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Participant@dominiquer60 3347 wrote:
I am sure that there are many variations of verbal commands for moving a horse over, this is the one that we used.
It’s funny you mentioned that. My g/f is a riding horse trainer for 20 years and is famous for saying “It doesn’t matter if your command is ‘Peanut Butter’ as long as it’s always ‘Peanut Butter'”.
Participant@416Jonny 1319 wrote:
You know, I’ve always had this urge to hitch six or eight up of those little critters in front of a gang of reel mowers to mow my lawn. I don’t know, seem’s like a funny idea.
Hmmm…..I can see the head lines now, “local screw-ball mowing lawns with 8 miniature horses. The police were notified, but stated that their was no law against being a dumbass.”
Welcome to the forum!
Jonny B.
That is so funny. I actually begged my g/f to let me do that. I don’t own any mini’s but I would love to put eight of them together, go through town on a little wagon singing “Fat Guy With A Little Horse”. lol I wonder why she didn’t want me to?
ParticipantQuick newbie question, what is an affiliate link? Any link or a link toa competitors website? I just want to clarify so i don’t accidently link to something I’m not supposed to. Is linking to a YouTube video I’d like to share allowed? Thanks. By the way, great site. Love it.
ParticipantThat is an excellant point Rod. I like that even though we should all get along, the moderators allow people to work out their differences in front of the whole community so they can decide how they stand. Great site and I hope to learn alot from everyone. Jen, you are right about Neil. He really is a great person. I met him over on another site and he shared some designs for a three wheeled forecart with me. Sometimes things just come out wrong on the little shiny screen.
ParticipantThanks! I hope you all will bear with me. I’ll be reading all of the old posts so I’m sure I’ll be bringing alot of old subjects back to the forefront.
ParticipantGeorge,
I don’t know if you’ve found an answer yet but, I’d like to throw in my experience.
This spring (as we do every year) we picked one field to have all of our plow buddies come over and make a day of turning dirt. It so happend over the course of the day I had the opportunity to use four plows of differant manufacture and design.
The first was our old John Deere 16″ Sulky. This plow was bought by my great grandfather brand new and has been in our family ever since. This is also my grandfather’s favorite plow. It works great and would be typical of your old plows now bought for cheap. Problem is the beam got bent 10 years ago or so by grandpa’s brother so it ran into the furrow some. Unfortunately, since the day of the plow meet, we sent it to a friend to have him try and restraighten the beam, but to no avail. Now we can’t use it at all. They are very hard to get straight after they’ve been tweaked.
The second was a John Deere 14″ Foot Lift. This plow is my favorite. Has a tongue, foot lift and comfy seat. Grandpa can’t use it since his legs don’t bend very well (he’s 78 y/o former dairy farmer). Does a great job plowing and i can’t complain a bit about it. We borrowed it from the friend who tried to straighten our other plow but, I don’t think he’ll get it back anytime soon. (Luckily he said I could use it as long as I wanted. He hadn’t sat on it for 10 years.) The one draweback, it is a little tipsy if you get it in a deep furrow left by “Johnny I Can Plow Deeper Than Anyone Else”.
The third was my uncle’s (my grandfather’s brother who hit the stone with his plow) Pioneer 14″ sulky. Nice plow, works good but the seat is too weak for me. When I sat on it I felt as though I was about to flip over backward from the seat bending back like a slinky. Now, I’m 6’5″ 350 lbs. so I don’t think it would be a problem for an average sized individual. All in all, nice plow.
The fourth was a 14″ White Horse sulky. If I were to ever buy a new plow this one would be it. Essentially the same plow as the Pioneer but the seat, instead of being on a wobbly spring, is mounted on a hinge so it only flexes straight up and down and not siode to side. If I had to buy a new one, I’d definitely go with the White Horse.
Don’t know if any of my ramblings help, but they’re there anyway. My favorite overall, the John Deere Foot Lift.
John
ParticipantI know irt’s an old thread but I thought it was great. Very informative. Thanks.
ParticipantJust curious, have you tried her with the mower as-is? It may work if you let her rest more frequently. How long is the bar now?
ParticipantCarl’s right on the money with speaking to them. I’d forgotten since I do it almost unconciously. Best conversations I have.
ParticipantI’m glad to hear everything’s working out for you. I use a Kimberwick on my gelding and it works great. Not as much of a leverege bit but works on the same principle.
ParticipantHere’s some pictures of my g/f riding him.
ParticipantJust wondering what you found out. Were you able to get any more good info from the Fair Winds Farm gathering?
Participant@Rick Alger 3051 wrote:
Has anyone found an inexpensive way to make decent horse bedding?
I usually open up a straw bale and shake really hard 😀 😀 😀 😀
In all seriousness, we use straw (cheap for us since we plant 20 acres of oats a year) then I pull out chaff raked from under their mangers or out in the hallway to absorb the urine. Works great for us.
ParticipantDoes Les sell the D-ring videos or have it available for download somewhere? Always wanted a D-ring but no-one around here uses them so i don’t have any to look at closely.
ParticipantMI’s the same way. Went to the sale at Lake Odessa a couple weeks ago. Sold a pair of 16.2 9 & 12 y/o BROKE BROKE BROKE Percherons. Couldn’t get over $250 bidded for the 9 and $125 for the 12. Sad, wish I had the extra space, I’da bought ’em in a heartbeat.
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