Just ran across this picture, thought you guys might like it

[roaddog]

http://www.groundproject.com/uploads/AlaskanClydesdale.jpg

 

[stihlaficionado]

funniest looking horse I've ever seen...But then it's been awhile since I've been in Maine

 

[woodfarmer]

that photoshopped picture has been around a long time

 

[ray benson]

Picture has been posted before.It's a made up picture. Look at the 2 log piles bottom left and right - They are the same, just reversed.

 

[smokechaser]

I remember this photo too. I thought there was a story that went along with it that described the Brothers who trained the moose to pull the harness. As I recall it was on the up and up.
But I have been known to be wrong before.

 

[wildbio]

tall tale

disproved:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_work_moose_in_harness.htm

 

[PB]

You would die putting a harness on a bull moose. No question about it.

 

[sawyerDave]

Its a Fake...

Along with the other faults noted above, look around in the picture, no squirrel anywhere!

 

[roaddog]

Along with the other faults noted above, look around in the picture, no squirrel anywhere!

I know it's a fake, i just thought it was a neat photoshop since there was another thread about using horses.

Although it may be somewhat impractical to use moose, it's not entirely impossible.

http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=9595
http://www.alaskahistorystore.org/p194.html
http://graphics1.snopes.com/photos/animals/graphics/mooseharness.jpg

 

[Zackman1801]

on that same page they had links to vintage pictures of people in quebec using moose.

 

[joecool85]

You would die putting a harness on a bull moose. No question about it.

Yup. But if you could tame one it would pull like mad, moose are STRONG.

 

[LORENZO-24]

Welcome to THE GREAT WHITE NORTH.

 

[Zackman1801]

although i know atleast here in maine i doubt it would even be legal to tame or own a moose since they are considered wild animals....unless that is if you had some kind of permit or something.

 

[Rowan]

Working moose in Glen Miller ON in about the 20's

Ok, as fake as that picture is.......

I've heard this from some people I work with..... their father's worked at the same papermill we work at. There was a guy in the little hamlet that the mill is in that had a tame moose. The resturant by the mill has all these old historic pictures of the mill and the village...... and wouldn't you know it they had a picture of this guy with a Moose hooked up to a plow (using horse harness). I believe the pic had the date written on it and I think it was in the 20's.

So I do believe its possible, the pic looked like the real deal, and there are multiple people that have substanciated the storey.......


I think this is something I'd like to see those guys from MythBusters try to disprove...... That would make some great TV.

 

[Stihlboy088]

Bobo

My grandpa had a pet balck bear for a while but I dont think he trained it to catch boards off the sawmill. Bobo was the bears name. The only place for a moose though is on the dinner plate as far as i'm concerned.

 

[windthrown]

That ain't no fake! Its just moose logging. See it all the time around here. Except we use elk here instead of moose.

Why, when I was just this high, I'll tell yah....

 

[sawyerDave]

Bobo

And, of course no one wants to see a picture of his bear Bobo!:greenchainsaw: :greenchainsaw: