Brody my fjord is a real logger

[TaylorJohnson]

I started my little fjord horse Brody in the woods this week and he is doing just great. He had never been in the woods before I got him a year ago. I would have started him sooner but I have not been logging much for the last year due to an injury. He is a was a very ramie little guy and that is how I got him. The man that I got him from said I could have him if I would work him and make something out of him. He was a little to much for your average horse owner but I thought he would make a good logging horse. He would bolt now and then but only if he did not understand what he was seeing. He is a lot like a mule in the way he behaves, once he understands something and can see how it works nothing seem to bother him.
I worked him in the drive way and the trails around my house on a little breaking dray I built and after just a bit he got better and better , very responsive to voice . I was so anxious to get him ( and me ) in the woods it was killing me. Well this week it happened and he is doing great. After about 5 or 6 logs it was like he had been logging for a month or better, about the tenth log I hooked him to was a 16 foot red pine log that I was not sure he could pull or not but I did know he could at least turn it. I hooked him to the log and away we went , he straitened it out and I could tell he had it and had it good ( I bet you could not have knocked the smile off my face with a ball bat 😀 ) . He marched it strait up a slight grade and when it leveled out I stooped him for a short break and to pet him up a bit, he took about 2 big breaths and acted like he just stepped out of the barn in the morning. Then I straitened him out and pointed him for the landing and away he went just like a champ pulling perfectly. After that challenging pull I went back and got a few 8 footers and some tens to let him know that all work is not that hard . I also had to use him teamed up with one of my Belgian horses to pull a few big ones out and he did great with that as well . I just cant wait to get him in shape ( and me to ) to see what he can really do . When I got him I had know idea what he would be capable of but I know now that he will be a horse that I can make a living with and if I get another one and make a team out of them I will be in tall cotton. Well enough bragging for know, just real happy with my boy. Taylor Johnson

[becorson]

congratulations ! keep us all posted on how you are doing.

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