Draft mules at work

[John Ellison]

Here are a few pictures of my log skidders doing their thing.

Please skip this attachment

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'm only getting half a picture there, John. On both posts.

 

[John Ellison]

Operator error. I need to study it more.

 

[glens]

You need to let the upload continue through its course before closing the window or changing its contents.

Before you do that, you should resize the image to something useful and friendly.

Glen

 

[John Ellison]

Again

 

[glens]

This is still pushing the modem-friendliness limit, but nice pic anyway!  Shrunk and sharpened a bit.

Glen

 

[Newfie]

Nice a$$ shot.

 

[bushman]

How much wood do they a day.

 

[bushman]

sorry i meant how much wood aday can they pull.

 

[LogRite]

Now that looks like good, old fashioned, honest work! I would be like a fish out of water around horses. It almost looks like fun. I'm sure it's not though. Thanks for the pix!

 

[Crofter]

They look in good shape; what are they crossed with? If the near one was a horse, I'd say you will soon be resetting the shoes. Do you do your own shoeing?

Frank

 

[MasterBlaster]

I don't know diddly about horses, but that horse logging looks to be tha shizznit!

 

[John Ellison]

Thanks for the comments. Its more like what I can do in a day. They seem to be a lot tougher than I am. They are out of Percheron mares x Mamouth jacks. No, I have a farrier come (usually to wherever I'm working) to shoe them.

John

 

[Husky372]

nice pics john thanks for sharing.

 

[JohnVander]

Is that kind of work for fun, or profit?

John

 

[John Ellison]

Originally posted by JohnVander
Is that kind of work for fun, or profit?


John

A little bit of both. Here is one of my wife with the team. I was probably napping under a tree.

John

 

[John Ellison]

My first log truck.I had to work with a couple of turkeys!

John

 

[John Ellison]

Older Mack truck/Prentice loader.

John

 

[BigSawMan]

I bet the Mack scares the horses, you ever had that problem?


Neil

 

[John Ellison]

No BSM, they are used to saw and truck noises. They dont like to be sprayed with sawdust though, probably think its yellow jackets.
Here is a skidcart with a turn of small saw logs. Notice the fly nets. They work good on biting flys, not at all for stinging Jellow jackets.

John