Cool video, reverse coronical, nice to see the cant hook work, even in fast forward, beautiful load of Tam.. I always wanted to work Tamarack but our trees are so few and precious, not enough on our farm, I would not cut them. They are the best for log cabins... so, nice pulls, at about 7:30 ,, I wanted to pick up that big branch so she would not trip on it, hate to see a horse get hurt but I trust you know what they can manage without getting hurt. That stuck rock was something, appreciate your comments on breathing, half hr. dang , yeah 10 min seems much more like it, I imagine a hot summer and plowing could take 15 or 20 min to catch breath and all night to recuperate, kind of like a sheep hunt in Alaska, heart jumping all night long as you rest in the tent after a long day hauling meat off the mountain. Tiring...but...that big tamarack! , what a beautiful log x3, so nice , God's Cabin wood. Thanks, I really enjoyed this.
Love your videos reminds me of my grandpa he used to own a couple teams of draft horses to make his living and put food on the table for 9 kids! Did mostly logging there a beautiful team lady and Bill thanks for sharing
Jim , my name is Jim also, I wanted to let you know I look forward to your videos and just love them. I don't live on a farm, but wish I had. Big thank you, keep them coming.
They love it you can tell they are having fun they dident enen want to stop for the rock and they love u i can tell how well u all get along wow what a load they pulled you sur have some amazing anamals glade to see you doing them and keeping them active you have a strong bond
Jim, I so enjoy you videos. I am an old South GA geezer and can't do much now but I love horses and really like to watch you work yours. Keep sharing please.
Ohh my, such interesting work!! You are so calm and caring about your horses. We farm and raised farrow to finish pigs until about twenty years ago..they were a lot of work, the finishing pigs were in confinement houses on slates over eight foot manure pits, so large fans HAD to run all the time to keep fumes drawn from the pits. Some one had to be around home in case we lost power so a generator could be immediately started or hogs would have died from the toxic manure fumes, called methane. We still farm crops, corn and soybeans. My husband has been farming for over sixty years but, has slowed down some!! I really enjoy your wife and your videos..just happened on to them yesterday!!
I notice that your left horse is trying to see where he’s backing, as he turns his head when backing. The right horse not so much. It’s interesting because horses have to have a lot of confidence in their teamster that he’s not going to put them in a troubled situation. I always enjoy watching you working your horses because your quiet and not yelling at you team. They’re well trained for the gee and haw commands and react very well, that making your job a little easier. I remember an old teamster here who had the best trained team I’d ever seen. I watched him back a wagon in the shed while standing on the ground with no lines, only with voice commands, it was amazing. He talked to his horses a lot like you,, very calm and you could hardly hear his commands, but the horses could and responded perfectly. You could tell this wasn’t the first time they had done that. Keep the great videos coming.
Yes, I notice that, I thought it's cool how she looks back, and great comment about backing without lines, awesome, I bet Jim could do that too, These are the Teamsters I want to learn from and why I am here. Great comments. Thanks Fellas, I Love it.
Your horses work so well, I bet, anybody who wants to have real working horses, would buy them . But if I had them, I would NEVER sell them! Your horses are best partners and friends. Interesting, the reasons for blinders. In Bavaria we never had blinders on our work horses, we wanted them to see what was going on so they could think along and avoid injury. Even when I pulled down a tree that had somehow got caught in the top of another one, my horse(s) calmly went without blinders.
hi jim, I saw your video on how you harness. and I tried your way of slipping the collars over there heads. had to give it a try and it worked slick. thank you for the advice, dave
Grab a handful of needles and crush them and smell them. If they smell like cat piss, they are white spruce. It's why white spruce are unsuitable as Christmas trees. Bring them into a warm house and you will wish you hadn't. Red spruce tends to grow in the the understory of hardwoods and have shorter softer needles. I went to college at ESF but never worked as a forester. Life and Uncle Sam got in the way. Red pine growing on wet soil have a tendency to die back when they get to be about 20-25 years old. I haven't heard of this in red spruce but it could be soil moisture related or perhaps insect infestation or disease.. I've forgotten much of what I learned over 50 years ago. I still enjoy watching you log however.
@@russlong7175 WE WERE TOLD IN THE EARLY 60S BY COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION THAT ONLY A VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES IN THE FOREST LAND MANAGEMENT MAJOR EVER ACTUALLY WORKED AS FORESTERS. BUT YOU WERE SO WELL GROUNDED IN THE BASIC ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES THAT YOU COULD FIND A JOB AT MANY PLACES. MANY BECAME TEACHERS.
