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Update ... When we went from one mare to the team it got complicated ... Huge turn arounds required , no backing up to the hitch , the horses turned uncooperative... Oh and ass deep snow...so we are not taking sawlogs now but will continue firewood with one horse on weekends ...

also , I've noticed I'm in much better shape from the horse logging which helps as well ...

It's not a terrible situation ... Plan A was to harvest the firewood leaving the straight material for another day... Plan B is to harvest the better stuff now as well ... at least I have a plan ... it could be much worse ....I was hoping to wait on the sawlogs until Mill prices improved.

...update , due to a horrible economy and the need to keep my house . Scope of the project has grown from firewood to sawlogs. We will try to harvest for mill checks as well ... It will still pile up on the landing slowly , but a few bucks coming in sure would help right now... It will take a...

So tomorrow we will work One Belgian skidding ... If I can catch up on saw work to make some big turn arounds , and the Horseman finishes building the scoot ... we will try a team on the weekend ... Twice as much Horse Power ! also I won't have to run behind the Horse to the landing to undo the...

Joel those photos are great! , the second shows really well how hard everyone is working to pull the scoot . Which looks heavily loaded , were they taken at Guilford ?

... funny how all motors , including the biggest Diesels made , are still measured by Horse Power ....and always will be ! ...

Hey Blacksmith ... what a GREAT link !!!!!

She LOVES pulling logs , also seemed to like the action when yarding at the landing as the logs moved some ...

Ive heard people here say a team of Oxen can out skid the Belgians...another BIG difference cutting to logs in the woods , the waste all stays in the woods. On large IP landings here every so often, or at the end of the job they run the dozer to manage all that stuff ... sometimes the dozer...

Thanks for all the great information everyone ! TREE HOUSE ROCKS ! ...Joel , go ahead and post those here if you like just to show the Horse really , and thanks ! ... I'm awfully curious about the Amish Loggers with the antique arch , Double Bit Axes and Two man Crosscut Saws for them ? Probably...

sweet loader Dave and a REAL nice looking team

since all of us are in this part time with other stuff going , as well as the acreage being mine , the idea of lowest possible impact on our chosen work days is important...there are very few wet areas and we will avoid rain cycles...firm soil conditions will be here shortly no doubt. I still...

Did a part day with one Horse (mending an bad hoof issue well but only works part time right now) Beautiful 7 year old Belgian Draft who is still learning ... got some logs out ( seasoned , nice at this time year ) ... It was the best outdoor experience I've ever had ! ..It's been real cold the...

anyone that knows me is familiar "off norm" ... we will try to get some pics and put'em up ... (of course Butch or Joel will have to help the dial-up challenged ...)

Gee , and Yaw ... got it ! thank muchos Joel

... couldn't find the old thread "reverse logging" ... for at least three years on thirteen wooded acres I have been cutting firewood quality trees , limbing and burning the waste leaving tree length pieces to be forwarded ... also been cutting a series of skid roads ...the lot is kinda small...