How Much Can One Horse Do??? First Time Attempting to Ted Hay with a Single Horse
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2021
- How much can one horse do?? This is our first time attempting to ted hay with just a single horse. Today we take out Bill, our single Belgian horse, and ted some hay. I also do a little mowing with our Percheron team, Ken and Buck, and show you a little mishap we had.
Watch our videos to learn about draft horses- horse logging, horses farming, and horse training! Jim uses Belgian, Percheron, and Suffolk horses to do work on the farm and in the woods. He teaches about harnesses, horse-drawn logging and farming equipment, horse feeding and maintenance, and voice commands for horses. New videos uploaded every week. Keep watching to see how Jim trains his new Suffolk Punch colts as he has trained his full-grown teams!
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I love that all of your horses are in excellent condition. Thank you on behalf of those with no voice! I have seen so many sad horses that end up at auctions in terrible shape, it makes me smile just looking at your horses. I’m sure your’s are happy! ♥️🙏👍🇺🇸🤓
There's something really satisfying watching horses work together, or alone, the gracefulness of their movement is awe inspiring.
Brenda you have done a fantastic job keeping up with Jim on a hot day, thank you wonderful pictures. Best wishes keep safe and well, Carol and Sue from the North Norfolk coast UK
Good evening Jim and Brenda,what a fantastic horse Bill is,,he was listening to everything that was being said....just wonderful.You don't see the heavy horses in the fields anymore or very very rarely such a shame 🤔l do remember sitting on a fence or in a field watching the horses working for hours on end and getting told of for getting back home to late 😄 Good camera work Brenda thankyou.All the very best 🌱🌱🌱💕🇬🇧
Hi Jim, aw poor Buck and Ken I do hope they're not feeling sore after falling in that ditch, what a good boy Bill is working on his own without a care just wanting to please his dad, maybe a little extra in his evening meal hey, lol, Jim your horses are great and always good for you, what a credit they are, sending hugs to you Brenda and all the horses and Luna your cat. xxxxxxxxx
Good job Bill pulling that spreader and also good job Jim's wife on the camera shots thanks and God bless
I can hear Bill saying "What is all this junk? I trust you to keep me safe!" Such a good boy! Brenda needs her own pony cart!
Thanks Brenda for all your work. Makes the video so much more informative.
You are so welcome!
I really appreciate your explanations and the fact you have the real life sound instead of music. Enjoyed the video! God bless
Some people enjoy the music and some don't
Brings back good memories
Good job done.You never know when some thing might happen.But with steady hands and good stock thing turn out ok.It’s always nice when you can hook a horse single.Best of luck with the rest of haying.
Great video..but then they all are.(come to expect no less)..great to see single horse in action and good to see when things aren't as perfect as we would like (down hay etc)...just goes to prove yet again how much trust and faith your horses have in you when you try something new..great work..thank you
Thanks Mick
have a great weekend Jim et Brenda. thanks for the video
Rustic, rural and wonderful. Thanks again.
Our pleasure!
Nice tribute to Brenda, Jim. Swath board comment make perfect sense to me but like you said, many have never mowed with a sickle bar mower or even farmed, let alone with horses. I appreciate you're showing what one horse can do, more than one would think. People have to realize, most original horse drawn equipment was designed for "lighter" horses, most teams were hybrids of draft horses and not pure heavy horses. Still, every horse has it's working limits.
Hi Jim, thanks for that nice video. Please be careful with your and the horses health for the future too. Farm on, Andreas
Thank's for sharing
Thanks for sharing Jim.
Thanks for watching!
Nice video. An idea to mark where you have raked or whatever....toss a small can full of flour to mark your runs. Easy peasy.
Tks Brenda
Interesting as always. Pretty tough tedding wet hay. Thanks for sharing.
Great videoing, Brenda great quality and awesome closeups 👏
good job thanks for the video
Thank you!
Another good video Jim. Looking forward to the next one. Glad your horses were not injured in that ditch.
Thanks
Hey Jim, if you ever have the chance to buy a one handed grease gun, you'll never go back to the type you have with the long handle. I grew up on a farm with the type you have and always hated having to use both hands to operate the grease gun w/ no hand left to hold the nozzle on the grease fitting. The one handed model still uses the same large grease cartridges just like the one you currently have. Great video as always!!
Ive used both types grease guns. Trust me.... when you have fitting that takes lots of pressure to get it to take grease a one hander wont do the job ! Most of mine were difficult to get to take grease. After all....thats the reason for the long handle More force ! Also used the cartridges. Those are a total joke.....and mess ! Used the bucket transfer for years. No cartridge mess. Clean direct to the gun and easy !
The phrase...Will Work for Food...comes to mind...
Beautiful hay crop! Bill really is a fast walker. I really love your videos!
Thank you!
