Tennessee 20 Mule Team - Hauling Logs

[Music] rural heritage magazine in support of farming and logging with horses Yul's and oxen for subscription information please call three one nine three six two three zero two seven or order online at wwlp.com and now rural heritage presents tennessee 20 Mule Team [Music] this here is a full horse evening for the front for Leeds news this is elite Jamie's tied to the Swingle tree in front of the needle behind that that's falling they're leading him and that hooks for the hole to reach once besides the front fold they drive them is the drivers and the same all the way back each set of four is got a lead chain hook the Swingle tree in front and they got each team behind the front full also carry the breast yoke on the middle two on the tongue pipe to carry this part of the weight keep it up and keep them tangled up Seban and each new from the front four bike carrier wires a book back strap it's about four foot long run one side to five on yet and it's got a center piece that's five foot and it crosses over to the mule beside it or the tongue behind it to just allow the mule or horse whatever to pull so much poundage to go out so far and just get so much the load don't get more than his point method are dividing the width of the duck the full horse Havener with the amount of stop being used to give all of them the same amount of pool each move is pulls the same first pressure-wise and each one's got the same amount of pool that way or pull the same amount of weight the ends of lead change there's the lines of course these is a book back strap here's another style of a book back strap and these years ago on the sides of the mule to his bridle only his tails back to the back to the Doubletree and just allows him so much pool or so much leeway to go forward to pool like say this part here the long side goes to the outside of the animal shortened to the inside hooks to the bed of course each side runs through the ring just like but the lines run through the same rings will rube and then this here will run back to the inside of that animal cross over maybe to the Swingle tree of the mule beside it or the tongue has got a place for adjustments on hit and mule on the other side of the tongue does likewise and in late to this meet on this side but always the long side to the outside the book that comes to the inside which that's the reasons we use the short side of this and this year's adjustment if you move was a hanging to the tongue a little too much I always come back here for this quick adjustment 30 seconds just him hold him over there he's holding to further to the right come back over here to the hollow side of Center or even in the center a little more and pull him back in this little and if you leave them too far out before you've got him hooked on the tongue pop it's got adjustments here one holes three inches were to make equivalent of half inch and a half adjustment so you get on three-inch movement because you got a double system where this gives you half of whatever you move the adjustment each animals got this except for the front four and none of the none of the animals has got lines on a per se for his lines drivers got one set of lines goes from plumbing to the front forward and the floor is the only one that's actually drove and then the farmer reviews it Paulo there's more less they have to find and then when the front for stop they have to stop she'll be right here on the end right here no shoot on the inside right there that goes on this side I don't know why now there you are that's where they go right there that's where they go we got 90 foot of lines plus the checks by 12 foot so it there's 100 and what 10 15 inches the lines on so we were longer than a tractor-trailer so yeah that's pretty good and one man and what take one man one man cause there'll be people hanging out in everything but one man's I don't think controls the whole works I told him I thought he's a NASCAR driver he always turned to the left says ger the Kanan khon kaen chained inside now I built this lid back wintertime I couldn't I cut these trees though there's scaly bark Hickory there's 20 inches at the book and I I was trying to copy a old sled from years ago trying to do something from years back and eight foot that's eight foot I mean eight inch runners everything is eight inches and the crossmembers eight inches more distend three-quarter bolts I got loading with the poplar mind stays there eight foot long we cut them in two and seven four - days and it's a good way to get to get the timber out of woods without using the bulldozer and get them to the road and home to the meal is that rough in a situation like this to have one that it's never been painted many people do it shy Joe long Jimmy Tyler J Cup and three them you Skinner's that's all three it would do it you're telling I'm do it I don't I'm Andy mm-hm you made red brick listen to me alright tail [Applause] right benefit well they don't do as much damage in the wood woods I don't have a lot of downtime furs breakage you know three pyres and stuff like that some animal several different benefits something they you know and the deal of keeping everything alive that our forefathers used that late this country but what regimes and stuff was come into heavy existence and things like that one most of our roads now that we have for automobiles was mazing cut out with a wagon and a palm scoop the firearm use or something like that mimic when automobiles came while most of the county roads and some of the state roads still use those routes and of course the state interstates is new entirely different but most of the state routes and county roads is whether forefathers built with wagons and teams sleds on screws all right let him you ain't nothing no better that horny was coming here for part line up for long I have a hard and believe ring doesn't have anything comes back [Music] all right oh yeah yeah yeah come over here and you pull them both man thank you sweetheart I just get too much slack and I'm gonna prune right places like this we're getting fat you know the neck yeah over Mac get over Mac Mac are you talking going one time she's here and she said no so do me time [Laughter] [Applause] let me take a little while to get them just get before they need to be in you know get the edge off of them Hey I mean I want a pilot ember they put out in a week's time with this gang of stock actually got to know whether was just a little oh those leading me was more or less is one am I talking to but the others is here me a talking and they know that I'm asking for something and what they what they they don't know exactly what I'm asking that they they know when I asked that he needed to do something going forward so and they can learn it over new that's not really familiar with me but now then leaves me with a far they play the key one of the key deals and bad in the deal but they've got this they've got to be the main players in this deal cuz if they don't start and move when you call on them or ask them to the others can't yeah they didn't have dozers electrodes and stuff back in these days I just had to use what they hadn't Canberra had to come out of the backwoods town groundless frozen in the winter minutes when they had a lot of time to logo summer once they've done something Logan but they work the ground crop ground in summer months they get to bring that timber out to build sadly a house and say on the barn ain't missing outside John so last reveal he had to have it you parsed it so church so they had to had to get that camera huh you may come here yeah you bet I'm a dad what everybody hey you know you know bring it everything ready to me oh oh right Thank You Me At mobile all right this program is available for purchase on DVD and VHS to order your copy please call three one nine three six two three zero two seven or visit www.ovionmedia.com or PSA's to training oxen to subscribe call three one nine three six two three zero two seven or order online at wwlp.com the end [Music] you

Channel: Rural Heritage

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Length: 24min 19sec (1459 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 14 2020