[j.l.holt]

where your horses walk starts with how wide you set you double tree. then the cross line side of your driving lines.

[j.l.holt]

I would gladly hay on shares with a responsible farmer. would not want my hay/ground put on back burner till they got ‘around’ to it. Made a list of all expenses one time involved with making my own, and buying won out hands down every time. My biggest down fall was help when weather was right. Seemed the haying help was working somewhere else when mine was ready. Is a shame to spend all the time and money just to bale poor hay. Figured when buying, only had to buy the good hay. But when baling your own, you got to take it as it is, good or bad, and make use of it.

[j.l.holt]

agree with the 3 1/2–4ft bar..seen both my self. but was told by old blacksmith who was cutting one down,,3 1/2 was plenty..or the two horse’s all would be 6ft and bigger. His thoughts were that a two horse mower should be just double that of a one horse. So that puts a two horse in the 7-8ft range..never seen any that long, even on old tractor pull types.

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if you work your horses a lot, you will need to feed the same as bale of hay aday. or 365 x 2.

now if you buy it baled,,bale it your self..or let them bale some of it them self’s, you will need to devide up the produceing land for what you decide to do.

then if you have other animals, figure their needs in to the mix.

[j.l.holt]

over heard a old man telling another ”they were having so much trouble with the weather they were going to dry it one bale at a time in the cloths dryer!”’

does that really work????

[j.l.holt]

I got mt. steep enough you cant walk/climb up no logging or anything with out big time rope work.

[j.l.holt]

anybody look at ‘galvines ridge’?

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I must of been lucky..i never had one’s wind cut back from a tight strap…I should of said that I know of. can’t see that happening.

[j.l.holt]

haying can be quite trying..we need it,,,we know we need it.. and is the only thing in farming that has to be done when its ready. all the other things can wait a week or so if need be. not haying.
lots of things can trip you up…everything from weather to twine,,to hired help. but when all the stars get lined up, and it goes in the loft, dry,,sweet,,and properly cured,,there is no better feeling to a farmer. knowing his stock will winter well, with plenty to hold you over if spring is late…and good hay can always be sold…a little extra cash never killed a farmer!
don’t make hay my self any more but love to drive by a well cured field and say to my self..”that smells like money” good luck guys/girls.

[j.l.holt]

had a few time that bridles were rubbed off..changed to a bridle that had two crown pieces and two throat straps…that took care of the rubbing off. now still had to watch for ‘hang ups”

[j.l.holt]

I know where theres a 10ac. sugar bush for sale. cabin/shack…lots of running water

315-276-6239,,,up state new York.

[j.l.holt]

had a horse one time that would pull your hair out..he would walk one step over on new plowing, and the next time you looked up he was stepping out on the land. But in the end the job looked ok. You had a hard time pointing out the spots where he was not walking where I really wanted him,’as four feet in bottom of furrow’.
lot of water over the dam now, bigger fish to fry, its all good.

j.l.holt

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wild millers
you speak of off horse being less graceful in furrow..i try to remember the furrow horse is really trying to walk a tight rope while keeping his balance and putting enough power into it to pull the plow.

[j.l.holt]

If your like the rest of us,we like a good job when we are done. If one of your horses walks the furrow better, that direction will look better when done. There for you get to liking that direction. I was faced with the same when using the two way plow. After much work and readjustment, I found it boiled down to how the job looked. Furrow left still turned over enough to say ‘its plowed’, but did not have the nice smooth flowing look as turning it to the right.This smooth look came from the horse walking steady in the furrow, never ‘stepping up’ or ‘out’.

[j.l.holt]

I get same run around..just gave up..have to resign up every month but atleast its painless and works.
figure if they want more members they would fix it. or at least reply..but this is about the third time I have made this known.

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