Custom work

[Eli]

Does any one do any custom field work with their horses like cutting hay, tillage or cultivating ? I did custom work with tractors when I was dairying just wondering if their is any work for horses ?

[Dennis]

I do custom haying for people. I mostly use tractors because of time and the size of the fields. I have a couple small lots that I use the mules to rake withand the landowners love it. I have never plowed but I have had people talk to me who were interested in having a team do it for them. I think there is alot of work out there for them, people just have to know that you do it.

[Donn Hewes]

i think there is a small opportunity for custom field work with draft power. In logging with horses one can make a good argument (not always excepted) that the extra time will be returned to the land owner with the qualities that remain in the woods after the harvest. With custom field work unless a land owner is willing to pay extra for the pleasure of the drafts working their place; You will be hard pressed to make the wages you might want or require. Of course this is what most of us do at home. Doing a small plowing plot, when you wouldn’t get to plow otherwise, might be fun. Of course if I didn’t get to plow much at home I might not want to do it in public until I was sure of the tools, animals and methods. Making hay on shares where someone else wants to do some tractor work and you do some of the work with a team could also work.

[Eli]

Finding work is only part of it charging is another, I always seam to do everything for free. Eli

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