Show us your Logging Horses

[NI Tree]

Minnie i love the scales when compaired to the winch and logs

[hawthornheavyhorses]

Hi sorry do not want to hi jack this but any one know of good fly spray that does not cost a fortune thank you

 

Think this needs it's own thread, I've been plagued by horse-flys this year and hate using the DEET based sprays. I'll start one if that's ok!

[hawthornheavyhorses]

We thought we'd start small..................

 

Love it! Would love to put him side-by-side with my 18.2 black and white Shire, it would like be his Mini-Me!

[hawthornheavyhorses]

it the lack of time due to uni and in all in house work and it the wrong type of production as its mostly chip or slective felling due to the shoot but if it is an arch you are looking for the norwegins chains are slightly different sized i have strugled to find chain with the same links over here and i have not used the arch much but i like the way the rachets work but i am less sure about the drag as i would look at Morgan Andersson stuff as it seem well made and i would by that over a kombidrag and i dont like the draft angles

 

The thing I like about look of the Kombidrag is how low it is to the ground, would be useful for par-buckling shortish big diameter saw logs and getting them out of the mud.

 

I used an Ulvins last week (pics to follow) and I loved it. The only thing was that I thought the arch is a little low, I'd like a little more lift for large logs.

 

Morgan Andersson stuff is great - one day I'll get one!!

[hawthornheavyhorses]

This was my job last week, moving timber out of an Iron Age Ring Ditch which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and putting them in place to be used for seating. Trees had been felled in the winter by another arb firm for a combination of safety reasons and to protect the underlying archaeology.

 

I used Roy our 5 year-old Suffolk with an Ulvins Arch and a large Pole Arch from the British Horse Loggers Charitable Trust Machinery Pool:

 

British Horse Loggers

 

Timber had been cut a bit too short by the arb team, but some of them were well over 30" diameter so were pretty hefty. Logs were completely suspended in order to avoid any ground damage.

 

All-in-all a very satisfying job!

[bobh]

Loving that first photo, should be titled "refuelling"

 

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[Cob-logging]

Hi yes start a thread on fly spray please I am trying Avon skin so soft with johba oil in it horse flys a right pain this year

[shavey]

Hi yes start a thread on fly spray please I am trying Avon skin so soft with johba oil in it horse flys a right pain this year

 

thats a brilliant idea we got a gypsy vanner cob he has very sensitive pink skin horse flies driving him mad this year any idea's excelllent :thumbup:

[hawthornheavyhorses]

Fly-spray thread now set up here:

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/horse-logging/75987-good-fly-sprays-remedies.html

[NI Tree]

The thing I like about look of the Kombidrag is how low it is to the ground, would be useful for par-buckling shortish big diameter saw logs and getting them out of the mud.

 

I used an Ulvins last week (pics to follow) and I loved it. The only thing was that I thought the arch is a little low, I'd like a little more lift for large logs.

 

Morgan Andersson stuff is great - one day I'll get one!!

 

the arch would be easy to rasie up with a bit of steel and some welding but i did some par-bucking on the Kombidrag and i was not happy as i the bolsters do not lift out but fold down, and i was worried about them as they make it not easy to get a place to put some wood or steel to create the ramp but a bit of welding i reckon you could use the square box on the side