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ParticipantI also agree with Carl and have considered that same thing he has for certain jobs. A little 1010 would be a good choice because you can get into them cheap enough to not force you out of the horse business . Even an old 1010 or something like it can be made to last a LONG time if you let the horses do most of the work. Save and pay as you go for equipment when ever you can , you do not want to have to make a payment and be forced to do thing you would not normally do with your animals or be forced into just running equipment.
Another thing to consider is cost of transport of equipment. If you have to pay to have a piece of equipment hauled to a job it takes a lot of the profit our of the project ,especially if it is a small project . There are a lot of ways to skin a cat . it will depend of what you are already equipped to do . What do you have to haul a tractor with , will you need a trailer to haul it , will you need to licence another truck and trailer to haul extra equipment? I am not saying to never make adjustments , just make sure it is worth the extra investment and do not stretch your self farther than you and your horses can stand.ParticipantThanks ChrisB, … every thing is a tool for the most part. I am the Lords tool i guess ….. he probably considers me about as handy as a splitting maul with a short handle lol. But I do what I can.. Taylor Johnson
ParticipantTim, I am glad that you are liking my articles . Tim compared to a lot of work out there one or two tanks of gas is more than doing a lot of jobs all day let a lone skidding it up with the horses after 😉 . Thanks for the complement Tim and let them know that you like it , I really like the Rural Heritage compared to some of the other reads out there. Taylor Johnson
ParticipantRick I am glad that you like it , thanks for reading. Taylor Johnson.
ParticipantNice vid Carl . Taylor Johnson
ParticipantSteve ,
I have an buddy who has a pioneer fore-cart with a blade for the back and that thing is great . He plows snow with it , spreads gravel ,and a lot more around his farm. He told me he really likes his and a good chore team is all he uses to run it. I envy this guy a bit because he has every toy made for the pioneer and well every thing to do with draft horses. Him and his brothers make some nice dump carts, round bail movers ,and …. well every thing . I am rabbit trailing here but I would say a good blade of some kind would do you well . Taylor Johnson
ps. My buddy is Amish so he really uses this stuff and puts it to the test.ParticipantI drove a Fjord horse with a Belgian for about a year out of pure necessity . It worked OK but there was some adjustments in lines and evener. The fjord was also a rammy little guy so I rigged an addition line on him that was not on my big horse for extra stopping power when needed. It was actually fun at times and I got some crazy looks . I also think that there are some different size horses that are actually matched well as far as moving goes. I will try and find pics of these to rigged up together . Taylor Johnson
ParticipantNice work , looking forward to the logging pics. Taylor Johnson
ParticipantLanny that is funny I have cousin that I use to log with that is 6’2” and has a 29” inseam . We are all upper body . Taylor Johnson
ParticipantLOL Tim he had a lot of names for me that we will not talk about … when he was mad that is. He is almost 6’4” tall and my arm span is as long as his and I am 5’9” .. he always thinks that is funny. Taylor Johnson
March 6, 2011 at 2:41 pm in reply to: Ronnie Tucker’s operation (Pics/Disc. Mules, Jerk line, loading logs w parbuckle) #66105ParticipantThe thing that use to get me was the medium size bolts. The small wood you could always just hand pile and the big logs ,well you could most generally get enough in a pile for a truck load even if you were just long chaining or block and tackling them into a pile. The stuff that use to give me fits was the stuff that was to big to hand pile and to small to use a cross loader or block and tackle to get enough volume done.
I started making ropes with slip hooks on each end and a steal ring that the rope was weaved though in the middle. I could put a few of these 8” 10” together and rap the rope around them hook the hooks and the ring allowed me to take up the extra slack in the rope. I could them hook my pull hook be it on a block and tackle or a cross load and pull it up on my truck. To make this more easy I would put some 3” or so polls down to lay the ropes in then roll a bundle of wood on top of the polls. These polls went right up to the ramps that the logs would ride onto the truck. Once on the truck the ropes with a little bit of help generally came lose to be use again but if it was stuck I just grabbed another one and kept going and got the stuck one when I unloaded the truck. You could also make adjust meant on rope placement to even loads as they were pulled up. If I were a better drawer of things I would illustrate but I am not so I hope this makes some since LOL. Taylor JohnsonParticipantWelcome and I for one am very interested in what you are doing. I think it is great that you are keeping bees and working dogs and goats in the city. The first thing I started using for a draft animal was a dog . I had a few dogs who could pull a Toyota truck when I was a kid. My wife has pictures of her Grandpa in Chicago in the early 1900s in a cart being pulled by a goat. I would like to see more pics , thanks for sharing . Taylor Johnson
ParticipantRick that is a good use of that old pulp, what kind of mill do you use ?
Scott they put the road bands on here in mid march no matter what the weather is doing. Most times it is a little warm but then it will drop right down to 20 bellow like a shot for about a week or two worth of mornings lol. Some town ships with give you permission to truck but most will not. Taylor JohnsonParticipantI do not know if this is good or not but I have done it when I had nothing else and that is using a mix of drain oil and gasoline. I did not measure it but if I had to guess it would be about 15% oil the rest gas. It does last a long time and it cant be any worse that some of the other stuff they sell in the store to do it. I am sure the other things folks have talked about work great and I would most generally do the same. I just said this because I have use it in a pinch and I would bet that some of you that are also making a living with horse, mules, ox,…. might get in a pinch once in a while . Taylor Johnson
ParticipantI have done like Carl does , run trails a head of time . That is the first thing I do on a job in the winter time is make my trails. I also run the cart every were it will go so I have walking trails and something hard to run on even if it snows. The more trails in the snow the better . And I also fall my trees in a fashion that once those are gone I can fall more were I skidded last , and like Carl said you might have to throw a little more brush but it is better to work on than the deep unpacked snow.
You can make a pull plow out of logs or steal I beams but it is hard to move that sugar snow … I hate it to tell ya the truth. I hope you all get a thaw soon so you don’t have to fight it so bad, sounds like you guys got it worse than me this year. I was on the road today sorting wood with my forwarder so the boys got a rest. I knew I would not be in the bush so last night I drug all of my trails , today it was warm and melting so Monday I will have good going . I was starting to get the whole sugar snow thing going this week but like I said not as bad as you guys got it. Taylor Johnson- AuthorPosts