 25645 wrote:

Its funny but im a Scot who prefers Jack Daniels:D… no I for one do not think you are “off your head”.. I am beginning to think the days of the 18hand draft horse is numbered.. a bit like the big engine. A team of fells will amaze you with the work they can do. Good luck with it… where abouts in the Borders are you BTW.. I have a daughter at Kelso..
John

Small world eh !! my local towns are jedburgh and kelso i might know your daughter 😀 http://www.towfordfellponies.co.uk

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Hi, thanks for the replies you are all very polite ! Dont get to much scotch in yer veins Carl it makes you do silly things and gives you a bad head(i know what you mean) Surprising how many Scott’s on here before me hello to you, i breed fell ponies but have a increasing desire to use them for small tasks on the farm just for fun relay I’m going to break a 3 year old to harness very soon , i have never done this before but hey we all have to start somewhere she is very well handled as she has been shown in-hand a lot since she was a foal , im thinking of buying some webbing harness to start with a leather collar the small jobs im thinking of would be a bit of chain harrowing and shifting the odd log or three, what do you think ?? am i off my head ??? ive put my web site in my sig so you can have a look.

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