Additional Income

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

Somewhere on this interesting forum I think there was a post on additional work people do to support income sources.

 

I am interested to know how many people on the forum have done/still do use horses for Agricultural/Forestry/Horticultural work.

[blazer]

Maybe 10 yrs ago I was helping out doing some axe demo's for a college to show arbo students - how it was done, and they found a man who worked his horse pulling trees, so we could axe fell and extract say 15 inch dia trees out of a wood. (The horse man also used his horse with a cart collecting recycleable waste form houses, which like milk float horses keep stopping).

 

At another college, they had set up a man with a his mobile bandsaw with trees brought to him by working horses, ok chainsaw felled.

 

In both cases it was interesting how trees could be quietly extracted along little more than a footpath with no damage. The power of the horse was amazing to drag logs, some have made two wheeled supported aids to reduce friction.

 

Say ploughing horses are now only seen at ploughing shows but often seen with two men to operate, instead of the traditional one man.

 

I haven't seen any since but I'm sure they must be about.

 

I just 'googled' - horse logging - loadsa info and images, good luck.

Edited January 20, 2011 by blazer

[jpbeaver]

The wood I'm felling at the moment is being extracted by horse loggers. It's for the rspb and I think they got a grant for it.

[djbobbins]

Pretty sure the National Trust do some logging work on their lands using horses (where vehicle access would be either too difficult or damage the ground).

[evergreen]

Somewhere on this interesting forum I think there was a post on additional work people do to support income sources.

 

I am interested to know how many people on the forum have done/still do use horses for Agricultural/Forestry/Horticultural work.

 

A friend of mine still uses horses for log extraction. I think his website is forestcrafts.co.uk name Ben May. A good guy

[Ross Macneil]

Hi we still horse log with our two heavy's.

[blazer]

Hi we still horse log with our two heavy's.

 

One fit looking horse

[Johny Walker]

thats easly sorted ,iv just put the wife on the game ,all cash

[Stephen Blair]

ha ha ha

[Robert_S]

thats easly sorted ,iv just put the wife on the game ,all cash

 

There is not much you can do with a fiver though