My Grandfather logged with horses around Wolcott Vermont. Sad day when his last horse went down, Great video and looking forward to more. No horse pulls around here this year. Take care and stay safe, Al
Watching from Wyoming-reminds me of Swedish Timber Workers on the Snowy Range after World War II. The Skid Horses were such a joy to watch at work.🙋🏼♀️🏔💞
Working Horses With Jim I have several home movies of my father’s from the late 1940s-early 1950s, showing skid horses in the Medicine Bow National Forest Timber Camps where he worked, plus movies of him training our Saddle Horse Smokey to skid logs, along with Browny our skid horse. Such treasures!🙋🏼♀️🏔🌟
Nice driving , beautiful horses , reminds me of a team I worked with , Tom & Jerry were their names , their power is amazing !!! :-) thanks for the video ! :-)
It’s a beautiful thing to see the team and you working together. Also wonderful how well you know your horses and just great to see Lady and Bill in such good shape working. Do you ever have need for Haflingers? I have seen some on Blennerhassett Island in WV on the OH River where there was a breeder. Also nice animals. For your logging you sure have the right animals though.
Interesting about the blinders. I had an uncle that got hurt by a small tree that was bent over by a falling big tree. He was deliming the big tree and the sampling wacked him bad in the shoulder
Sure appreciate your knowledge and your ability to share. I noticed your logging forcart uses metal doubletrees as apposed to wood. Would you care to elaborate?
Good day Interesting about the blinds. Yea here in Ont., back in 80-90's we had a town with drinking water go bad from E-coli, few older people died, so they banned putting manure on snow. So neighbors horses don;t do anything all winter. They say there out of shape.. But dragging 2 logs & a stone that acts like a brake I can see way they would b e puffing Anyways thanks for now
Wow! Awesome!!! Horses are so calm and well trained! Did u train them yourself? Will be cool to see ur video about how to work whith horses, what commands do u use and etc! Love ur vids!
Enjoy watching the horses, though I'm not a fan of your buggy. We always dragged logs with the ends a good bit of the ground, can't imagine dragging that stone either. I do agree, you have to keep your horses in shape, the level of work should be equal to the level of exercise. Cheers.
Dale Braun I did all my own as shoeing for 30 years. A couple of years ago an Amish friend started doing it for me. If I lose a shoe I will put it back on myself,when that happens maybe I could make a video on it.
Just a couple questions: Whats the average age of the tamarack trees you log? And how many acres of forest do you have available for logging? How do you estimate how much you can log and still have good trees for your children?
Its good that you let your horses rest to slow there breathing. Ive work with people who put there horses though Hell.. Then they dont stand why i wont work with them... Just disgusting..
Cool video, reverse coronical, nice to see the cant hook work, even in fast forward, beautiful load of Tam.. I always wanted to work Tamarack but our trees are so few and precious, not enough on our farm, I would not cut them.
They are the best for log cabins... so, nice pulls, at about 7:30 ,, I wanted to pick up that big branch so she would not trip on it, hate to see a horse get hurt but I trust you know what they can manage without getting hurt. That stuck rock was something, appreciate your comments on breathing, half hr. dang , yeah 10 min seems much more like it, I imagine a hot summer and plowing could take 15 or 20 min to catch breath and all night to recuperate, kind of like a sheep hunt in Alaska, heart jumping all night long as you rest in the tent after a long day hauling meat off the mountain. Tiring...but...that big tamarack! , what a beautiful log x3, so nice , God's Cabin wood. Thanks, I really enjoyed this.
8/24 these Working Horses W/Jim are so instructive and Jim is famous for the stories. Thanks for the video
Poetry in motion ...............Thanks for taking the time to film .....Superb.
Love your videos reminds me of my grandpa he used to own a couple teams of draft horses to make his living and put food on the table for 9 kids! Did mostly logging there a beautiful team lady and Bill thanks for sharing
Thanks!
It is always a pleasure to watch you work your horses ...
That's the stuff, fine tuning the engines by the sounds of their huffs and puffs! Love the pace of your work videos.
Thanks for watching!
Jim , my name is Jim also, I wanted to let you know I look forward to your videos and just love them. I don't live on a farm, but wish I had. Big thank you, keep them coming.
I have never used draft horses or even been around them. However, I find myself captivated by your videos. I think I'm becoming addicted!!
