Working horses
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Topic: Working horses
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Subject: Working horses
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2022 at 6:57pm
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2022 at 8:11pm
| i've always loved watching them in action! |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2022 at 8:18pm
| Only bad thing of a draft animal, they have a inane sense of demanding obedience and working to prove themselves, right to that point they work to death. Great uncle had Grays, always worked them as a team with a mule, mule would work until worn slick but stopped before did injury, basically time to unhitch team and rest. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2022 at 9:13pm
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what was the purpose of the whirling cone of sticks contraption at about 9:40? And anyone have an idea what the animals cut of production was? ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2022 at 5:25am
That machine digging potatoes. And the animals , their next meal??
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LouSWPA wrote:Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2022 at 5:50am
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Worst part of my day was cultivating corn with them. Talk about a boring day!
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Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2022 at 10:48am
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Horses eat a 1000 lbs of hay a month just standing around. If you put them to work you need to feed more. An of course the bigger horses eat more than a little one. Many old timers stories I have read say that farming in the arid west was just a get buy thing having to raise feed for horses.
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Posted By: Darrell G (MN)
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2022 at 9:05pm
| That whirly bird thing was a potato digger, watch further in the video and you will see people picking up taters and putting them in a bag. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2022 at 10:57pm
------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2022 at 11:00pm
------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2022 at 11:06pm
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Horses were pretty much gone from the farms by the time I came along, at least around here. But, there was one fellow not far from here who had a few acres, and he worked them with a team of draft horses. I remember dad saying that the horses were his pets/hobby and he raised just enough to support his horses ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2022 at 2:29pm
| Great-great-grandpa had a team of Percherons that he used to build a road. The state was building a highway and hired farmers and their horses to do the work. I forget the exact pay, but grandpa made “x” dollars and his horses earned nearly double. I guess because they were the ones moving the dirt. |