Horse logging

[cousin jack]

I'd love to have a go. 1 on 1 sound fantastic too. How much would you be looking at a day?

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[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

just would like to know, do you breed or do you buy in? what is the value of a broken in horse?

 

Can be between £2000 -£6000 from the ones we have seen advertised. If one is logging all the time then people tend to purchase a young unbroken horse for a few hundred pounds and bring on with the older animals.

 

Before we started we looked around at all the breeds working and considered the Clydesdale the most useful for all tasks as strong/eats less than some breeds/lots of spirit/nimble on steep terrain/less problems needing the vets.

[Pat Ferrett]

saw this today and thought it might be of interest

[slack ma girdle]

saw this today and thought it might be of interest

 

Holy cow batman, thats going to need more than one horse to pull that with a full load.

[cousin jack]

Good find Jammy where was that?

Two good horses would manage that comfortably, the length of the pole provides the leverage, find the balance point of the log, hook up, pull down and hey presto log comes off floor. These things are still being used today in different forms, think of the logrite arches.

[Billy68]

friend of mine dose horse logging he says you can not use just any type of horse its got to have it in them to cope with the noise etc

[Pat Ferrett]

Weald & Downland Open Air Museum | Home Page

 

 

 

A nice cheap day out if you take a picnic

[blue beastie]

when people ask what sort of horse I've got, I tell them, " a Sherman tank on legs".

:lol:

[Horslogin]

Dear friends in the UK-

Who does your cut and fill or is that a pre-existing road bed?

How steep of ground do you dare work with your horses?

You must have either a pulp or lumber mill near by to deal with those short lengths.

Your harness is comparable to ours in the U.S. and now I know where we get our basic design; in continental Europe the harness looks far different. There is no doubt that the Ardennes horse is superior for both ground leading and forwarding to what we call on this continent the "Belgian". Our Belgian is by all means more versatile than the Ardennes, but this fact is immaterial in the steep, challenging, confines of the forest. I'm impressed with how you've integrated your forwarder designs to fit your forestry and the relationship you've obviously forged with your public. What's there not to like?

[Horslogin]

Dear UK Horse loggers-Western Montana has started into break-up a month early; the roads are turning to mud in the lower altitudes. My hope for all of you across the pond is for a safe and profitable winter season.