Thanks for watching, Todd
I may have mentioned this before but, I really like the slip hooks on your chockers. Mine just have rings, they work, but take longer.
I have yet to hear this man (jim) swear I would bet he don't even when he gets mad -he is a good man
They love it you can tell they are having fun they dident enen want to stop for the rock and they love u i can tell how well u all get along wow what a load they pulled you sur have some amazing anamals glade to see you doing them and keeping them active you have a strong bond
Keep the dream alive friends. This way of lifestyle is still possible thanks to folks like you
Jim, I so enjoy you videos. I am an old South GA geezer and can't do much now but I love horses and really like to watch you work yours. Keep sharing please.
And iam a old arse hole gaser..log many years with horses
Ohh my, such interesting work!! You are so calm and caring about your horses. We farm and raised farrow to finish pigs until about twenty years ago..they were a lot of work, the finishing pigs were in confinement houses on slates over eight foot manure pits, so large fans HAD to run all the time to keep fumes drawn from the pits. Some one had to be around home in case we lost power so a generator could be immediately started or hogs would have died from the toxic manure fumes, called methane. We still farm crops, corn and soybeans. My husband has been farming for over sixty years but, has slowed down some!! I really enjoy your wife and your videos..just happened on to them yesterday!!
I notice that your left horse is trying to see where he’s backing, as he turns his head when backing. The right horse not so much. It’s interesting because horses have to have a lot of confidence in their teamster that he’s not going to put them in a troubled situation. I always enjoy watching you working your horses because your quiet and not yelling at you team. They’re well trained for the gee and haw commands and react very well, that making your job a little easier.
I remember an old teamster here who had the best trained team I’d ever seen. I watched him back a wagon in the shed while standing on the ground with no lines, only with voice commands, it was amazing. He talked to his horses a lot like you,, very calm and you could hardly hear his commands, but the horses could and responded perfectly. You could tell this wasn’t the first time they had done that.
Keep the great videos coming.
Dick49311 yes she does do that sometimes, but she does it when she is going ahead also, I’m not sure why. Good observation
Yes, I notice that, I thought it's cool how she looks back, and great comment about backing without lines, awesome, I bet Jim could do that too, These are the Teamsters I want to learn from and why I am here. Great comments. Thanks Fellas, I Love it.
I really enjoy watching your videos! Thank You Jim
Thank you Jim. Much appreciated.
I enjoyed this video very much, just found your channel am back watching your blogs
Your horses work so well, I bet, anybody who wants to have real working horses, would buy them . But if I had them, I would NEVER sell them! Your horses are best partners and friends. Interesting, the reasons for blinders. In Bavaria we never had blinders on our work horses, we wanted them to see what was going on so they could think along and avoid injury. Even when I pulled down a tree that had somehow got caught in the top of another one, my horse(s) calmly went without blinders.
hi jim, I saw your video on how you harness. and I tried your way of slipping the collars over there heads. had to give it a try and it worked slick. thank you for the advice, dave
dave jones that’s great
Excellent information and video!
Grab a handful of needles and crush them and smell them. If they smell like cat piss, they are white spruce. It's why white spruce are unsuitable as Christmas trees. Bring them into a warm house and you will wish you hadn't. Red spruce tends to grow in the the understory of hardwoods and have shorter softer needles. I went to college at ESF but never worked as a forester. Life and Uncle Sam got in the way. Red pine growing on wet soil have a tendency to die back when they get to be about 20-25 years old. I haven't heard of this in red spruce but it could be soil moisture related or perhaps insect infestation or disease.. I've forgotten much of what I learned over 50 years ago. I still enjoy watching you log however.
Thanks for sharing
I went to the forestry school in the mid 80s but never worked in forestry either. Missed the opportunity
@@russlong7175 WE WERE TOLD IN THE EARLY 60S BY COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION THAT ONLY A VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES IN THE FOREST LAND MANAGEMENT MAJOR EVER ACTUALLY WORKED AS FORESTERS. BUT YOU WERE SO WELL GROUNDED IN THE BASIC ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES THAT YOU COULD FIND A JOB AT MANY PLACES. MANY BECAME TEACHERS.
My Grandfather logged with horses around Wolcott Vermont. Sad day when his last horse went down, Great video and looking forward to more. No horse pulls around here this year. Take care and stay safe, Al
Keep the good stuff coming thanks
Watching from Wyoming-reminds me of Swedish Timber Workers on the Snowy Range after World War II. The Skid Horses were such a joy to watch at work.🙋🏼♀️🏔💞
Thanks for watching!
