Brabant Horse Field Day 2016

[Music] rural heritage on rfd tv is brought to you by rural heritage magazine a bi-monthly magazine featuring articles about farming and logging with draft animal power small-scale diversified family farming and homesteading and other aspects of our rich rural heritage rural heritage magazine borrowing from yesterday to do the work of today for subscription information please call 319 362 or order online at www.ruralheritage.com back and round up what are your horses names this is finn on the right he's a three-year-old gelding and this is haley she's six-year-old are they related they are a half brother and sister i raised them both i bought them as weanlings okay okay you guys ready stop what kinds of things do you do with your horses at home we do wagons and sleighs we just started that when the three-year-olds got old enough to go to work pretty much have us slay trails on my property were you working with different breeds of horses before the bravos i had a i had a north american spotted draft horse okay and so i liked him and i wanted a teammate for him and i couldn't find anything so then i bought this mayor as a wheeling and i liked her temperament so much that i told the fella i'd like a couple more so i have four bravants now i have a perch run and i have a north american spotted guy what do you like about the brobots i like their temperament i like their build and but their temperament is is is the key for me willing they like to work they're calm and you don't get there fast but you get there what are you gonna do today you know little everything i'm guessing is what he's telling me anyway i'm going to be on a cultimulter i'm going to be on wagon right there and hopefully i get to work in the woods a little bit he mentioned logging and i thought yeah we can do this sure that'd be great these two been in the woods already they've been used a little bit this year not a whole lot uh not as much as i'd like but it's getting better they're it's hard to have time right uh we did um we did a uh a ride around for nursing home and sewing we did a rider a circuit ride for uh national night out okay sure okay yep yep it was the first thing and the police chief invited me to do it that's great okay it's easy those are two really good causes and um then the labor day parade we did that was their first parade they've never been afraid before and they did marvelous just awesome then there was um breakfast on a farm oh okay in o'connell county okay and uh that was awesome too you hold people into the farm from parking yep nice that was a good time yeah i thought they like that there's about that o'connell county draws about four four and a half thousand people yeah it's a big one and they put on they put on a pretty big feed to check them out see how they operated and so you're looking at um you've got brood mirrors then you have a couple brood mares yes breeding nightmares yup my perch on mares yes what uh what attracts you to the robots either size or temperament i was up there yesterday plowing trying that new plow that white horse plow and holy i told jason i said you need to sell or go somewhere else this place is rocky he just laughs at me but that'd be the plow to use i guess it's i've never used a newer model like that mines are international older model plow and that one runs a lot smoother that's for sure but i don't have the rocks at home either so here's my new invention i have never tried it today will be the maiden voyage i bought this forged stone boat front it says chaska minnesota on it from the foundry and i got me a little piece of steel on it that's gonna be for one horse skidding trying to keep the front of the log out of the ground put the suck the butt up on the thing with a slip hook once she's got it sucked up on stop your horse move her back hook her tight again when you're going back in the woods empty you can jump on and ride at least that's right haven't tried today it'll be the maiden voyage yeah sometimes you just gotta go for it all right okay girl yeah okay somebody else [Music] there seemed to be a pretty good demand for horse logging i probably turn away a good job every three weeks really and i got work for years ahead of me what's that because of the low impact of the horses yeah well it always comes down to the manager the person doing it you can make a mess of horses and you can do a pretty good job with some machines but always it always comes down to the person but it is the low impact also i give a lot of control to the land owner if he wants to hire me for 20 trees to come in and cut 20 trees and move all my stuff there for 20 trees i submit them a bid well big guys they ain't even going to come message i'm gonna put another one down so you got enough work i don't want you to get [Music] bored [Music] [Music] wow everybody clear there's your first two customers hannah a little more gee oh easy girl a little bit oh girl i think it might work boys it's going up on there back hannah [Music] oh hannah [Music] okay hannah you're okay girl well look at that boys it works you're all right hannah take it easy [Music] okay girl [Music] [Music] so [Music] if you're watching real heritage on rfd tv you probably am come here maya come up here your dad say okay yeah come on up here get up here step on my foot you ain't gonna hurt me okay we got one hand on each side that break okay can you say okay team real loud and say it real loud okay team okay team then give a cluck okay team let me give them a little more they gotta drive there you go feel their mouth okay you got him pull eve a little harder pull this a little