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cousin jack
ParticipantParticipanthttp://www.draftanimalpower.com/photoplog/index.php?n=93
I will try to get a close up of scandanavian double shafts, this afternoon, only trouble is I am a bit slow getting around
Participant@mitchmaine 21404 wrote:
very sorry to hear of your troubles. eight weeks should give you time to make a good plan. good luck next time around. keep us posted on progress. thanks, mitch
Will do Mitch
Participant@lancek 21397 wrote:
Hey Jac don’t you know your spouse to spread your arms an flap like a bird and then run like a goose when you land still flapping ones arms this way you don’t break anything when you land ! Of course the neighbors will think you should be committed after words but thats ok you still didn’t break anything!Now the nexted lesson I will teach you how to run and scream bees bees every other step while finding a river to jump in after you have cut stright through a bee hive in a tree, thats real fun! Any way hope you feel better sone and dont demand too much from your wife or she will colber you with a frying pan ‘ or at least thats what happens to me when Im sick and needing attention! lancek
😀 Laughing out loud
ParticipantParticipantThe title describes are next episode wonderfully. Apollo has been working well on the chains and arch, very well. I wanted to get him going in the forwarder and with hindsight should have progressively built up to it, but after a hard mornings work put him in the forwarder in the round pen, he did’nt like it too much but settled eventually and we moved onto the field. Once in the open, he set off at a canter but after a couple of laps slowed and settled down to walk. Each time I asked him to walk on he set off hard trotting then came back to a walk, he seemed to struggle with the balance of power needed to start the forwarder then easing off just to keep it moving. Eventually he got the hang of it and we started sensibly, stopped, turned hard with no problems and things were good, so stopped there.
The forwarder was very stable and never felt like turning over!
The next day I was complacent and lazy! I decided not to bother working him in and put him straight into the forwarder, as soon as I got on he was off. I was not overly worried as this had happened yesterday and I thought a couple of laps and he will steady up, I made no attempt to slow him or apply the brakes to the forwarder, but he was obviously fresher than the day before and we must have been going a bit faster, as we started to turn I felt the forwarder going over as if it were in slow motion, we hit the ground with a fair old bang and I was spat out of the back as the machine ploughed into the ground. As I crawled away I knew my leg was broken and was already dialling 999 on my mobile before my wife got to me, she got her priorities right 😀 told me to keep still then unhitched the horse who was standing as still as a statue.
Anyway, a long story short, but I broke my leg in two places, will be in plaster for 8 weeks, and probably a bit longer before I am walking properly again, still, it could have been a lot worse, on the plus side it gives me plenty of time to build a proper breaking cart, I still have faith in this horse, but he might just have his nuts removed as retribution, all the best folks, CJParticipant“The boy”, just keeps getting better. I was working away for a week, so never got to work him for 10 days, I thought he just might be a bit silly, not a bit of it! He just went back to work without a care in the world, one little hiccup occurred when I left him standing loose while I cut some brash, ( I had anticipated something maybe happening and had removed the swingle tree). Anyway, he stood like a rock, but when I cut the chainsaw, he started to walk off, I was about 20yds away, so played him at his own game, and told him to walk on rather than whoa, when I was powerless to enforce it, the moment he slowed and lowered his head to pick some grass, I whoa’ed, picked up the reins and back to work as if nothing had happened. Afterwards, I tied him to a tree just in case, and this next bit relates to his intelligence, after snedding a tree, I unhooked the rope from his headcollar, but left the rope tied to the tree. The pull out was approx, 75yds, got out, unhitched, turned around and walked back in, just short of my next pull, he stopped, thinking he was going to stale, I stood for a while waiting, nothing, then I saw where he had stopped, right by the tree with the lead rope on, I think before too long he will be able to make me a cup of tea 😀
ParticipantOk, here’s “the boy” as we call him, working on the skid arch, he is going really well now, always knew he was going to be a star, he just wanted to make me work for it 😀
http://www.draftanimalpower.com/photoplog/index.php?n=482
http://www.draftanimalpower.com/photoplog/index.php?n=481
http://www.draftanimalpower.com/photoplog/index.php?n=480ParticipantGreat thread and pics.
ParticipantThings are still going well, we now have him in the skid cart/arch, empty at first, but I have been up into the woods this morning, pulling timber out, with him.
All went well, did a couple of hours before the flies and mosquitoes, (which are evil in this wood), got too bad. He has got very good at standing still now, despite the flies, and this morning after unhooking a log, and being very particular about where I left the reins, together and very handy, I was able to roll logs onto the deck, without him looking to move off. Just need to get him in the forwarder with Hermes now, I am hoping this will be straightforward enough and should be the icing on the cake.Participant@CharlyBonifaz 19528 wrote:
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 😡Charly , 😀 , I am sure our bureaucrats are just as daft as yours.
ParticipantMy wife says haematoma, (maybe a kick)? hot water and epsom salts compress, (water as hot as YOU can bear, not scalding), then cold compress. two or three times a day.
ParticipantMitch, believe me, there was times when I did’nt think we was going to make it, (I still hav’nt yet), but we’re getting there. But, I was very close to blowing it, simply due to lack of thought and complacency on my part.
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