[Neil Dimmock]

You can use an Ox for any job that you can use a horse for!! Any!!

[Neil Dimmock]

Ox usual chew cud at rest, horse saddles work but a mule type work better because of the breeching and breast collar set up, they can be ridden until there legs where out , just like horses. Most get to heavy after 10 years, You sure are game on the Ox, to bad your so far way I could help you out a lot.
Neil

[Neil Dimmock]

Many many do use horse harness with very little changes, but it always bugs the purists, the collar used is not a refitted horse collar but a collar made for OX, and they do not sore the Ox because there padded unlike a old bare wood yoke!!!!

Neil

[Neil Dimmock]

@Roy 289 wrote:

I have seen horse collar used on an ox but the result was a sored ox! If you want to work an ox single then I’d use a single yoke with britchen. A steers neck and sholders are just too different from an equine to use the same rig.

What bunk. yokes sore Ox not collars

[Neil Dimmock]

Pole strap is not ripped just unbuckled, should work in the Museum though!
Neil

[Neil Dimmock]

Every once in a while all of us take chances by setting our lines down and hope they stay and a buck or grouse don’t jump up and startle your team!! Just remember your taking a chance and treat it as such, some tie up to a line peg and drop a tug, only works until your down hill a little, some tie to the wheel around the axle but it can unwind if they back first. the only safe place is in your hands, so know your teams limits and take darn few chances and let your lines down as a last resort and not as a regular practise and never when your life depends on it
Neil

[Neil Dimmock]

I used one that had rods welded down from the top to a ring base, looked good but the first horse to push hard on it tipped it over and stuck his foot through the rod cage then flipped out with this hoof stand stuck on his foot. I built mine out of a pipe and flat plate with a half moon on top, no more problems, its about 18″ of pipe and about 16″ of plate, A buddy made his out of a old disk blade and it cut a horse bad so he welded a pipe around the edge

[Neil Dimmock]

Way kewl!!!!! Glad to help, just remember ( Check Your Tack First ) Any time bud
Neil

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@Carl Russell 2411 wrote:

Sorry Neil, on dial-up I just can’t get a good viewing. And it’s another rainy day. I could use a good video. Thanks anyway, Carl

Ya dont know what your missing!
Neil

[Neil Dimmock]

Thanks!! I think? good to hear from you again my southern Friend.

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This one went super

[Neil Dimmock]

Thanks we try!
Neil

[Neil Dimmock]

Check your tack first, I find more than half the time its a stretched tug or a lump in the collar or lines are out of wack and all the time people had been wracking there brain’s for a new toy that will solve the problem, it take time even after you found something that might be the problem for the horse to re adjust it self.Let me know what you find and well go from there.
Neil

[Neil Dimmock]

Tie them up! we tie at the threshing machine, manure spreaders, pulling logs with a long wait, bathroom breaks, teaching teams to stand, etc, and after 40 years of going to wagon trains and trail rides , threshing, driving comps horse shows, you name it I have never seen a tied up team runaway, Lots And Lots of ( Train to stand teams) but never seen a team hooked up and tied up hurt or hurting any one else
Neil

[Neil Dimmock]

I leave the halters on when there at work and tie with them when I need to walk away, And No Its not dangerous the leave the halter on if the halter is fitted properly the only thing dangerous is not having them on when needed
Neil

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