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I got it figured out how to load off my cell

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Never thought of that, thanks brad

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anyone here have a cell number I could text you the pic of my mare. I cant get it to up load.

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I have some wood I’d like to haul and the snow is pretty deep. thought that just 2 would get tired out. I tried hooking them on my work sled i use to make a groomed trail and they weren’t able to move it, I think its cause of all the frozen clumps of dirt on the bottom ( picked it up with a loader so it was free.) and there was a fair amount of snow on the top of it still.

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everything thing sits fine until your down to the buckle, I’ve been told brown collars break in easier, I have a pic on my phone but I cant get it to upload. I don’t know if you can bend hames or how you would do it

My next question is how much of a space should you have on the bottom? I’ve noticed on some of my horses there’s almost no gap at all and then some there is quite a bit. The two adjustable collars I got from the same guy I got the heavy leather harness I put on my bigger team. I got the harnesses, the two adjustable collars, 2 old farm harnesses and a heavy white oak bob sled for 1200 both of the harnesses were REALLY dry and I took them to the amish and they soaked them in oil and let the sun bake them then would dip them again, I’m going to drop them both off again this spring for another oiling, the Collars he used with these leather harnesses, had a team of belgian mares one die’d out of nowhere in harness just flopped over dead and the other one passed a few years back and he was just looking to sell his stuff, he still has a New Idea spreader I’d really like to get my hands on thats is all restored over there but he wouldn’t sell it to me yet. needs a new pole cause when the horse died she fell on the pole.

so now that I’ve gone way off track I’ll steer back on track, I feel as if I would have to bend the lower part in some, theres 8 inches from one hame to other on the bottom with the loops included, Would it help if I made the top strap a little longer a made my bottom tighter? so if I’d drop 2 holes on the top strap pick up two more holes on the bottom? Id say they are spaced pretty equal.

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Well I got this harness with my first Belgians I got and they are a little too small for them they had things added on to strech them out a little o they would work, I have a nice leather set I use on that team now I have a Belgian mare and two pecheron mares, when I got the Belgian mare there was a gelding with her but I took him back and made these harnesses I’m having game issues with on the mare gelding team, I have a deal worked with the guy who owned these perch cause he ran out of hay and had to sell them and I didn’t have much for money so we made a deal, I didn’t get their harnesses with them I have 2 adjustable collars I got for nothing when I got got bunch of horse stuff from a guy. The collars and hames are 24 26 adjable one collar in have set at 26 with a pad and the other is at 25 with out pad, ill post a pic, it also is on the brown leather collars that I have these issues with if that means anything the black ones fit fine

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Carl Russell I know what you mean, I have netflix and watched “Buck” a while back and was blown away, I know what you mean with the Ray Hunt comment.

I’ve been making them stand tied to a gate with a lead rope. Today I had them tied and they were turning in to each other butt to head, each way, getting tangled, pawing at the ground. It really don’t understand it, they are really nice and calm in the pasture but stand like to knot heads when tied. I don’t know if they want to come by me to be rubbed or what the deal is. They slowly stand ok after 10 mins. I had them tied a good 45 mins and then I started to fit harnesses on them cause I haven’t drove them yet, tomorrow I’m gonna try hooking them on a sled and see how that goes…

I talked with a farrier about doing a few ride alongs with him to see what his day is like and I’m thinking about going to school to learn how to be a farrier and hot shoe.

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I understand what you all are saying where the horse should respect you and stand there. I’m thinking of building some stocks and I don’t want to use it as a restraint but just as a tool to save my self.

to the people posting here what does a cost to get shoes all the way around a horse? are they kegs or bar stock? do you have any sort of added traction with them? studs, drill tech ext.

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I will be honest, I have never gone to any sort of a class, I watched a lot of stuff on the net and did some research.

The one guy I got my mare from put almost every horse of his in stocks, for two reasons I think, 1 he didn’t have to hold the hoof, 2, His stock was raised bout a foot or so off the ground so you wouldn’t have to bend over, I also know there were a few horses I would drug and they wouldn’t fuss then

I personally am in the middle of finding what I want to do for work, I have been thinking about going to MN horse shoeing school and becoming a farrier. I already have a strong welding background but that industry just really rubbed me the wrong way and the only way I would do any welding work is on my own not working for other people. When I was in the welding world I really missed my horses, I didn’t have time for them, I had other people taking care of them and it came down to me leaving my welding job behind or selling the horses and I cared too much about the horses to get rid of them.

This mare I was working on yesterday let me clean all her feet in the pasture with out a rope holding her, Her daughter and team mate would let me do the fronts but not her rears. I didn’t see them having such an issue with going in the barn and being tied until we were there and they were being crabs.

My belgians are real pains if they don’t have their team mate by them, as long as they are close to each other they stand really nice and don’t fuss

This is where I would like to be, I would like to start logging with horses, I also want to farm about 15-20 ac. of land with them, I’ve also been posting things on line locally about draft horses for hire for everything from wagon rides, weddings, digging food plots, gardens anything I’ve been able to think of using my horses for and making money with them I’m trying advertise. With all that being said I figured being I’m working horses if I ever was really slow it would be nice to have a back up, I first thought welding would be that but I just find theres too much work with all the different certs a person would be asked for so now I’m on the idea of being a farrier part time. I already know forge skills and I know a lot about heating metal, I also know a lot about different types of metal.

I’ve gone in to my career plan and drawn away from what my topic was but oh well.

thanks for the replys

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I had this happen to me last year, Frisian paint bread to a perch, I had her foal from the year before, bout the same time you lost yours is the same time I lost mine, I never could figure out what caused it… she had to been half way long cause there was a body. size of a small dog. Best of luck next year Don

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My parents rented out all our land to my uncle and I ended up running short on hay and had to buy some, I got it from a friend, last year it was strait alpha, being the summer was rather rough they planted oats in with it so they would get something, My horses like the hay with out oats more I think, Mainly becuase the oats hay is mainly just oats and not much hay. I alternate one day oat hay one day strait hay, I had some regular hay left over, they seem to like that.

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thats pretty odd, I know my parents had a few cows loose their tails in when they were out grazing and one would lay down and another would be standing next to them and step on their tail and when they would go to get up it would get ripped off. never heard of another animal chewing it off though!

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That’s not very long to milk! It took my parents 2 hours to do everything milking 36-38 cows with 5 units all manual, in a stanchon(sp?) barn.

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Gorge could you post pic’s of where you milk yours?

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If it was me building the power cart I would find a reffer unit 3 cyl. diesel, I know that a friend has a 3 cyl 20HP JD riding mower and they have that motor ref units and APU and they get 15K hours its a yanmar dont know the model

I know this isn’t a round baler. but I have a Farmall H and she isn’t no power house, dad has a JD 338 small square baler and I was bailing good size windrows according to Tractor Data the H was tested at 26 hp pto, and I know mine doesn’t make that much. I was in 2nd gear and steep hills to climb in the one field. I agree that Carl NY about cutting the Hp down on the tractors because They also have to drive it. When they dyno test them they arn’t running a PTO and driving across the field.

With that all being said at work I run a JD 568 and a 567 round balers with a Case IH 7120 (155HP pto) or 7130 (170HP pto). I have yet to make any of those tractors dog down when bailing, I you have more power than you can go for speed not that makes a difference how fast you work.

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