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I’d use both of their help and ideas……start with your neighbour

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300 miles in vented chip trailers over highways and side roads. eggs, larvae and 60 mph winds across 300 miles. but don’t panic. all necessary precations were implemented and trained professionals did the work.

sure hope the beetles appreciate that……:eek:

[CharlyBonifaz]

that’s the same effect as in horses or people:
two of them don’t add up to twice the power, you always loose some….

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I admire how out of discarded scrap he built this new sled

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I have rolled my wagon once and my friend also .

been there, done that 😀
very quick way to learn indeed: I ended up in the middle of a nettle field with only (little) summer wardrobe on 😮
my very own mistake and never repeated yet

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sounds good!

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Not only is it easier on the plants

that is exactly what I was taught; left a little longer the grass will grow back a lot faster (leave the apical meristem responsible for producing leaves).

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The Germans make the rules,

as bad as it is, I think you are right
more often than not, someone tells me about a new law by the EU and when I start digging I find even the EU didn’t come up with certain stupid things, it was our own bureaucrats 😡

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as others have said, I’d break it down into pieces:
harness saddle and girth first, after she’s comfortable with that I’d start adding pieces; I also once started to clean (soap and oil) my harness on the animal, taking pieces off, putting more on, having them used to my approach with leatherpieces in my hands and getting them used to movement of the harness in their back…..
Does she buck after being untied from where she is harnessed, or after she has been hitched to a cart? does she buck immediately when put on?
deviate her attention: food in front might give her a more opportune outlook on being harnessed…
does the harness fit her? some will react to “loose” as they would to “tight”
what happened when the teammate spooked her? was the breeching too low and it pulled her legs away from underneath her?

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is it called a ‘pickaxe’ hitch?

3 in the front, two in the back
just returned from a very rewarding tour through the alps were the horses were hitched to the postwagon in this manner; the following link is an access to my pictures taken on this trip, might very well give you an idea of how they are hitched together
http://picasaweb.google.de/107443822450645834267/DerLindauerBoteCorriereDiLindo2010#
advances are in turning: with 2 in the back you can make tighter turns
the 3 out front need to be “ready to go” animals, very willing, very forewards
the 2 in the back will have to hold the whole weight in tight turns in the mountains, actually the horse in the inner curve has to hold the most; in tight turns the front three have to be taken out of pulling, otherwise they might break your pole;
so you want strong animals in the back, forwards going animals in the front
if I had only one oxen for the cart, I’d be using shafts and hitch the front rigging(?) of the three to the shafts with chains; think of two eveners with a 1/3 – 2/3 ratio and 3 singletrees, the middle one hooked into both eveners. Have tried to hitch one (!) ox in front of another one (tandem) and resulted in one broken harness 😮 , but will try again 😎

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My book Oxen A teamster’s guide is here and have been reading it all day.

best way to get hooked 😀

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theory is crutches…

not meant to be negativ; sometimes it needs crutches to get going; it is in my view only a basis, a basis even to be turned back to if problems arise…..

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You need to think how that animal is thinking and as a teamster see a situation before it is a problem.

this is important, think ahead!
But your imagination can only provide you with clues if you had a chance to get some lecturing from a seasoned team and a teamster, both willing to share experiences; only with enough background will you have a chance to build on your own practical know-how; theory is crutches…
“listen” closely to what the animals say, often enough I found myself thinking, they had told me long before, I just didn’t understand 🙁

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thank you for sharing the video

You can see on this that they harness through a nose ring – isn’t it much more painful for the animal than an occasional whack with the goad?

http://www.draftanimalpower.com/showthread.php?t=422
might answer your question 😉

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The author of that piece seemed to think it anatomically impossible to shoe an ox while it was standing.

not a problem, if trained as in a horse

another method to throw them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx0UgmN9dv8&NR=1

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