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I have a lightly used 22″, 25″ and 26″, $75 each, plus shipping

Erika

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Liz I know of a single horse that you are familiar with that may be on the market this spring. Email me, and I will put you in touch with the owner, you can have first refusal if you would like.

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Are there other options that you can tap into? Is there someone within a reasonable distance that you could borrow a horse from? Is there someone that you could borrow a more fitting tractor from? Can you train you bovine to work? There is no shame in hitching the cow and Annie together if they tolerate each other.

If you do go for a second horse, can you get a way with a small horse that will take less feed to keep?

If you do go for a second horse, don’t forget to consider Canada, you will have to pay to get over the border, but the exchange rate is in our favor, and there are some nice horses there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/PercheronHorsesForSale/permalink/1228540843908848/?sale_post_id=1228540843908848

Best wishes with your decision and or search.

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Fantastic!

Erika

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If you are still looking for items come spring, the Green Mountain Draft Horse Association has a spring auction and some great folks to help you evaluate the equipment. Also if you email Reva Seybolt using our address, dapnetinfo@gmail.com, she may have some of what you are looking for.

Erika

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Stocks at home are holding up well, if you don’t count the confused maple trees. Who knows how the sap will run this year.

Happy Belated Imbolc (Pagan precursor to Candlemas on Feb 1) festival of the Goddess Brigid. “To receive her blessings, people would make a bed for Brigid and leave her food and drink, while items of clothing would be left outside for her to bless. Brigid was also invoked to protect homes and livestock. Special feasts were had, holy wells were visited and it was also a time for divination. Imbolc meaning “in the belly”, and refers to the pregnancy of ewes.”

Kind of fitting to be in the pregnancy of the seasons before the birth of spring, I imagine our old friend Robert Moonshadow would have some more to add about the old ways. I miss that goat herder donkey man and hope he is doing well.

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A regular McCormick Deering has independent lifts for each gang, what limits you from using that mechanism? I am not very good picturing these without both visuals in front of me.

Have you looked to any of the KULT systems for parallelogram inspiration?

Erika

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Sam is putting new drops in as we speak and hopes to tap the swamp bush this week, and the other bush during the next big boom after replacing those drops. We have over 1,000 taps in 2 bushes on vacuum (old dairy pumps that Leader will tell you don’t work, but yet they do :)) and a couple small gravity line set ups with Leader’s clear check valve. The check value works well and seems to extend the gravity and pail seasons for us, especially in a stretched out season as it appears to be this year.

Erika

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They straight stick yoke in the 4 abreast above is the least flexible and can put undue weight on the collar/neck if the D-ring harness is not adjusted properly. It can reduce tongue slap because of its rigidity, but I feel like the harness and therefore the horse ends up taking the brunt of it vs. the more fluid uptake of that energy with independent jockey yokes. Sam used to use a straight stick yoke, but the horses seem more comfortable with individual jockey yokes.

The spreader stick and chains are also often found on show wagons and hitches, here is a spreader stick and chain set up with a belly backer harness. Similar concept, but a different setting than what we promote here. http://amespercherons.com/photo-gallery/#!prettyPhoto[1]/http://amespercherons.com/wp-content/gallery/2013-percherons/102-12-10.jpg

Carl Russell uses a spreader stick and chains for a neck yoke, it is a nice set up.

Erika

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I saw a photo of 2 teamster each with a 3 abreast and a 2 row McD cultivator. The photo was in a Draft Horse Journal, if I come across again I will let you know what issue. Each cultivator has 2 pairs of single row gangs. Jonathan said he had a lead on 2 of them out west, but I never heard back from him.

Erika

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There is a pair of 15.3 spotted drafts in your area, they are advertised on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/562115220609846/permalink/761618213992878/?sale_post_id=761618213992878

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Tim Harrigan has a great you-tube video parbuckling with a single ox. It visually demonstrates some subtleties of getting it to work well. Of course it helps that he has a bunch of EAB straight Ash logs to demonstrate with.

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Just guessing as well. With the height difference the neck seats and bows could be too askew to pull much. Can you work them single before you hitch them to a buddy? They really need to be listening to you first before you put two or four together.

Erika

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Where is it located, it is a great price, if you are within driving distance.

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Merry Christmas Mike. I think a lot of folks are hanging with family and enjoying time off from work/school.

Erika

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