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Neil Dimmock
Participant@Marchand 1756 wrote:
Ol’ coon-azz in La.told me in the ’60’s (while we’s grocery-shop’n mud-bugs on a bayou & samplin’ some home ethanol):
“Whut-chu’ know about laugh’n…unless you know all about cry’n….”My ol’ sainted Daddy come down…when I couldn’t find my ego with both hands….& an Instructional Video….I’d lost my ever-day horse…&/or thanks to the Barbie from Hell….offer’d Comfort..like his ol’ Dad, ad-inteneum:
“Son…It’s your Own Dang Fault…..It only happens to them,….that’s got ’em…..
Translate(for those , whose ‘puters ain’t set on Archaic Southern Anglish)
“If you can’t grow your britches up high enough to lose anything you got…woose-out…& don’t have it…or any giggles along the way…”
Ol’ Papa Hemingway took a 12 ga. for breakfast insteada’ coffee…that blue day…over one damn ol’ horse…..Me?…I better Ape & Clown……..??????? dang son what are you smoking?????
ParticipantStory’s are not lies, just story’s!! I thought you were looking for humor? If you are asking about runaways then you are asking the wrong person, you don’t get to drive 46 by having runways!! some times when I putting a new 6 together things get all tangled up but training keeps them put until we untangle, and some times when starting a new trainee they get upset or just plane freak out but with the right training tools they are held in place until it passes. started over 500 trainees and no runaways so I would guess it works, The closes to a runaway I ever had in the last 30 years of driving is when a @#$@ driving a silage truck was in a hurry and thought it would be fun to chase me down the road, the moment that he stoped chasing they stoped running, never lost control they just didn’t like the very loud motor revving at top speed with no mufflers, I come from a Long line of trainers and Have been taught how to train horses so there are no runaways, I have road through a few when I was to stupid to know better, buddy had snaps on his lines and a hook and run trained team, another one didn’t tie his rack down and he hit a snow bank with a full load of Xmas celebrators on, most fell of right away some were hurt and I tried to help and almost got killed for my efforts, Makes you double your efforts to not see another, Sorry to disapoint, And I keep my humor to my self, OK
NeilParticipantOK! I was on a wagon train in the cut arm valley just south of the white mud hills, we had been on the trail for a week and had 4 more days to go, the novelty of riding had worn off on the green horns and the team was under full load and off in that zoned out space horse with a long day ahead get, the wagon ahead of me was one of those almost a wagon substance with plastic pipe for hoops and a blue tarp, and the one behind had a team of little fat feords( he, he) and with a little help from a tow rope and a big hook on the back of my wagon they made it up all the hills so far when a big old mean and half blind rattler struck out and bit down on my ,on my … wagon pole!!! by the time we got the team unhooked we had to saw off the pole to save the wagon !!!! He He!! Ha HA!!
Neil
ParticipantIts in no small part that I get what I get because of who I am and what I do with my horses, every one that has came and bought horses from me hunted me down and came to look!
Breeding top hitch horses is like winning the lotto, only one in 15 show promise, prefect gate etc, but if you breed for a easy mind and not just for looks then they are very useful horses any way.
Breeding fees range from 500.oo for a grade mare to 850.oo for registered,
papered foals that are of good confirmation and easy minded always bring a premium, 20% to 50% more.
Right now I have 8 reg mares 6 of breeding age, but papers don’t mean a thing if there not correct conformation.
the market is a little slower right now but selling horses is like the stock market, as soon as it looks a little ruff every one whats to get out and they flood the market, as soon as the herd has cleared out then the price come back upParticipantIts a 1932 acme stook loader and I have 4, it doesnt work worth a dang for hay but it sure does with bundles, its more dangerous to drive to any city in a car than riding the wagon, there’s a crows nest in the corner to keep them form harms way,
NeilParticipantIts a 1932 acme stook loader and I have 4, it doesnt work worth a dang on hay but nothing loads bundles like it,
ParticipantIts a hydraulic power pump that I bought from a farm store called princess auto, it works with a 12 volt bat, and I fitted it with Pioneer coupler ends and it came with a remote switch that I mount were I need, the batters I get from the car wreckers for 30.oo and two will last for a day of two before charging, I have bought two on Ebay for around a 100.00 and fitted them to the other carts we use, if you Google Prin auto and down load there catalog you find one there to see what I am talking about, in fact I think that’s what there used for is a snow plow on a pickup
NeilParticipantWell there not all hitch horses for sure, we have one farm chunk blood line that goes back in our family for 100 years, Right now I have three studs, one big hitchy guy we call Rowdy,18+ hands and all move, he is my top biller and Breeds about 15 mares each year, but I have Rock and he is as farm chunk as they come, Right now his breeding pays for all the trimming and wormer for the rest and pays for the pasture that I rent for him, them we have a Young one coming up and I think I’ll start him with 5 or so mares this year.
We pasture breed all the mares, I have got more to do than stand around and watch that, so Good manners is a must, aggressive studs I will not keep. all three are broke to drive and we do in the off season.
Right now with the new foals we have 45, 18 broke teams, all home raised and trained, were hoping for 15 foals this year,5 hitchy and the rest are chunks. last years foals sold for 1800.oo each, I advert them on the net and they were all gone in 48 hours. the teams that I sell start at 10,000+ so they more than pay for them self’s they make me a living, the only sponsor that I can stand is my self!
NeilParticipant:)Hi, JL how are you, did you get the cart done? Marchand I like the link to myspace, top theme song been humming it all day!
ParticipantThanks, glad you injoyed. The biggest I have driven is 46!
ParticipantWhy thanks you! we try! how about your self? got horses?:)
ParticipantI use lever bits because I like to adjust the line tension in my hands that was when I drive two to 46 I can keep the horses up in the bit with out pulling my Hands off, you cant do that with a bar bit and wire bits are just plain severe and if there is a problem there is always blood with a wire bit and that’s well on the way to hard mouth, I have started more than 500 horses to harness and right now I have 18 teams all home raised and trained, no hard mouths and no runaways, in fact the only time I was even close is when a @#$@@% chased me down the road with his big silage truck because He way in a hurry! Runaways don’t have to happen and if you cant train them with out having one then you have a trained teem and not a time bomb, I have retrained teems that have runaway and you never get them to the point of perfection that you can with out one, lever bits help with line pressure but will not hold a runner, training and only training will do that. Bits are only as severe as the one on the lines but some just cant be held loose enuff.
NeilParticipantThey are the best at raking hay, but they do take some practice to get the rows strait, we at least good enuf for a baler,
ParticipantNere Edmonton Alberta Canada
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