Minis at work

[Jean]

I was asked to post some pictures of my littles guys doing some work. I had some videos but can not find them. Here are some stills.

This is Orion and he is only 4, so I felt light loads were ok to start. Today (he is 5 now) he pulled me and my mom in the cart, I won’t say how much weight that was, but lets just say it was more then he weighs.

I also included some this spring working with the team. We moved a pile of fence posts. We only moved 3 at a time, but that weight was really light, they could have done more. We were working on team work. The bay really likes to go and the mare will let him carry the whole load, so were trying to get them to work together.

[f3farms]

Awesome!! have you hooked them to anything with a tongue?
Rob

[Jean]

Here they are at Animal Power Field Days

[jen judkins]

Sweet… 😮

[fogish]

Fantastic, thank you. Now I just have to convince my wife that I have to get the collar sooner than we planned. Has anyone converted a small dump cart to be pulled by minis? What are there heights and who did you get the collars and harness through?

[KC33]

Jean,
Fabulous! I have 2 mares that are bigger, a bit, at 10.2HH. We are learning to work together to pull logs, haul manure in a sled etc. We are working single, but I have aspirations to work as a pair eventually. I’m sure I’m going to have a ton of questions about putting them together.

Fogish, I have harness from Chimicum Tack. Love it. Comfy Fit it’s called. And, you can add collar and hames to the pleasure driving harness without having to have a complete work harness separately. I have a dump cart that gets pulled behind a riding mower or ATV, and want a forecart eventually to pull that with. There is a site Willowtrail Farms, I believe, that shows a modified dump cart with shafts on it, if someone has welding skills.
KC

[carl ny]

Jean,in pic #4, why do you have the load hooked to the single tree instead of the center of the evener????

carl ny

[carl ny]

Fogish KC33, I had a single pony cart and made a hitch for the back of it.I built a seat in a garden cart to pull behind it. Worked good. Buttercup(12 hh pony) use to pull ma and I in the pony cart and the two boys in the garden cart all over the place…Ma and I aren’t little either.

carl ny

[Jean]

The chain was in the middle, but I did not have it on right, so it slipped. I have since had someone weld a loop there and I bought a swivel grab link, it works much better now and I don’t look so much like a hay seed.

[carl ny]

Not a hayseed,that’s how we learn. Just make sure that it’s not something that will get you or your horses hurt….

carl ny

[Joshua Kingsley]

with the intrest in minis growing I have been thinking of building some small equipment like scoots and such if people wanted. If there is interest I will figure out a cost and we could go from there. josh

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