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Bivol, I thought the cartoon was funny as well, especially liked the bit where the cat was getting it.

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@Theloggerswife 17498 wrote:

Those Europeans have a different sense of humor for sure:D….Remember Benny Hill??? 😮

Benny Hill was brilliant, when I was a boy The Benny Hill Show was a must every week, have you ever heard “Ernie, he drove the fastest milkcart in the west”.http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1180963/benny_hill_ernie_the_fastest_milkman_in_the_west/
Watch the video here and listen to the words, it was No.1 in the pop charts over here in 1971.

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Day 15 I was half expecting some trouble today as I was going to drive him straight out of the yard, with the mare calling etc, I thought he might try it on. But, not a bit of it, straight out of the yard and up the lane no bother, we did about a mile and a half, and he has a real good stride on him, turned around and set off for home, got my wife to lean back on the traces and pull them around a bit, I kept telling her to “lean back, dig your heels in”, “I am” she says, anyway he was keen to get home but was not stupid about it, my wife was sweating by the time we got home though, I told her she should be grateful for such a work out, they would have charged her a fortune at a gym.

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@jenjudkins 17394 wrote:

I’m really enjoying the progression as you work with him….keep it coming! BTW, nice feet!

Thank you for your comments. I have a good farrier and I want to keep him, so I try to help him as much as I can, I know he does not like to be mauled about by a draft horse so by doing a little at a time, when he gets to work on him, he will be easy to do. He does have good feet, they were a little long but now I can get the rasp on him they are coming back each day.

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One of my mentor’s is Brian, 75yrs of age who was working horses on his own from the age of 12. Simon Lenihan is the other who has given me a lot of help.
Pictured is Brian and his latest project, Apollo

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@OldKat 17387 wrote:

Holy Smoke! Look at the bone in those horses! VERY nice stallions. How old is your horse, cousin jack?

He will be five in June.

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Day 14 Today he showed his mettle (a little), where we round pen him is three and a half miles from where my horses are kept, we take him in the trailer. Today being a Saturday, there was lots of horse activity going on around us, children on ponies, horses calling from the surrounding fields, etc.
He did not settle and was in a fractious mood, it was one of those mornings where you just had to come out on top, and it took three hours to do so, but at the end of it all, I drove him out of the pen and walked him the three and half miles back to his field without a care. He has yet to learn that “whoa” means “stand there, untill I say different”, he is impatient. Of course, my mentor says, “in my day, we’ve had hooked him up with an old mare to do two hours harrowing now, one that would let him do all the work”, anyway we finished on a good note and I will drive him tomorrow straight from the yard, (hopefully).

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Day 12 When we first got him, picking up his feet was an issue, it did’nt take long and i can now use the rasp without bother. Except it makes me blow like a puffing billy!

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Just looking at the Suffolk pictures, can anyone tell me why “our English” Suffolks seem to be so long in the back, I have always liked a medium or short coupled horse, I can’t help but think a long back would/could be a weak point. Am I right or wrong to be thinking this way?

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On day eight we had him in the round pen, and harnessed, and ground driven by day 10.

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@Marshall 17307 wrote:

Nice looking horse. What I wouldn’t give for a team like that!

This is his sire, so he probably has some furnishing to do yet, Apollon d’Hargi

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@simon lenihan 17302 wrote:

We had a small oak thinning job which we used apollo to do, he did very well, but he is still only green broke.
simon lenihan

That will explain why he is finding everything so easy, not sure how much you had done with him, but thought it best to go back to basics.

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I knew that he had been “green” broke but was unsure of what he had done, so I started by tying him up and introducing a bit, then letting him eat his hay with the bit in his mouth. Groomed him at the same time. He was reluctant to pick his feet up so it was just a case of getting each one off the ground for a few seconds at a time and then repetition. We had a weight tape on him to get his weight for worming purposes, he is approx. 600kg (1300 lbs). Meanwhile, Hermes cannot understand what all the fuss is about, and why the young upstart is getting all the attention.

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I have used it on horses and I know others who have, with no adverse reactions, however it is not licensed to be used on horses, (not in the UK anyway), so therefore you use it at your own risk!

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I’m fairly new to this and I was proud of how I built the piles in the first picture,I did this by hand with a peavey and bearers, on my own, but by using the equipment in the second picture, I could go higher and make more use of space at the landing, (picture three), without giving myself a rupture, appropiate technology or am I a traitor to the cause. Of course, people will look at the first picture and say, “well you did it, did’nt you”, but I know there were moments when I was on the limit, I like to think I’m fairly fit and in good health but it would only be a matter of time before something gave way, and I’m fairly certain it would’nt of been the timber.

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