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wishing all a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous and Safe New Year.

dean

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welcome, good to see another canuck.

dean

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if i were down that way i’d jump all over it. have you had any offers yet, looks fantastic.

too far away dean.

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thanks for the quick replies folks, what brought this to mind was a couple of years ago i had my son at the local fair/fun-day where a man had his Newfoundland Pony hitched to a self made cart ( looks like a Barden cart but i didn’t know it at the time) and i thought it would be a good rig and if you needed to haul any gear, etc you could put a ball hitch like on an auto to use a utility trailer while you rode up on the cart. then i wondered about using farm implements after seeing smaller implements made for atv’s.

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@grey 16108 wrote:

We got a spot of sun today so I thought I’d drag old “Buttercup” out and take her portrait.

She’s an 8″ Oliver 10N with a brand-new red oak beam. The beam that was on her was completely dry-rotted, as well as riddled with powder-post beetle damage. It was still in one piece, though, and I used it as a template for this new beam.

The share and the landside are both pretty badly worn, so she isn’t the easiest-going plow ever put to soil, but it gets the job done.

I was at a plowing event last weekend and someone told me I needed to get some stenciling done on the side of the beam. Whaddaya think? Flames? Pinstripes? Valvoline logo? 😮 😀 Somehow I don’t think that was what he had in mind….

how about ” Draft Animal Power” or ” REAL HORSE POWER” if your using horses, i guess that would look funny with oxen pulling.

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anyone know where to get plans/ directions for one of these? looks like it might pretty easy to make if one knows how to bend wood.

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dean

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welcome aboard, im across the “brook” in Newfoundland. no room for animals yet but i am interested in what you all are doing and how you are doing it.

dean

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thanks for the insight Carl. i was thinking, inspired by the laminated yoke thread about useing birch as a core and filling out the remainder of the yoke with spruce or fir.

sound good?

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dean

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ever have a moment when you read and only half processed? i think i just did:rolleyes:

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patrick wrote;

Actually, it is probably more traditional than many care to realize, as back in the day, they’d use whatever they had to pull what needed pulling. I do know that when I first started asking around at my local fairs, and even at Fryburg of all places, I was greeted with laughter and even hostility a few times, when I had the temerity to ask about something as foolish as working a single. Lucky for me, it hadn’t even occured to me yet to even think about stooping so low as to ask about using a single, female

actually the animal in the picture was a cow not a male at all. BTW the picture is one we are giving to a retiring friend. i remember when i was small, hearing the old folks talking about so and so having to go out to milk the cow before the men went into the woods to haul firewood and saw logs in the winter, it was important to milk the cow first so that the udder wouldn’t hang to low and snag on brush or something injuring the animal. most folks had Newfoundland Ponies but some had other animals for draught work even the family goat could haul wood and some would use Newfoundland dogs. so people used what ever worked.

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thanks Howie. actually i was looking at a picture, a painting, from years ago here in Newfoundland of a milk cow hitched to a single yoke with the shafts of a sled loaded with wood that were attached directly to the yoke where you usually see the chain or traces. answered my questions on the spot and i spent quite a few minutes staring at that painting i can tell you. sort of ask and ye shall receive went through my mind.

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brother i hear ya. yer preaching to the choir as they say. id love to do the whole farm/homesteading deal but my DW isnt into it and she isnt working right now due to illness so i keep plugging away learning and planning.

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welcome aboard

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when i was small my grandfather kept a Newfoundland Pony and he only shod him when he was plowing or when in the woods in the winter due to the snow and ice. the rest of the time his horses were bare foot. in fact people used to let their horses loose in the summer to graze around the cummunity and mate in the natural way instead of getting a specific stud for a mare stallions gathered hareims and kept/mated them only if he was the best able to defend the mares. this is how mountian and mooreland ponies evolved to be one of the strongest, pound for pound of any equine breeds. and superbly suited to an island with limited graze, and winter feed. they do very well on hay in the winter even though thats thier busy season so to speak.

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the pratice of haveing a few beers after the work is done is a long standing tradition here in Newfoundland, but then we are as close to England as anyone can get in north america. both geographicly and culturally. so haveing a keg or cast on hand and for “trade” or “shares” would be a long standing link with tradition.

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