Can you run a Farm with just ONE Draft Horse??
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 เม.ย. 2022
- Today Ken is helping Jim & Brenda show many of the things that one draft horse can do around the farm! Many people may think that you can only run a farm if you have a team of horses, but there are many jobs that just one horse can do!
Watch our videos to learn about draft horses- horse logging, horses farming, and horse training! Jim uses Belgian, Percheron, and Suffolk horses to do work on the farm and in the woods. He teaches about harnesses, horse-drawn logging and farming equipment, horse feeding and maintenance, and voice commands for horses. New videos uploaded every week. Keep watching to see how Jim trains his new Suffolk Punch colts as he has trained his full-grown teams!
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Thank you Jim and Brenda. I think that a horse should never live alone. If they have a friend even a goat chicken or donkey It will make their life better.
They sure don't like to be alone, you're right, even a cow or goat would be a great companion for them
David Munro - I had a sweet Welsh pony ( Taco Bell ) to keep my horse company. He was a 400 lb chunk and I was hoping to find someone to cart train him. Taco could be a brat though. He would crawl on his knees under the electric fence to join Houdini and I on our trail ride. I would hear the sound of tiny feet running down the tar road, accompanied by desperate winnies! Hated to lock Taco in the barn, but sometimes that was a necessity. He was chestnut red with a flowing white mane and tail.
Saw the bed clothes on the drying line too Brenda. I wonder how many know the feel of 'crisp' sheets and the unique smell and freshness from outdoor drying. Amazing - it's been ages for me too...
Hey there Jim and Brenda, I hope you're all well and good!
Jim my friend, you are a blessed man, Brenda truly is your "help meet" she works hard at just about everything.
She reminds me of my mother when I was a boy growing up on the farm, and her always helping dad do whatever it was he was doing.
I hope y'all have a good one! 🐎👍🇺🇸
Thankfully she really enjoys what she is doing. Thanks, you have a great day too!
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I absolutely love hearing Jim speak his “Jim horse” language to the horses. 😀
More of that coming up on next video too!
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim So Good hearing Brenda and Jim Laughter ... when jim didn't pull corn trailer Pin hahahaha good on you Both 💌🤟
I remember my dad talking to horses that
Yep! Jimlatin!🤣‼️🙋♀️☮️🤭🥰
Brenda is getting a pretty good workout chasing Jim and Ken around the field. 😀
Yep!
may I say brenda you did a great job , loading corn onto the wagon. jim thank you for taking me on the fencing, I wish I could be there with you and brenda to give you a hand.I think ken did a fantastic job today working by himself. god bless stay safe, say hi to everyone for me .. jim dartmouth nova scotia canada.
Thanks, Jim. If you were here, we could put you to work!😄
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Ken is so well trained it is amazing. Every time I watch it is incredible
He listens well.
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I'm going to say the slab wood is hickory. When the video first began, I thought Jim was working with someone else's horse. Ken looked so brown instead of black. I thought maybe a neighbor asked Jim to help work their horse. Ken looks brown in his belly area. Is that just because new hair is coming in as the winter coat sheds and will darken later on? I hope the new ditch will help that area stay drier. I sure do remember you hitching up all 4 horses to move that huge boulder last summer. That was amazing. Ken loved his corn cob treat Brenda! I agree, he earned it today!🥰
Usually the sun in the summer lightens it up. His summer coat is coming in. Yes Ken did earn it!
The nice thing about your type of farming, it requires many different jobs in a day, thus not boring!
Brenda, Don’t feel bad for horses working. You folks use them wisely and compassionately. Their work is good for them. They look pretty happy to me.
And, Ken will get his ear of corn as a thank you for his work. 😀
Yes, they are pretty happy
Great video. Thank you. I'm glad that Ken gets a little bit of extra spoiling. He so deserves a treat. Ken is such a beautiful horse. He's quite a sweetheart.
Evans 👋
I saw the pin still in the drawbar but I hollered to late. 😂 The look on Jim’s face was priceless. 🦞
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Brenda, you need to get Jim to author a book using his vast knowledge and experience with regard to the horses. Very informative and entertaining.
Yes it's a lost art.
Audio record it every day then, write it up later- think Tuesdays with Maury.
It's amazing how well your horses respond to your verbal cues. You're the best!
Just found your channel.My grandfather used draft horses on the family farm in indiana .He gave demonstrations at fairs with his horses .He raised and trained dutch heavy draft horses . I wish i had learned all he knew , he did teach me how to ride he got me a quarter horse that was mine when i was on the farm .I have very good memories!
Sheets on the clothesline! How fresh !
