Posted by Bret4207 on February 11, 2013 at 04:03:38 from (64.19.90.196):
In Reply to: horse power posted by jon f mn on February 10, 2013 at 16:54:25:
Pretty common to see around here. Horses, good ones, can exert more than their weight for short periods of time. Until you work with them you just can't understand how powerful and handy they are. IMO one of the biggest disservices to draft horses is the Budweiser hitch wagon. A single horse could pull that empty wagon around, it doesn't take 12 of them. And a team could pull that wagon laded all day on hard surface roads. Another untruth is the old tale that it takes a 1/4 of you farmland just to feed the horses to work it. Not true at all. But it's been repeated so much it's gospel.
What killed off the horse on the farm was the loss of cheap labor, speed, hydraulics and the fact most any fool can drive a tractor. I love my tractors, but I adore my horses.
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