Amish horse logging
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2015
- Experience nature with this short video of Amish logging with horses. The horses listen with voice commands or with the hands of a child on the lines.
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It is so wonderful to see horses with a job.
These horses are a treasure. Obedient, calm, responsive. More important than strength is disposition. A noble animal the horse. Without the horse, man's history would be rewritten.
I am amazed at hoe quiet and responsive these horses are. The ones I worked with when I was a young guy were extremely spooky and would run away if you laid the lines down.
thank you for sharing.
Your very welcome
Smart loyal workers ! Good video Tina
Thanks Mark
Your very welcome Tina.
I didn't think Amish used chainsaws. Never mind, I figured it out. :) Pretty horses!
They don't, the guy using the chain saw is not Amish.
Yes, very pretty. Draft crosses?
I am not sure.
Sanni they r not drafts horses just regular horses. u can tell by the weight and height
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How does the chains hook up to the logs there dragging along? ? as they are pulling the chains off them quickly and easily so how do they attach to the logs. If anyone knows please reply as I might give this a go with my Standardbreds around the farm. thanks Darryl
There is a flat steel with two hooks or clevis's I believe that attaches two the horses harness. And then a separate chain wraps around the logs and hooks to the jig.
The short chains they are wrapping around the log to drag with has a grab hook on each end. One end is hooked in the center hook of the stretcher behind the horse and the other end is wrapped around the log and and hooked back to itself with the grab hook.
When I skidded logs in the 1960's I used 'skid dogs', made by a blacksmith, attached to the center hook of the 'stretcher' and the 'sharpened dogs' were hooked to the end of the logs, a very quick hook and unhook speed. The ends of the stretchers were hooked on each side of the horse with 'trace chains' and was held within the harness to the 'collar hames' by attaching to an adjustable 'logger head'.
It appears these horses have a 'plated trace chain' (chains in leather) with short heel chains for hooking the stretcher to the harness. Also, it looks like the 'hames' are custom made to fit each horse's collar and the 'tug rings' are a part of the manufactured 'hames', eliminating the need for the adjustable 'logger heads'. It appears that much of the modern harness' technical terms are different than I used in the 60's decade. Google mule or horse harness.
When driving a horse 'check lines' (now called 'driving lines') are used to guide the horse to the right, left and stopping. When 'working/driving the horse with voice command you say too the horse 'gee' (for moving to the right, 'haw' (for moving left) and 'whoa' for stopping.
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A simple chain with a "carbiner" on one end. The chain loops around the end of the log. The pull tightens it. When the log is out you open the "carbiner" and the chain comes off. The same with a strong wire.
Otherwise there are so called logging hooks, like scissors, that tighten when pulled. You can even lift the log upwards with it onto a sled which means that the horse has an easier pull with only one end of the log touching the ground. Look up "lunning" in Swedish and you´ll find out.
how do you load the logs on to the trailer the Amish way?
By hand in wagons, not trailers.
They cut the wood there with the saw at the very beginning then load it on a wagon pulled by horses. This wood was used to build a maple house.
is the "wagon" what is in the beginning of the video? what is the second trailer off the wagon? It is easier to load logs in to an uncovered wagon than a covered one?
Yes the wagon and the belt driven buzz saw are in the beginning of the video.
Pulpwood logging with horses is a slow way to go for very little money.
These are farm horses clearing dead ash from the owners own property, they are not used exclusively for logging. They do whatever relevant tasks are needed for a functional crop and livestock farm such as working the land and pulling wagons. Overall they have a good life, they are at rest in stall or pasture 90% of the time and work far fewer hours in any given year compared to you and I.
what breed of horses?
I'm not sure. when i find out I'll post it.
My guess: Standardbred x Draft. Very nice, whatever they are.
Right. These are heavier half-blood horses bred for harness work. They are tall, usually +16 hands and well muscled or standardbred = warmblood with only tall and heavy parents, stallion and mare. Even so called light draft horses used to pull wagons.