[Haflinger Puller]

Donn,

If you can afford to why don’t you take a couple of acres out of production and plant Alfalfa. The roots go down about 15-20 feet, break up the hard pan, bring up minerals from deep in the earth, and gives you 4-5 harvests of hay a year, (about 4 to 5 tons of hay an acre) depending on the climate. Alfalfa does this all the while building your soil back up, and you not having to invest in a tool you’ll only use once in while at great expense in purchasing cost.

Alot of people don’t take into account how long that land has been farmed up there depending where you live and how long it was settled, nearly 400 to 500 years. The ground we farm has been going on over 100 years now, and we are taking ours out of production to build back up. I don’t know if you have blister beetle problems in New York, but here in Oklahoma high quality alfalfa hay can go from $7 to $10 dollars a bale. 25 -30 bales each cutting = $700 to $1000 dollars a year.

I love this forum. We can give each other suggestions and not cost anything other than experience that we each have gained over the years.

[Haflinger Puller]

My leather lines were made of a little heavier leather than what I was used to and was really stiff. If you oil them down and get them limbered they work well, but I still say go with the Beta.

[Haflinger Puller]

Aaargh!!

I purchased a set of St. Paul Saddlery about 10 years ago, and still use them for parades and field work. They are a light set, but with that said, I had let a friend use my harness with her two Haflingers which each weighed about 1200 pounds when they ran off from her, DEAD BROKE & BOMB PROOF. That harness stayed on them all the way, and the only piece of equipment that was damaged was by me when I had to cut the hame strap to get the horses back up from being tangled up. St. Paul Saddlery put nylon in my traces ten years ago. While my dad was alive he told me that it was good harness, and that he would have used it when we logged for Weyerhauser in Northern Arkansas back in the 70’s.

Looking back, the only thing I would have done different with my set of harness was to not get the leather lines, but go with the Beta.

[Haflinger Puller]

Hi Don,

If you are looking for a small stud, in the range you are looking for check the Haflinger web site for the Haflinger Stallion, Nieman Marcus. He is close to your area as he is standing in Ohio, I live in Oklahoma. He stands 15.2+ hands and over 1300 pounds from what I have heard and read. This beast beat all comers at the Ohio State Fair Draft Horse show. I have no connection with the horse, but he is something to see and I will breed to as soon as I can find someone who is competent enough to perform AI without having to take my mares off the farm.

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