harder let up let up on that one because we want to turn that way a little bit okay a little bit more team now when we get past him we're going to turn right next to the wood pile okay okay now pull that side hold that side let eve out pull on buildings pull on him a little harder there you go you got this drive right beside the wood pile [Music] whoa [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] or you can wait right here while you get my hits ready okay okay [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] we put up hay corn silage we thrash beans we thrash oats you thrash the oats and the beans with horses we use a thrashing machine okay all right so you bind them and bring them in yes do you yes we have a uh what a seven foot grain binder and uh a mccormick corn binder it sounds like you're making a go of it and you've been doing it for a long time yeah we have we mean you're making a living at it yes okay yes and you haven't gone big no i was always scared to go big because when we went to the meetings and they said get bigger or get out yeah and i looked at the man's hands and he didn't have any calluses so i assumed he had something to sell me that wasn't going to do me any good it was going to do him good honestly yeah i have never seen a farm get bigger and stay in business the only one was in business was the banker right and he was out playing golf at 10 o'clock in the morning and he was home by two o'clock in the afternoon and the farmer was out there long for daylight and long after the sun set and he wasn't making any more at he just stayed a size he could handle without the debt it was that simple and what did i say it jacob if you can't pay cash for it it's probably something you don't need [Laughter] it's that simple you can do without it you got there without it right you'll do just fine how do you like this plow i like it there's things that i would change but i'm not sure uh the changes will come real quick you said you got a john deere two-way that you used at home is that you that said that yeah yeah you got a john deere two-way that you used at home yeah it's an older plow yeah you like that plow pretty well i like it real well but i can't be judgmental because i always get set in my ways and i'm i have a hard time with new things sure and so this might be the plow for a young man it's does it pull a little hard yes yeah i make my own shears yeah and i hammer them so there's a little section to the land and a little suction down and i the shape of the plow just a little bit of change makes a great amount of difference if you make drastic changes in drastic then you're going you know it's like bracketing in artillery you're not hitting the target and basically i i'm nothing against this plow but i think we've bracketed it in a little too far the other way from my experience with horse-drawn equipment the older equipment is not only made for lighter workhorses not heavy draft horses they're also made for lighter people right yeah you're right i put a heavy man on my cultivator and it wasn't long he had the frame all bent up i did not realize how much weight that man had in the seat no the the equipment was made for smaller lighter people and the equipment was made for work horses not draft horses crossbred crossbreds whatever but this here the main thing wrong here and it's not wrong it just needs to be improved this bottom is for a tractor a tractor has a throttle and it has weight and it has it braces and it can just plow that plow where it belongs but this isn't a tractor that plow has to be shaped and hammered and fit so that it will plow by itself without these wheels and without anything but just the head where it wants to be yes it should just go along when you're plowing by the right point that you hitch to then it will pull easier if that plow was closer to these wheels you see when the soil's pushing on that plow that way it's pushing on that tongue that way so the horses are having to pull that if that plow was closer the moment arm wouldn't have so much leverage do you feel that when you're plowing i can feel it in your body i can feel this plow whenever i hit something solid why i can feel it swinging it's pushing uh into the land and when i and when i'm not plowing much it's coming away from the land because there is no suction but that is uh but that plow you can see the distance from here to there is a tremendous amount of leverage right right and the old plows that was right here it was underneath you i could look down and i could see the point right there yeah it was stable right that's a really good point but i see i see nothing wrong with this you know if i was a young feller and uh i wasn't set in my ways i'd have a green and yellow plow but i'm set in my waves and i like my old plows and they don't make them anymore but when they did they were green and yellow weren't they yeah they were they were green and yellow and they were good plows they were good and they did work this program is available for purchase to order your copy please call 319-362-3027 or visit www.ruralheritage.com rural heritage is a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to draft animal farming and logging as well as other aspects of our rich rural heritage it is published by mishka press which also 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Keywords: Rural Heritage, american brabant horse, north american brabant, draft horses, farming with horses, horse field day, working horses

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Length: 22min 36sec (1356 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 14 2021