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Participanthi jac, greetings. i had a mare once sounds just like your horse. she pinned her chin to her chest and did her dance for half an hour out of the barn, and resumed it the minute we headed back no matter how tired she might be. just her nature. it bothered me too, but she was the best horse to work (especially single). she would go all day. she did her dance till the day she died, and i forgave her that small sin because she was so good otherwise. i don’t know. we all have our quirks. how does he work?
my family name was michel way back from scotland somewhere, but that was almost 400 years ago. sure would like to see it someday. thanks for joining up.Participanthey george, there is a “special” evener that pioneer sells and probably everyone else and you could of course make it yourself. it pins to your pole in two spots 9″ apart fore and aft. its a heavy clumsy thing but works good. mine isn’t adjustable anyway to give a horse some leverage or help against the other two. but you don’t have to move your pole. i wouldn’t go out and buy a third horse if i didn’t have to, but if you have one they become very handy in field work. you can just go and go.
Participanthey scyther, i don’t know if you said it there or not, but you have to check that horse on the jockey stick back as well so he knows to whoa. from the inside bit ring back to the britchin ring of the middle horse. if you plowing two way, he’s got to be one good horse to stay in the furrow, cause your not really driving him. some can.
Participanthey jen, on a two way plow, the horse on the same side as the share you are plowing with goes in the furrow. you must offset the pole. and adjust the pole by pointing the share towards the plowed ground with three. (into the land with two). on a walking plow, same way. the horse on the side your plow throws the soil drops in the furrow.
Participanti open my collars too. but i had an adjustable collar that we used once and slid it on and if your in that group, i’m with jen. slide it on buckle down and spin it. you can slip a pad in up on the thin of there neck but it’s a pain. be careful to wipe the face of your collar clean of salt and sweat for there eyes sake. that goes without saying, cause you won’t do it twice.
Participanthey matthew, i’m new here too, but welcome anyway. it’s a good place, full of good advice and friendly chatter. advice is free but you have to turn it into experience of course. sounds like you have quite a bit already. i’m just wondering how many of the old guys on this site wouldn’t trade all their experience tomorrow for a chance to roll out of bed without aches and pains? experience comes every day and youth leaves everyday. i quess that’s the price. enjoy being 30, eat the frosting first, and if you still have room eat your cake later. if you don’t mind, what was the name of your logger friend from maine and where did he come from? good luck with your farm and hosses. mitch
Participanttrouble with replacing an insurance company with another insurance company is that its still an insurance company. all the congress seems to be doing right now is giving insurance back to the industry only making it mandatory for everyone. the amish model is my favorite. no insurance company. if someone gets really sick every one chips in and helps, and if whatever you need doesn’t require money to fix it they help. but that system requires “faith” in the system to work. it might not work “out here”. i’d love to see something really change. but it still looks like a duck.
Participantcall me crazy but why bother with gloves. i used to fish lobsters for a living a long time ago and you spent every day soaking ringing wet. so gloves really didn’t matter except for redfish spines. i stopped wearing them and except for a really cold day don’t need them. it’ll hurt for a minute but you’ll get over it. much better grip on your lines. and who can run a saw with gloves?
Participanthey grey, thanks for the response. actually she’s never scratched. she’s never seen a vet, she’s been so healthy. this is new to her. i wormed ’em all a week ago just in case, and pulled her grain, and brush her well each morning. she enjoys the attention but i can’t say she is any better yet. ?????????
Participanthey donn, interesting thought. we all, humans and animals alike, use our 5 senses to “read” our surroundings and adapt accordingly. for safety reasons mostly,but for other purposes too. do you think, because we talk, that we gave up other skills we had before language, just because words seem to work so well. and that in reality horses, say, are reading us on levels we lost thousands of years ago. or traded for language anyway. and if we kept at it and trusted our senses we could actually redevelop a language without words we could use with our animals that was far better than the method we use. i think that we actually do, but don’t know it. what do you think?
Participanthey jason and jason, i didn’t see the obstacle course at lif as competition or carnival but more as a diversion from a mudded out woodlot. the guys pulled it together out of nothing in a heartbeat and it served as a great learning tool that day. teamsters tried their hands, tuning up their own skills on whatever level they were on with lots of help from all directions and turned a poor chance into an opportunity. even paul birdsal joined in and a good time was had by all. mitch
Participantcarl said it right. i like it back by the wood. but sometimes, molly, my itchin’ twitch hoss, loses her courage if she’s fetched up a little. and you can tell what they can pull or can’t. so i go up then and grab her halter and john, maybe she thinks i’m another horse, i don’t know, but things happen for about 6 feet and she’s fine and we go about our business.
Participanti think you hit it with community, carl. even tho the list of area horse farmers and loggers is growing into quite a list now, we still have to go 25 miles to find someone with working horses. before the chippers and fellerbunchers, there was a strong community with loggers. they wouldn’t have said so, but at least as bad as anything got you still had company and someone else who was in it with you. this website fills that same role. even if i can’t see faces or hear voices, i still think someone else is there. thanks for being there.
Participantgrey, it’s the first time in her long life with us that it’s ever happened. for that matter on any horse i’ve had. so i just don’t know what it could be. about diet, in the fall after 2nd cut we drop the gates and let the horses into the fields to graze. they like the swales so who knows what they eat. my dad would say if you give them enough good feed they won’t eat anything bad for them. we don’t clean their grain so its full of weed seeds??????
and thanks jean, i know what you mean about an itch. digging always makes it feel better and itch more. i might try that tea. thanksParticipantveted each spring. she’s a belgian. a photo wouldn’t show much. feels like the scrathes would.
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