When did we start working for the horses?

[Loosehorse!]

Tonight 4 owners managing 5 horses between us, stood scratching our heads as we tried to work out how best to up-turn & roll large round bales between fields to best serve our precious babies.

Those babies stood watching, chewing thoughtfully on their nutritional dinners. They lazily flicked flies from their muscled haunches, no doubt comparing war stories passed down to them from their equine forefathers of bravery and might pulling huge cannons through Flanders mud.

As we puny humans wiped the sweat from our brows and picked each other up out of the dirt we thought, "If only we had some weight bearing, solid pulling machines!"

 

[eahotson]

Tonight 4 owners managing 5 horses between us, stood scratching our heads as we tried to work out how best to up-turn & roll large round bales between fields to best serve our precious babies.

Those babies stood watching, chewing thoughtfully on their nutritional dinners. They lazily flicked flies from their muscled haunches, no doubt comparing war stories passed down to them from their equine forefathers of bravery and might pulling huge cannons through Flanders mud.

As we puny humans wiped the sweat from our brows and picked each other up out of the dirt we thought, "If only we had some weight bearing, solid pulling machines!"

Brilliant. The same could be said of dogs and cats.

 

[Gonzo]

It’s so true! Years ago we had an old harness knocking about & used to use one of the ponies to pull bits about. The yards access was poor so hay & straw were left at the gate. Pony loved it as got lots of sly nibbles while we were faffing about

 

[Gloi]

An old pony of mine had the misfortune of being hitched to a bullock who had inconsiderately died in a stall at the end of a corridor too narrow and winding to get any machinery down. Between the pony and a couple of farm lads we pulled it out.

 

[Lucky Snowball]

I used to get a bale of hay onto the horse and climb up behind then ride to the field in a head collar. All the horses were ok with it.
Better than struggling with a wheelbarrow.

 

[dorsetladette]

My 3 watched me doing similar yesterday after they destroyed a new bale which then got rained on. I forgot to charge the fence battery but I blame them! The air was blue!!

 

[cosmic389]

This meme sums it up

 

[PurpleSpots]

A few years ago, a friend of mine got frustrated waiting for her son to harrow the school, so we came up with the solution that I'd teach her horse to pull the harrow around instead .

It was thought of as a bit of a novelty - seemed perfectly reasonable to me!!

 

[humblepie]

We were on holiday in Spain and there was a horse on the property next door. His stable was a converted garage and his turn out was the unfinished building plot. The lad had been riding him one day on the building plot and when they finished they harnessed him up to a round log and the lad stood on the log and the horse pulled it round to flatten the plot back out.

 

[Orangehorse]

An old pony of mine had the misfortune of being hitched to a bullock who had inconsiderately died in a stall at the end of a corridor too narrow and winding to get any machinery down. Between the pony and a couple of farm lads we pulled it out.

Completely off topic, but there was a very lengthy thread once on a Farming discussion group about how to get a dead Shire horse out of a stable at the end of a narrow passage! I never did find out how it ended.