Leading scarlet in harness

[Eli]

Do you think it would be counterproductive to lead my horse wile pulling fire wood. I don’t feel comfortable driving and pulling fire wood. I do plan on ground driving her this weekend as part of her training. We pulled a lot of things under saddle, poles, boards, pales, pipes through the stirrup so she is not easily spooked. Now that I have a harness I want to pull everything, but don’t want do any harm. Eli

[mitchmaine]

hey eli,
i’d be more worried about you up there. if you got tripped up and she pulled away, she might pull her load right over you. at least if you are back behind the chain, it might not feel to comfortable for a while but you are in a safer place. good luck with it. line drive her till you feel good with that, then twitch some wood out on open ground til you feel ok there. you will know when its time to go in the woods

[Eli]

I drove ground drove scarlet for an hour then I dragged the chains for ten min or so then added a single tree for ten then added a chain all went well. But wen I hooked a peice of fire wood she did good on the first one then wouldn’t pull the second one she would bump it then back up or try to spin so I went back to dragging the chain and single tree. Then unhooked everything and drove her into barn and put her away . All in all she did good, thank god she is a calm horse never gets to rattled and stops when I say woa and let’s me help her. They say curlies like to think their way out of trouble and she sure seams to. Soon I will hook her to the two wheeled cart. I was hoping the snow would stay so I could put the skies on the cart for something different . Eli

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