BigIron70

Takes four horses to pull semi out of snow drift, So much for diesel power.

cougar

Nothing will replace the good ol draft horse.

Scotty

Thats cool but I thought I'd see a picture of some horses you bought taking their morning dumps on the neighbors lawn.

BigIron70

[QUOTE=Scotty;3258734]Thats cool but I thought I'd see a picture of some horses you bought taking their morning dumps on the neighbors lawn.

I would not mind a horse taking a dump, that makes good fertilizer

railroaderone

Maybe one of the horses is named diesel?

railroaderone

Maybe one of the horses is named diesel

SIXSLUG

Maybe one of the horses is named diesel

Scotty

.diesel named is horses the of one Maybe

j_martin

˙lǝsǝᴉp pǝɯɐu sᴉ sǝsɹoɥ ǝɥʇ ɟo ǝuo ǝqʎɐW

It's amazing how much a draft horse can pull for a short time. We had a percheron for awhile. He was a pet, but we hooked him up to some equipment once in awhile as he liked to show his stuff. A percheron has some Arabian blood in it, and he showed it by dancing for his hay every morning. Over a ton of horse flesh goofing around is impressive to say the least.

You had to be careful not to ask him to do more than he could, because he wouldn't quit and might get hurt. One day, when I wasn't home, Ma got the 1 ton van stuck in the clay quagmire we call our yard. It was stuck good, like up to the hubs. The girls hooked up Buddy to pull it out. First pull, didn't budge. He backed up and lunged at it, folded up the single tree. The girls went and found a heavy single tree, and hooked him up again. He got it out that time, but we had to take a hose to the windshield to clean the mud off of it.

Buddy didn't do his daily dance for about a week.

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delsilver

My grandfather logged in northern BC back in the 30's through the 50's. In winter they would use horses to pull the logs out of the bush as vehicle's couldn't handle the work. These horse's were trained to follow the trails back to the mill unsupervised, another advantage over a machine. They were mostly smart enough that if they got hung up on a stump or whatever they would back off and try another angle to get past the obstacle. Of course there is always one bullheaded one in a crowd whether animal or human. In this case the horse would not back, just keep pulling till something broke. The leather traces normally used would snap like string so for this particular horse they used chain for the traces and he usually made it back to the mill site without breaking something.
Del

SIXSLUG

The advantage lies in the 1 horsepower = a ton of torque that can be applied over four different locations at any time during the pull X 4....

If I had a horse, I would name him Diesel....

Sorry railroaderone, I couldn't resist the redundancy attack!

That is one for the Department of Redundancy Department

railroaderone

Sorry about the multiple post thumb studdered

Scotty

And then...someone always has to mess with the thread.

Shovelhead

If I had a draft beer I'd call it Diesel.........