ok I want a team that can do this!!!!

[lancek]

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/es/mn/es_mn_logging_1_e.jpg ok now tell me a good team cant compeat with a log skidded!

[Gabe Ayers]

I think this load is being skidded on ice roads.

I have read about systems up north that actually have water tank on a bob sled that waters the tracks and makes them solid ice. I can only imagine that load being moved with that reduced resistance from the load. I also would note that this is level ground and that there would be no stopping if it were downhill.

Someone sent me a link to a site a few years ago that showed and told about the above mentioned system. They actually skidded these massive loads over a frozen lake, somewhere in Canada. Pretty impressive…

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[Carl Russell]

Unfortunately, I think you have to accept that some of these guys just wanted to show off. This was not a load that was going very far, nor over very challenging terrain. Sure they moved it…. while the camera was there, but anybody who has loaded sleds will know that if there was any outcome of critical importance, they wouldn’t have put that much time into this load. If something happened to go wrong…. holy crap, what a mess. They weren’t just showing off the horses, but the ability and cleverness of the guys who could handle logs and chains.

Never-the-less it is surely impressive to look at, Carl

[lancek]

not to mention what the horses thought holly crap what is that bitting at my heals 😀 They must of been terrified the whole time ! And yes this was a pic of the horse dragging from the river to the mill! But still it goes to show what a good teamster and a little ingenuity can do.

[J-L]

You just have to say “WOW!” to that.

Lingodog13 has some old logging pictures from the mountains above our ranches. I’m going to put a bug in her ear to post a few of them.
So interesting. This country was tie hack country and we run into the remnants of old flumes, splash dams, and tie hack cabins all the time. While I was a kid I wondered about the 4′-5′ tall stumps all around the cabins and realized they were cut in the winter on top of the snow.

Thanks for sharing that neat old picture.

[LostFarmer]

J-L,
Ruben and Huff could pull that with a little moose motivation. You might not have much control over where you end up but they could move it. 😀

I have a pony team that couldn’t move it but they would give it all heck trying. :rolleyes: Silly ponies don’t know they are little.

Great picture thanks for posting. LF

[Anonymous]

even frozen water is flat so stopping the load is not a problem and turning over is not much of a worry eather on a frozzen lake or river! stop pulling and that load will whooooe with a quickness!!! this just came to me about the thired time i was looking at the picture just food for thought Scott

[TBigLug]

That’s a neat pic. Thanks for putting it up!

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