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Droverone
ParticipantPlease! It’s never too hot!
Come south and feel the heat for real!
90+f/ 30c+ and it’s just May!ParticipantI saw them and was reminded
ParticipantThey look great
ParticipantAMEN!
And thank god we are talking about taking weight off when there are starving animals in his economic disaster!ParticipantAlbert I posted your whips pictures under my name in an earlier post.
ParticipantFABIAN!!!! even the germanians used a fore “HEAD” yoke
but the quote was all in fun!
Participantto all the bow/neck/shoulder yoke devotees,please remember
“No matter how far you’ve gone on a wrong road, turn back!” [turkish proverb]
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Head yoke!Participanthttp://www.oocities.org/lkennedy@rogers.com/TheOxBell.pdf
This is the best to learn
ParticipantThat’s a great pair of cattle, I watched them at Brooklyn fair last year! The best of luck with them! You got a lot of potential there!
ParticipantVery nice!!!!
ParticipantThat the head yoke allows the “EVEN” distribution of the force of the load, equalizing the power, and not as easily allowing one animal to get the “Advantage” over the other that can easily discourage one animal from giving his all to move a tricky load. I always wonder if people who like neck yokes carry water buckets on their forceps. It seems much more logical to me to use the muscle to exert the force in the direction it was developed to be used instead of pressing into it and exerting undue strain against it. A simple study of the direction of the force exerted would show that by one animal lagging in a neck yoke would move the direction of the force laterally into the side of the neck, possible interfering with the point of the shoulder or against the vertebrae, neither of which would allow the animal to be able to exert the most force to keep the load moving, forward or otherwise.
ParticipantThe boom pole has advantages but it needs to be fashioned in a way to make the angle of the head in the head yoke level with the ground with the adjustment of the hemmick chains, the angle and the backing bolt along with the hemmick chains remove all the slack, but many head yoke teamsters do not make turns with a boom pole like the americans would use it with a neck yoke. Many of them stop, take the pressure off the short chain at the base of the boom pole and angle the team, before resuming a pull in a straight direction.
ParticipantYour in good shape if it did not affect ligaments and tendons, how lame is he? Or is he just uncomfortable? I like vetericyn, and derma clens for things like this and some oral bute, 1gram a day
March 21, 2012 at 8:57 pm in reply to: Thoughts about the biomechanics of oxen pulling heavier loads #72599Participant- AuthorPosts