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CharlyBonifaz
Memberhave you ever tried to switch their places?
Memberleave the horns 😉
MemberWhat is often mentioned is the prevalent use of horses for “pre-skidding” aka pre-bunching trail/roadside for subsequent removal by a forwarder, etc..
http://www.fuhrhalterei-stertenbrink.de/holzernte.htm#koelnerverfahren
click onto the videoMemberThe powers that be have made it impossible NOT to have a bank !!!
what about the ideas of Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank giving micro credits……isn’t that pretty much what lancek has in mind? At least Mr. Yunus got the nobel prize for that and his system should work in first world countries as well 😎
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grameen_BankMemberya’ll sit a spell!
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well, I’ll take you up on that one:
am training a riding-to-be ox (4yrs old) with a Royal King Western saddle (one4all); it keeps sliding back about 4 inches when under weight; am I too far up on the shoulder with it? do I use the 2nd cinchring that is above the stirrup? :confused:
http://yfrog.com/eh1005cbreitenbjMemberas the saying goes: you use what you have got
sure makes ploughing diffcult for horses and cattle have a completely different stride and attitude 😉
thanks for the pistureMemberthe more and more I think of it, the more I’m convinced those carts were used with oxen; considering were the auction is and knowing they worked with long oxen-trains that might just have been the waggon for it…..
Memberoutch!
good healings !Memberas solid/rugged as the shafts are build I suspect it must have been quite a job to turn those wagons in deep mud……
another thought going along with this: here the front horses may have been able to help pulling in the turns, while with a single tongue and the front horses pulling you run danger of breaking the tongueMemberhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71IrdY1kMsI
German Championship in Team Plowing 2010Memberknew I had it somewhere, hope it helps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMQIpuGRLpIMemberthey are all individuals and have characters of there own.. even down to a look in their eye..
true!
I think when we talk about their “intelligence” we use our own criteria, which need not fit; we should rather try to understand how good they are in their world
from day one my ox had a (for me) surprisingly keen knowledge of every single track we had walked (even if it was once only he knew) and what we had done there….Memberit was the poorer farmers winter work to train the young oxen and sell them in spring to the wealthier neighbours; often enough very specific colours/markings were asked for (increasing the price), because it was their pride to have a perfectly fitting team….
poor farmers worked with cows and there is a publication from 1936 (Kuhanspannung in Deutschland – Heinrich Steinmetz) claiming it even increased the milk yield when the cows were put to work (I leave it to your imagination what the stalls and fodder must have been like)MemberI experienced this first hand when I traveled to Europe, where much of the milk is “ultra” pasturized and does not require refrigeration. It was, at least to me, undrinkable.
true 😉
but if you want to drink raw milk there are special farms: monthly healthcheck of cows, more milktesting and higher standarts (f.e. somatic cells less than 200.000); milk must be immediately cooled, handled and stored at temp below +4°C (+39,2F) and used within 96hours after having been milked….Memberexactly how it worked in Germany: mostly oxen (and those were for the better-off farmers) and cows doing the work
no idea about scotland though
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