Working Horses With Jim I have several home movies of my father’s from the late 1940s-early 1950s, showing skid horses in the Medicine Bow National Forest Timber Camps where he worked, plus movies of him training our Saddle Horse Smokey to skid logs, along with Browny our skid horse. Such treasures!🙋🏼♀️🏔🌟
I found this very interesting and await for your next videos.
The horses are a credit to you
Starting the pull with that rock and logs, the horses looked like many I've seen at county fair horse pulls. Great job with the video and your horses.
They listen so well to you! Great video
Hi Jim. Great job, as always. The horses are very powerful. Nice to look at. Take off how the Amish work.
Would love to see some of those other videos. Your horses and you are so impressive, THANK YOU‼️👍👍. Vinny 🇺🇸
Nice driving , beautiful horses , reminds me of a team I worked with , Tom & Jerry were their names , their power is amazing !!! :-) thanks for the video ! :-)
It’s a beautiful thing to see the team and you working together. Also wonderful how well you know your horses and just great to see Lady and Bill in such good shape working. Do you ever have need for Haflingers? I have seen some on Blennerhassett Island in WV on the OH River where there was a breeder. Also nice animals. For your logging you sure have the right animals though.
Haglingers are nice horses. I have never worked with them but some people do log with them
Interesting about the blinders. I had an uncle that got hurt by a small tree that was bent over by a falling big tree. He was deliming the big tree and the sampling wacked him bad in the shoulder
Ouch
Amazing!
Is it spruce Jim or balsam? Balsam don’t get big and get crowded out quickly. The limbs of a balsam are green needles but they lay flat across.
Sure appreciate your knowledge and your ability to share. I noticed your logging forcart uses metal doubletrees as apposed to wood. Would you care to elaborate?
Jim House wood ones are more apt to brake, steel ones last longer.
Good day Interesting about the blinds. Yea here in Ont., back in 80-90's we had a town with drinking water go bad from E-coli, few older people died, so they banned putting manure on snow. So neighbors horses don;t do anything all winter. They say there out of shape..
But dragging 2 logs & a stone that acts like a brake I can see way they would b e puffing Anyways thanks for now
Wow! Awesome!!! Horses are so calm and well trained! Did u train them yourself? Will be cool to see ur video about how to work whith horses, what commands do u use and etc! Love ur vids!
Максим Сушков I’ll try to do that.
Love watching your horses dig in! How did you get the logs on the cart?
Cynthia Nixon I use a skid steer, if you watch my video called From
Trees to clapboard siding, you could see that work.
Enjoy watching the horses, though I'm not a fan of your buggy. We always dragged logs with the ends a good bit of the ground, can't imagine dragging that stone either. I do agree, you have to keep your horses in shape, the level of work should be equal to the level of exercise. Cheers.
Enjoy your videos and the sharing of your knowledge. In a past video one of your horses threw a shoe. Do you do your own blacksmithing and reshoeing?
Dale Braun I did all my own as shoeing for 30 years. A couple of years ago an Amish friend started doing it for me. If I lose a shoe I will put it back on myself,when that happens maybe I could make a video on it.
The fact that Horses lost their eyes, really saddens me. Makes me cry. :-(
I hear you talking to Lady a lot, is she the dominate horse in the team ? thanks for the video.
I was probably turning her way at the time. There’s not really any dominate horse.
Just a couple questions: Whats the average age of the tamarack trees you log? And how many acres of forest do you have available for logging? How do you estimate how much you can log and still have good trees for your children?
Caleb Mueller I think they were planted back in the 50s or 60s. The wood lot is about 350 acres with a lot of different species.
Caleb Mueller I know a good forester and he helps me a lot
I guess it just replants itself doesn't it? How many trees do you log a year would you say?
Do you get many punches have a good day
Ray Wisdom what do you mean by punches?
Punches in your wheels or are theysolid rubber
Punchers
@@raywisdom2587 I think you meant to say punctures.
Ray Wisdom once in awhile I will get a puncture.
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Its good that you let your horses rest to slow there breathing. Ive work with people who put there horses though Hell.. Then they dont stand why i wont work with them... Just disgusting..
I have no idea what you say sometimes
Sorry will try to speak up
the horses breathing hard is no different than a person breathing hard. You need good exercise to stay in shape.
Right!