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Hi all...

So after years of having 2x Suffolks & a Small black thing from as young as possible to get their heads right, they are now getting old enough to start work.  

The plan is to try and create 2x full time posts based around the horses!

Initially role will be:

Fell etc.

Extract with horses, still in training, oh and entire! to load area.

Bring back to farm with machinery.

Process with firewood processor

Onto drying floor.

deliver / or post dry logs.

Down the line will look at alternate options with horses and timber products.  However, at the moment only have 50acres of 20yr old first thinning to go at so timber <300mm.

We will mix in the hardwood from Arb work to supplement during early phase whist horses coming up to fitness etc.

 

This section of the business is highly unlikely to ever make money, however, I would like it to cover costs.  As a result I will have limited wage capacity initially, although if it works great then I'll have lots more flexibility.  I was thinking 1 experienced & 1 less so! 

 

So the reason for this post is:

Anybody interested in jobs like this?  If so let me know.

We're based in Leicestershire but cannot offer camping, lodging, stabling.  But may be able to assist in this respect.

 

If you have experience in similar to what I'm doing and want to offer free advice please get in touch also.

 

Thanks Mike

[email protected]

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58 minutes ago, beddowtreeltd said:

Hi all...

So after years of having 2x Suffolks & a Small black thing from as young as possible to get their heads right, they are now getting old enough to start work.  

The plan is to try and create 2x full time posts based around the horses!

Initially role will be:

Fell etc.

Extract with horses, still in training, oh and entire! to load area.

Bring back to farm with machinery.

Process with firewood processor

Onto drying floor.

deliver / or post dry logs.

Down the line will look at alternate options with horses and timber products.  However, at the moment only have 50acres of 20yr old first thinning to go at so timber <300mm.

We will mix in the hardwood from Arb work to supplement during early phase whist horses coming up to fitness etc.

 

This section of the business is highly unlikely to ever make money, however, I would like it to cover costs.  As a result I will have limited wage capacity initially, although if it works great then I'll have lots more flexibility.  I was thinking 1 experienced & 1 less so! 

 

So the reason for this post is:

Anybody interested in jobs like this?  If so let me know.

We're based in Leicestershire but cannot offer camping, lodging, stabling.  But may be able to assist in this respect.

 

If you have experience in similar to what I'm doing and want to offer free advice please get in touch also.

 

Thanks Mike

[email protected]

Good luck with venture Mike. Thankfully some people still have the patience and dedication to use horses in a working role. As for breaking even well that’s a different story as from my experience horses are a bottomless pit when it comes to money, but at same time there are worse things to waste money on ?

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8 hours ago, beddowtreeltd said:

Hi all...

So after years of having 2x Suffolks & a Small black thing from as young as possible to get their heads right, they are now getting old enough to start work.  

The plan is to try and create 2x full time posts based around the horses!

Initially role will be:

Fell etc.

Extract with horses, still in training, oh and entire! to load area.

Bring back to farm with machinery.

Process with firewood processor

Onto drying floor.

deliver / or post dry logs.

Down the line will look at alternate options with horses and timber products.  However, at the moment only have 50acres of 20yr old first thinning to go at so timber <300mm.

We will mix in the hardwood from Arb work to supplement during early phase whist horses coming up to fitness etc.

 

This section of the business is highly unlikely to ever make money, however, I would like it to cover costs.  As a result I will have limited wage capacity initially, although if it works great then I'll have lots more flexibility.  I was thinking 1 experienced & 1 less so! 

 

So the reason for this post is:

Anybody interested in jobs like this?  If so let me know.

We're based in Leicestershire but cannot offer camping, lodging, stabling.  But may be able to assist in this respect.

 

If you have experience in similar to what I'm doing and want to offer free advice please get in touch also.

 

Thanks Mike

[email protected]

Brilliant,be a great way to work,best of luck,hope you make a go of it

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3 hours ago, topchippyles said:

eustace conway from mountain men on the discovery channel is one of my favourite programs and he does exactly what your looking to do (brilliant) 

I’ve watched that show Les and if as a kid I’d shown the same level of incompetence that guy does when working horses my father would have beaten the shit out of me. I could yoke a horse into a cart including harnessing up on my own way before my tenth birthday, biggest challenge was the collar !! with bigger horses. You don’t realise as a youngster that you are doing anything special or out of the ordinary as it was just what I was brought up with. But trying to explain it to my own kids I might as well speak Swahili. Funny thing is I’d love now to have a good pair of the little 14,2 or 15,2 cob type things we used and put them to work in the woods but as any horse person knows the amount of time required in the background is prohibitive in this flat out bullshit world we live in nowadays. I take my hat off to anyone whom manages to pull it off. 

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