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@Dave G 15257 wrote:

Dear Friends,

I must admit I thought about zapping Skeeter for a fraction of a second and thought better of it. He is such a sweet puppy, after all. But, if I was going to give this thing to Sandy to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised.
Am I wrong? Was I wrong to think that? Seemed reasonable to me at the time…

Dave, Dave,…Dave. Thanks for the technical training. You have one lucky woman there. Certainly IMO you weren’t wrong, but to finish implementing your test, you shoulda invited over your second best friend for a bunch o’ beers and steaks.

Hilarious.

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We use rubber mats over concrete floor as well. I use tie stalls and put bedding down only if I turn them in for the night. Figuring the shavings to absorb the urine. They stay out except for the worst weather so I generally keep the mats bare for feed vet harness etc.. I was thinking that if I were to shoe them I should use a wood floor on top of the mats. By the way they are all outside looking east for the sun. It’s a might chilly in the Granite State this morning.

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Geoff,

Your “bale basket” the farmer I buy my hay from has one I think. He calls it a bale buncher. He drags it behind the baler and it catches the bales. When full he pulls a rope opening a gate on the back letting the bunch of bales pass through it and empty. he leaves bunches throughout the field then makes it easier to load a wagon. In my case anyway, it is much easier than traveling through a field loading singles.

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Hi George,

Don’t consider me an authority on the subject, and will learn from this thread as well. I have hitched my guys three abreast only slightly more than several times, just goofing off. We haven’t actually hooked to anything yet nor do I have a 3x evener. For what it is worth though I rig team lines from the outside horses to the middle horse and jockey straps from each line ring on the middle horse to the corresponding bit of both outside horses like it shows in the drawing on the link below. This is an article I read on the Rural Heritage website on that hitch by Dale Wagner. I picked up what little I know of the hitch besides my actual experiences using this.

http://www.ruralheritage.com/equip_shed/3abreast.htm

It works well for me while ground driving. When I tried to shuffle my horses to other positions in the hitch though the only issue I had was that my third who is the smallest and the least experience / training was not comfortable in the middle and had no trouble in showing me of his displeasure so back to the outside with him for now. And the size difference between my big ones and the little guy does impact the line adjustment to compensate for that difference

Hope I helped Looking forward to reading more on the subject that I can apply too.

Larry

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I don’t use them but a similar item is on page 41 of the Meader Supply Catalog. You can order by telephone they will drop ship to you. Hope this helps.

http://www.meadersupply.com/Publish/catalogs/tack_catalog/Tack-Catalog.pdf

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I agree with what is being said here too. I am strung tight by nature. I found out a long time ago that I am much more effective at communicating with my horses in a mellower state of mind. In fact I make a conscience effort to not just walk into the equine part of my life, and before I go through the fence I pause and physically effort a change of my personality to those characteristics. Especially after I return from my day job, a tough commute, and my bottomless cup o’ coffee. Sometimes it’s a struggle to accomplish but I notice the difference in the way they accept me back into the heard and how receptive they are to my commands and requests if I am successful.

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Awesome help. Great Ideas and I will check them out. I do have a surveyed plot plan with soil types. I have been on the Google Earth site but I am just learning how to use it to leverage its capabilities. I wasn’t able to manipulate it to my satisfaction. It seems as if it shold be able to do what is needed but I just haven’t picked up on how to do it yet. Maybe I can do this afterall.

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I met with the county forester yesterday. He was a lot of help to me pointing further down the road toward my end goal which is green certification in the American Tree Farm System. In my opinion I am not close yet though. It appears I have to do more ( a lot more) work on the documentation of my woodlot or a tract map. I have to pay more attention to accurizing the acerage and descriptions of my tracts. I think I can handle the wording to meet these requirements. But I was just wondering, I have a survey map with topographic and boundaries, internal landmarks and soil types. I also have an overhead view of the lot using google earth website but that is not accurate to any scale. nor do I have anyway to accuratley draw the tract boundaries that I am making after the fact. I think what he is looking for is a continuos kind of overlay plan all on the same scale. Is there any kind of user friendly shareware out there or maybe other good websites that you forresters may be familiar with to illustrate these types of requirements and tie them all together? It seems like this is the part of the management plan where paying a forrestor to do it would be worth the investment. Since I am familiar with going back to the drawing board a second or third time to get things right I am going to try again. but maybe to complete it I’ll need nelp in getting that piece done.

Thank you,

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Mark, I have one very similar want me to run it up to you to eyeball? It has a ring though not a plug in style.

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Donn,
I read your plan and I understand what you are trying to do and how you are going to get there. As I posted the other day I am going through the same thing at my place. I am trying for the “green” certification of the American Tree Farm System. On there Website they have a template sample.
http://www.treefarmsystem.org/ATFSManagementPlanTemplateandPreamble.pdf
I had a plan started in the same format as you do and broke it apart to fit in this and I found it to to be more helpful for me to understand the whole intent of the document but I don’t think it is necessary. I have spoken with a lot of people and it seems to prevail that a valid plan is what it is and it can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. It is expected that from time to time that goals and objectives may change and the plan may need tweeking to accomodate those changes. Methods and treatments may also change from time to time as well. So this plan should be a living changing document and really is never finished.

I am attaching my inccomplete rough draft also since you shared yours with us. Good luck and Merry Christmas to all.

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This is going to be a great thread Donn. I am going through exactly the same stage of the process as you are now. I will post more on this thread of what I am doing and how I am going about it later when I get to my other machine. Carl those books look like great references and you can bet your last dollar they go on my Christmas list.

Thank you,

Larry

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Les Barden has done the same thing in sepparating his harness and shows it in his D-Ring video.

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R,
I read your posts with interest and it seems to me that you are more than capable of harnessing a horse despite your height. My impression is that you will have no trouble getting it done. I am 5’9″ also with no problems harnessing. Wouldn’t stand on a bucket if I were you though, it potentially can be an accident waiting to happen.

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I have wondered about those same things too.

Larry

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Good advice Jason. That is my approach also. I have the same condition and several cheapo reading specs strategically stationed where I may need them throughout the old “Stonestead”. The vehicles, barn, toolbox, desk, and recliner come to mind.

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