How many of you know what gee and haw mean?? Without Googling it.
How about single trees?? Double trees?? Haim straps??
If someone hands you two metal shoes, one horse shoe and one mule shoe do you know which one is which??
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the mule shoe would fit pelosi..............
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yes sir I do
I work with engineers and sometimes say this ain't gee hawing when working off of their prints/design
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Was lucky enough to be around my Pap Paw when he plowed some with a Mule.
Also got to do some Mule logging, sometimes with one, sometimes with two, pulling logs out of very steep Appalachian Mountains.
I cherish those memories, and times.
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the mule shoe would fit pelosi..............
Maybe she could wear it as a set of Dentures. Probably fit better than the ones she is currently using.
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We have to go to Chubby Checker in 1961 and his hit "Do The Pony."
"Turn to the left, when I say 'gee' Turn to the right, when I say 'haw' "
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Old antique single trees work good as gambrels for hanging hogs, deer, and such.
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Please do not mention Pelosi and mules in the same breath. A good mule is something special. Nothing about Pelosi is special.
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I was plowing when i was six in 1941. Plowing a double team at age 8. Know all about a "georgia stock:", "breaking plow", "distributor" , and all the other things used on a farm.
Anyone ever use a slide?
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I knew about gee and haw from watching shows about the Arctic and dog teams. Never in actual use. And know nothing whatsoever about anything equine, nor do I wish to.
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I grew up on the farm when we used horses for most things but I have to admit I never drove a team so didn't learn gee/haw. I did, when I was 5, have the privilege of riding a run-away on an empty hay wagon with my 10 year old brother trying to hold the lines. I didn't ride it out: when we went through the ditch, the wagon bounced, I went up, and when I came down the wagon was not under me any more. A year or so before my brother died we were talking about that incident and he said, "That was my fault!" I said no way! You were 10 and doing a man's job (we were not big kids). You didn't have a man's strength or a man's judgement but you got 'em stopped with no harm except a scared father and grandfather and my bruised behind.
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Yep, I've worked a few teams.
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My grandfather skid timber with livestock when I was little. Yep, I know.
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I can tell the difference between a mule, a donkey, and a burro. That is about all I can say. Mule shoes? 😁
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How do you think I got this crooked smile? I geed when I should have hawed! Don
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Yep
As a kid I worked for a select timber company and saw mill. They used mules sometimes to skid logs out of the woods. I never ran the mules, I was running an old Poulan Chain saw with a bow on it bucking the logs, but I watched the guy who worked them. Very cool.
One time the loader broke so these old guys made gin pole to load the logs and powered it with 2 mules.
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Okay..................why did someone hit diver-rigs post with a "Disagree?"
Anyone want to Man Up?
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I also know what a geehaw whimseydiddle is !
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Didn't know about there use with mules, but did with dog sleds, probably could tell the difference in the shoes...
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I know gee. I know haw. I think I could tell the difference between a mule and horse shoe, but I am not betting a lot of money on it without seeing them both first. I know single trees, but I have never heard of double trees or haim straps before.
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Mule shoes are a different shape- sides are straighter and longer. Mule's hooves are different shape than a horse. When I was about 4 i would ride on my great uncle's mule- facing backwards- so we could talk while he was working. Yes, learned how to harness a mule. Learned to hate rocks, since I had the job of walking alongside a rock skid, picking rocks from the garden and tossing them onto the skid.
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Chme you are dead on about the difference between a horse shoe and a mule shoe.
Haim straps run from the horse collar to the single tree. One strap on each side of the horse collar going to each side of the single tree. You then hook the two single trees to the double tree. If you know anything about leather work you would enjoy watching a skilled harness maker sew haim straps. Multiple layers of thick harness leather sewed together.
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I learned those terms as a kid from reading Little House on the Prairie books... The Wilders used them driving their horses. :)
Stay safe.
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dreher: 31515420948891/comments/31515450148379
Please do not mention Pelosi and mules in the same breath. A good mule is something special. Nothing about Pelosi is special.
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Mule
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dreher: 31515420948891/comments/31515443161243
Chme you are dead on about the difference between a horse shoe and a mule shoe.
Haim straps run from the horse collar to the single tree. One strap on each side of the horse collar going to each side of the single tree. You then hook the two single trees to the double tree. If you know anything about leather work you would enjoy watching a skilled harness maker sew haim straps. Multiple layers of thick harness leather sewed together.
We alway called them "Tugs" and folks that used chains called them "Traces".
To us, the haim strap, buckles the Haimes at bottom of the collar and has a heavy snap to hook to the neck yoke. A lot of older harness has no snap, but long heavy leather strap to attach to the neck yoke.
we have 5 sets of harnesses to fit everything from a 600 lb pony to "tonners", all built by the same harness maker, who has unfortunately passed on.
The "Tugs" he built were multiple layer heavy duty nylon webbing with thick biothayne on the outside, super strong and much much lighter than leather tugs and easier to clean and maintain, but these were the only non-leather parts in the harness he built
RIP Monte Piquet, teamster, horseman, harness maker and friend.
BTTW, I use Come (left) and git (right)
Mule
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Who knows what "jay or Jay hole" means? "Jay" Grabs?
Those that logged with horses should.
Dad and Grandpa use a team of oxen for logging, plowing and such.
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Don't to start a ruckus but, Gee means to the right and haw means to the left. The haim strings we used on the haims, top and bottom. No buckle, tie a knot in one end of the leather string, run the string through both metal loops then wrap the string around the knot, loop a couple of times and it will hold or break.
We used chains back to the single tree. Leather straps would not have lasted very long when the breaking plow hit a solid stump. We called these chains, trace chains. Very heavy gear for logging and light gear for farming. No belly band for farming.
As a child, I had mules and horses run away with me often. No problem unless they were hooked to a plow or wagon.
I can remember several uncles having oxen, but I have never plowed with them. Oxen are mean to anyone they don't know.
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I have a friend that was into dog sledding.....that was where I heard those terms used....
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- Gee and haw
- Gee and haw are voice commands used to tell a draft horse to turn right or left when pulling a plow or other farm equipment, or to direct sled dogs pulling a sled or sleigh. For horses, in the U.S. "gee" generally means turn right, while "haw" means turn left. In England, the meanings are reversed, but as James Lloyd Clark points out, "Generally, work horses are not subject to a lot of international travel so the fear of great confusion on the farm is minimal." The English meanings are used for sledding in Alaska and Canada.
I think this is why it is so confusing which one is right or left
old world(England) and new world(United States)
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Our Scout Master was always teaching us 'stuff'. He worked as a Lineman for Detroit Edison and taught us the various line voltage. He used to quiz those of us in his car while on the way to a campout.
He also introduced us to Gee and Haw when he made a Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle.
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Hobo, what part of the country are you from. I know there are people that can and do use oxen in all parts of the country but I was under the impression most people that use oxen are in the northeast. Is this correct??
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