Has anyone used horse to get vehicle out of mud?

[ROG]

I have never heard of anyone doing this but am just curious ...

Has anyone used their horse to help get their vehicle out of a situation such as being stuck in a muddy field etc?

 

[MerrySherryRider]

I can't even get mine to help put the jump poles away so I'm guessing there's little hope of him doing anything useful like pulling a vehicle.
Don't see why not though, heavy horses used for logging are very effective, though its probably simpler to use a tractor.

 

[Goldenstar]

A horse could pull a vehicle out of the mud depending on its size and type ( pulling power) and of course the size of the vehicle and the depth of the mud but it would have to be trained to pull as logging horse are trained to pull logs out of woods its a skill they learn .

 

[horsemadelsie]

I would worry about the car shooting forward suddenly and hitting the horse, unless the engine was off. Our horse pulled a harrow round an arena when the ride-on mower that usually pulled it broke, but he'd never pulled anything before and he found it very hard work. Depends on the horse and vehicle and amount of mud I suppose but I would have thought it would be quite heavy. Have never known anyone to try it myself.

 

[foraday]

In the old days!

I remember my grandfather being very proud of his team of 4 shires he always drove on the farm, when one of those fandangled steam engines came to thresh the corn!

Rain happened for 3 days and of course steam engine sunk.

Yet grandfathers team of 4 shires quite easily pulled out the engine, from 400 yards away to the nearest track and then as the 'track' was really just grass, they continued to pull it back to the farm where there was some hard standing.

So yes, in theory easy but like with all things you need the right tools for the job! In this case, properly trained tonka toys.

Ardennes horses are still used for logging especially in conservation areas where having a vehicle track would be counter productive.

 

[Lanky Loll]

About 25 years ago when we still had shires

Dad got his pickup truck stuck in the field whilst fencing. Rigged up some "harness" with halter ropes (didn't have any proper harness at the time as she'd only ever done inhand showing) and slotted in our lovely shire mare. She gave a couple of test leans for want of a better phrase then just walked off pulling the truck behind

After that we decided to break her to harness and she went on to do many displays pulling a boat wagon.