My Grandfather had work horses and kept them up until the 80's, long after they were retired from plowing when the John Deere took over that task.
Now I live in a large Amish area and during plowing season sometimes there will be team of 8 Percheron's walking down the road, all harnessed together - 4 in front, 4 in back with an Amish guy walking in the middle guiding them down the road to the plows or disk. (Oftentimes you can't see the guy - he is right in the middle) They are huge horses. They don't move fast but they sure can work. Then other times there will be a situation where a giant 4wd tractor equipped with 4 dual tires comes down the road and meets a team of 8 horses. Both are on their ways to do some plowing and both are taking up virtually all of the road. What a conflict - in so many ways. Old vs New etc. I have a '55 Case 400 tractor. Much newer than an LA. ;-) Dave On 3/22/2012 10:24 AM, gene heskett wrote: > We didn't even have one of those, just King& Colonel, 4100 lbs of > Percheron between them. Best team of horses ever AFAIWK. I'd buried a > Case LA while plowing the south 80, near a windmill that was never > disabled, so it was a bit muddy. Those two horses, pulling on about 75 > feet of 1/2" log chain between them and the buried LA, picked the middle of > that chain clear of the mud by about a foot, and that LA came out of the > hole. Daddy gave them 15 minutes to get their wind again& we went back to > get the 4 x 16" plow I'd pulled the pins on and left in the sinkhole. A > well cared for team of horses will kill themselves for you with nothing > more than a couple tsk tsk's from whomever has the reigns. They, needless > to say got an extra can of oats each& split the rest of a pound of WW-II > rationed sugar cubes that night. By 'the rest', they'd already sampled > about 6 cubes each before being asked to lean into the chain the first > time. > > Memories, of times long past... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
