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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This one is worth a HAW HAW, but not until they turn right
And here's a major GEE....
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Some of the old folks around here that have gone on made whimmy diddles and sold them to stores that sold folk art.
They made several toys, paddles, dancing men, dulcimers, and the likes.
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Must have stumped my toe!
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When I was a kid we had a truck farm with veggies. I cultivated with a horse and he always knew which way to turn at the end of the row by himself. Cant remember ever using those terms. If he occasionally stepped on a plant by mistake, he knew he did wrong and got real nervous. I made the mistake of getting on his back once on the way back to the barn, and about halfway he started to run, knew water and feed was waiting. He didnt step on any of the flopping harness, but I sure got my arsh kicked. LOL always walked home after that.
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I knew a few but was lost on the Haim straps .
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I DID learn one very valuable lesson about harnessing a mule to a wagon- harness has 3 groups. 1. Communication- used to tell mule to go, stop, turn. 1. Go- harness that lets them animal pull the load without choking or hurting. 3.- the part that I had missed- harness that STOPS the wagon. Without it, mule stops quick, wagon keeps moving forward, The GO harness slides forward, and off the animal.
You are now left holding #1- communication- the reins. Which you wrapped around your hand. That will be the method where the mule communicates to YOU what a bad choice you made- as he drags you right off'n the wagon.....
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Mule is like a collie dog, work with you for years and bite the fire out of you.
When you are hooking one up and he looks back at you with is ears laid back best be ready to jup far and fast.
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Yup, had draft horses (rented with their owners/drivers) at the farm to move people from the parking area to the Christmas trees and back.
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I did not know, I googled.
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At my last move twelve years ago I gave my neighbor the heavy horse set of harness that my Grandfather bought in the 1920s when he mowed weeds for the city of Topeka. I had had them oiled and hung up for several years. I still have a pair of mule collars and one "new" single tree. The single tree is painted red and still has the price marked with wax pencil. It came from my BILs Dads closed hardware store. Behind my barn I still have a walking plow, walking lister and dirt slip. I don't know why. When I was a kid I had a neighbor still farming with horses, so I did get to help put up loose hay and once got to help hauling bundles to a steam belted threshing machine.
I didn't know until I had the harness oiled the process. They put the harness in a wire basket, lower it into a stock tank filled with water with a couple inches of oil on top of the water. They totally submerge the wire basket through the oil into the water. The water opens the pores in the leather, then they raise it slowly through the oil layer.
I was about eight the first time I tried to drive a team. They were hitched to a corn wagon and my Grandfather handed me the reins. On my first attempt at driving one horse stood still and the other turned clear around and stepped across the wagon tongue. It was a mess, but not a total horse wreck.
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"That mule, Old Rivers and me".
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Butchdog2: 31515420948891/comments/31515437309979
Mule is like a collie dog, work with you for years and bite the fire out of you.
When you are hooking one up and he looks back at you with is ears laid back best be ready to jup far and fast.
Hah, you think it's tricky hooking a MULE up without getting hurt?
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I live in Amish country and have always been in awe of Amish horsemanship. Running a horse cart or buggy along our fast and busy highways takes a lot of skill and faith! They train their kids at very young ages using ponies here on our secondary dirt roads.
I share the roads from my car or truck and always go slow and WIDE around them in my travels. They always wave and show appreciation with actual smiles.
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So just what kind of pulling power can you get from a moose as opposed to a horse or oxen??
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DAMN!!!
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Left and right.......................and I did not Google it.
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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.
Actually it's not Pelosi who should be mentioned with mules..............but Ocasio-Cortez should be.........that girl has a set of horse teeth and gums if I have ever seen it.
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Brookwood: 31515420948891/comments/31515472509595
I can tell the difference between a mule, a donkey, and a burro. That is about all I can say. Mule shoes? 😁
How about Muleshoe Texas? Close to Amarillo where I grew up. Used to have some family in Muleshoe................random thought
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When I was a kid during the 1980's had a team of quarter horses that I broke to drive. I also worked for a guy who raised Belgian draft horses and helped him break several teams. Its been 30 years since I hitched and drove a team but still remember "gee" and "haw."
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