I have a i@j mower coming monday. very impressive how well you do with the #9
I always enjoy your videos 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🐎
Bill is just a very good horse, that anybody would appreciate. I surely would.
While this tedder is good for grass hay, it might knock a lot of leaves off if clover is mixed in. Around here, we hardly ever use a tedder, even with a thick stand of hay, because it is so hot during haying time. In Bavaria I never could put up hay without tedding it first, often several times.
Here, we always ted the hay, true about the clover. Tedding knocks off the leaves a lot.
Happy Father's Day Jim!!!
You're videos are Awesome love the horse's Brenda does great videos
Wow,we sure could use that much rain ☔️ here in Wisconsin. Hope thinks go well for finishing haying. Thanks.
We are very glad for it, it was getting very dry here, hope you get some soon!
Bill did well! Good horse.
So nice to watch your haying videos and how well the horses and equipment work. Do you mow over the lodged hay again?
Summer gift for Brenda - an e-bike. That, or a course to train in the use of a drone camera :).
This is Brenda- I love the exercise but thanks for thinking of me. I'd probably crash trying to ride and e-bike and film :)
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim Brenda: a 3-wheeler?
Love big ol draft horses
Thank you for sharing with us your "Ted Talk" ;)
haha
If you are in New Zealand, using Manuka poles (hardwood, quite tight grained and springy) for shafts and tongues may be a good idea. They seem to take the weather really well. My wife is still using an older one for our old-fashioned stick-up washing line stick-up pole.
Sounds like a good wood, have never heard of it. Glad you can take advantage of it
Watching Ken when he was going backwards and side wards makes what I would call a very capable draw horse. Very intelligent 🤓. I hope that is the proper name what Ken does and he is called a draw horse. Correct me if I am wrong.
Have you ever used the I&J mower? It looks like the cats meow but pretty $$ even using the #9 conversion. What about a ground driven tedder? Something elegant to me about ground driven equipment... I suppose it would require two horses though. I can't do it any more, so it is nice watching someone work horses!
Sounds a bit like the sort of day you and the horses were lucky to survive, no-one hurt and you seem to stay calm and take it all in your stride. Kinda testy when a horse goes down. I now see that tree down as a warning there was an unseen hazard ahead, so you fell in your ditch! Staunch horse, he wasn't even trembling when you got him all together again. I guess they do have the odd incident, fit and tough enough, they don't seem to get muscle injuries easily. Drive in a post and flag the ditch! Greetings from Australia.
Good idea
Farmers tedded hay many years ago. Most bar rakes had a lever to shift from forward to reverse. In reverse the rake fluffed the hay up to dry.faster. Not sure whether they used one horse or two.
Hi Jim,
I have a question about the mower for working with pair. I have a mower for pair but the pole is to short. We have north swedish draft horses. How long does it need to be? Which kind of wood should it be?
Kind regards
Richard from Sweden
My uncle worked a team on a farm that worked 40 head of horses a day.
Wow!
WHOA!!
Man, what a thumbnail pic! I like big butts and I can not lie. My big babies are my heart. Love your videos.
I attach a short length of lightweight dog chain or rawhide to the pin that goes into the bottom of the hitch pin. That way, it doesn't get lost and is always available and leaves your hands free. I use it on dump carts and rear gates on my carts. Another thing I do is buy a bunch of red or orange reflectors with adhesive backing. I put them on the back and sides of carts and tractors and anything I may take out on the road. They are cheap insurance to make sure other drivers see you. A neighbor was killed years ago backing out of his driveway plowing snow and a kid on a snowmobile didn't see him. They can avoid an accident, are cheap, and easy to put on. All farm equipment that goes out on the highway should have as many as possible. They don't stay on forever however and need to be replaced. I also use them to mark my woods trails with a decking screw with a hole drilled thru.
Thanks for the suggestions, it's always best to do what you can to try to be safe
Bill is such a good looking boy lady steels the show but he is one great looking horse .so cute when he turned like dad whay is that ? As long as i can see dad
He's a good horse
I would like to use my team to Ted hay (I have no tedder yet) . If you pull it with a ground drive forecart, is the pull about like a hay rake or does it require more effort? Would I be better off with a Grimm-style tedder? I would rather have the rotary type, if possible.
I have a rotary mower conditioner that would be awesome for down hay, need an 80hp tractor but would save soooo much time. bought
if it doesn't fit use the Andrew Camarata method of making it by fit by using a chainsaw. enjoy these haying videos
Great video Jim well done. Your wife must b recked running Round after u. Well done to her.
This is Brenda- I love the exercise, thanks for watching!
Hi Brenda. Well done. Ye all do fantastic work & excellent Video's. Well done to ye all. I watch all the Video's. I'm from Ireland.
Ray
Good combination of horse & mechanical power to be able to use one horse. Power cart might be handy in logging too?
