New technology

[weirman]

I’m in a draft animal power class in Vermont and am writing a paper on modern draft technology since about the 1950’s. I know it’s a tricky situation because most of the equipment either has been essentionaly the same for centuries or there simply just not much information out there.

Ive been going through small farmers journal and trying to check older texts but it is a very specific subject matter

Any teamsters (I’m trying to focus on oxen, but horse equipment is ok) have any suggestions on specific equipment or new sources??

[Carl Russell]

It’s difficult to understand what exactly you are looking for. Your chosen time frame is odd, because it actually coincides with significant decline in the use of draft animals. In recent decades there has been a lot of improvement in modernizing horse equipment for farming, particularly by Amish manufacturers. If you visit the Horse Progress Days web site, you will probably get a good list of current equipment.

As far as equipment for oxen, pretty much any piece that you use with horses can be used with oxen. The fact that very little has changed in terms of the basic equipment also reflects the many many years that went into refining designs that still fulfill the original purpose.

If you refine your question, there may be others on the site that can speak to more detail.

Thanks for posting, Carl

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