Handy for farming but not much use for logging
The Belgian horse logo you use for your UTUBE channel, is that by chance a pic Bill or Lady?
Jim, happy father's day to you...
I've been asking myself the same question for a while. How much work can a single horse do? I may be mistaken but I believe that horses were smaller in the old days and worked as singles most of the time.
Romans actually used draft horses to pull the chariots, the stagecoaches used a cross with drafts.
Jim needs a old school bus seat for that buggy
Is the sky really that blue
It is really nice day but a little cool
It was a beautiful day! We did not edit the color in any way.
Gee I get all kinds of questions watching these.
What all do you do with the 13 hp Honda engine?
Is that the one you used on the corn picker?
Do you use it on the baler?
We use it with the Tedder, corn picker and we have used it with the baler
Awe...poor horses when they fell 😢. Brenda, you have to be in super condition to follow the horses, it makes me tired watching!😆😴. You do a great job!!😊
Agreed, Brenda is amazing. She has the energy of a teenage. Always amazes me the effort she puts in to help Jim out
I haven't seen you doing anything with Duke and Earl lately. How is their training going?
They are doing well...stay tuned!
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Was there a swath board on the mower?
yes
Do you and/or Bill take breaks...for water, lunch, whatever?
would one horse pull a ground drive pto cart and a tedder, or would you need 2?
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Nice job.great to see how well a single can work. How long were you out tedding? I agree with you about safety. My shafts for my forecast are metal that rise up about a foot from the attachment point to make them a bit less angled. I dropped the single tree down to the attachment point level though to keep the line of draft better. I put rubber caps for chairs on the ends of the pipe to protect the horse. I had to have the single tree replaced once after my Belgian mare pulled a 2WD truck up a hill when it was stuck due to a wet field. Great video as always.
you need to get brenda a pony and cart to follow you around... or an Ebike..lol
haha
I always thought that horse hay could be lower quality because they could be supplemented with oats
They do get nutrients for from hay that are not necessarily in oats, and also people feel that there are more minerals in later cut hay
I wondered if you ever do weddings or funerals with the horses??? Also, have you ever taken them into town for things like groceries.... just for the novelty of it? Used to have an old gentleman who worked teams of mules (actually I think his main income was breeding, training and selling to the Amish) he would haul a body to the cemetery (a few miles) for $300.
The horses were used in several weddings for family members, no funerals. Just not enough hours in the day to use them to go to town, but it would be fun to do sometime
Get that girl a 4 wheeler.... or at least some new sneakers. Lol !!!!
are this hay specifically for you to sell?, or just to feed your horse
He needs a lot of hay to feed over the course of a long winter.
How many hours can you work a horse doing this in a day?
Use yellow tinted sunglasses and youll always be able to tell were you been in hay
Interesting, will have to try that!
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim i always were a pair of yellow stihl safety glasses...it blocks the yellow color and helps you see the green..has really made a difference for me...hope it helps you my friend
How far from Niagara Falls are you
6+ hours
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim thank you this is my favorite show have you ever explained the parts of the harness on a video?
So Tedding hay means fluffing it up to get it ready for the bailer??
Yep, ready and dry enough for the baler.
Какой город?
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jim, wife should go in front of the horses all the time and see if there is a good path for the horses so that they don't get hurt ..
I reckon drive in a post and flag the ditch.
In a perfect world, she could do that, but there is not enough hours in a day
it's great that you have a sense of humor
That's not to much for a single horse! Makes sense to me!!
Why not cut hay May 20 so its more tender..better qualilty.....light crop so it dries faster ? Weather plays a part I know.......but until June .....say 15th ? Get an extra crop too ! This is kinda like cutting trees !
True, but we never seem to have the weather at that time of year and it can't all get done at once
I know swath boars are, broke way to many in my life time!
Boards
hope them horses......drink water when its hot out.....hope they do.....he fell....well when u get back looks like u need to wash em off.....cool
Nope didn't understand most of it. Haven't heard of a teder before. I know what a rake is. Different operation when your just cutting silage to go in a pjt.
yes, much different operation
Less than a 2200 lbs bull .
Why don't you mark it with steaks? That way no horses with injured legs
It would have to be a very stake to be seen but thank you for the suggestion
It seams to me maybe you should think a little about your horses. Like the Boulder pull to calculate what it might weigh plus dragging through the loose
dirt. Lucky no muscles or tendons were pulled.
WHY DON'T YOU BUY YOUR POOR WIFE A 4 WHEELER SO SHE DON'T HAVE TO RUN JIM . SPEND SOME OF THAT MOLDIE MONEY . HA HA LOL
You do this you tube stuff for the money...Right?
just a little nosey there buddy
Definitely raking in the money on these haying videos. Probably got bales of cash for just this one.
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@@willbass2869 Very funny dude...