I'm with you Pamela, I don't own a tumble dryer, all my cloths are line dried, the smell is so much better when they are dried on the line. Best wishes from the North Norfolk coast UK
Yes, they were very fresh!
Good evening Jim and Brenda,Brenda before you said it l was thinking how Well our gorgeous Ken worked on his own and he really looks the part.... l did think if he was going to squeeze into the shafts,he's a big boy and incredibly handsome.....l know l keep saying it 😁 Jim you had a very cheeky almost wicked smile on your face when Brend was astride that water looking at worms 🪱 lol ....but you new Brenda 😆 Looking forward to the next video,l have driven several times but only the one horse and l loved it,picking up 2 to 4 people at a time on the carriage to have a wonderful ride into the village.....that was a summer job. Wishing you all the very best 🌱🌱🌱💕
He looks nice driving by himself and he does well at it. Yes Jim might have wanted Brenda to fall in😄. Sounds like you have a nice time driving!
Both of you are so, so cool ! I LOVE your videos. I get instant happiness when I see you have uploaded another of your adventures. Blessings to you.
Yes and we can't wait for Friday,right Claire..
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Nice to see you guys working to make the farm a better place
Michael 💞
Love your videos and enjoy watching them every time they come on. Enjoy seeing the horses work
Glad you like them!
What a proud and gentle horse Ken is. Really enjoyed watching him work! One has to be very patient when teaching a horse to pull, otherwise they might refuse one day - even more strong draft horse breeds. Ponies sometimes tend to exaggerate by themselves 😀 and then they also have enough power to become hardly controllable then..
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Good afternoon Jim AND Brenda yes I'm keeping an eye out for the time when you start your seeding, have a great day you two.
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I love that you are working with horses. I have always wanted to learn to drive and work horses! I ride and have trained a few but never for driving! Absolutely love your videos. Makes me believe that I could do it too. Thank you both and may God bless your fields and yourself!!
Thank you both for taking us along with you today xx
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Brenda getting good at filming...nice sweeping shots.
Looks such a calm life..well done ,thanks for the video.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Brenda is one hard worker. Good woman!
Super job Kenny, Brenda and Jim.
Such good work. Ken seemed very comfortable w/ his work load. Worms habitat the soil. You must have fertile soil. Looking forward to Friday. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching. Yes, it was great to see all those worms! Ken seemed to do well working alone
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I'm glad to see you both together
I do the same thing trying to round up all my layers at the end of the day. Love watching you guys.
When I was a kid in Bavaria in the 40s and 50s a good many small farms had only one horse to do everything, sometimes one could see a horse hitched up with a cow.
That is interesting! Jim has a carving that his dad brought back from Germany which is of a cow and a horse pulling together....some sort of a long barrel on wheels.
I have seen one old photograph in a horse magazine, it was during or after WWII that a family hitched up their plow horse with their oxen with a wagon filled with their prized possessions.
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim The 'long barrel' probably was a 'honey wagon', as it is called here, a container to transport and spread liquid manure. In Bavaria we called it an Odelwagen.
We always called it the honey wagon.
Must everyone else said manure wagon.
One thing nice with only one horse is that's more hay for the dairy herd.
My neighbor had one cow that produced 100 pounds of milk per milking, you would not believe it til you see her milked.
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That horse loves to pull, you can see it in the body language. Living the dream
Great teamwork...Jim and Brenda and Ken... great video ...THANK YOU.
Thank you to you both ....a great posting. Jim , you are blessed to have such a wonderful wife.
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Tout cela vous garde en forme! Vous allez vivre jusqu’à cent ans!! J’aime beaucoup vos vidéos.ça m’apaise de regarder comme vous travaillez avec calme avec ces chevaux. Ils sont vraiment très beaux! Vous en prenez soin et c’est bien.
Love you guys ! So informative and pleasant to watch . You both have a kind way about you and it shines thru when you work with your animals. Thank you for setting a wonderful example to all . Keep on keepin on. The best to you all from central Michigan ! 🤠
LOVE the wash drying on the line!
Basswood slabs? Great video guys, I always get a laugh when Brenda talks to the horses lol. Its good to see you all enjoy to good things in life.
Thanks for teaching us all. Amen ..tell Ken good job
Kens ears were back over the fat joke but a cob treat creats a lot of forgiveness. LOL.
Speaking his love language😄
Brenda, I am Glad you called Ken F.A.T. as when I first saw him at the beginning of the video, he has had a very relaxing winter. lol. Yes and I do have that problem keeping my gear tidy as I use it and it kills me wandering where I left it.
Brenda you are so easy going, nice video
Thanx for digging the drainage ditches and putting up fencing to keep big curious creatures out of the water.
You Ken do it with one horse! Looking forward to Friday
Glad to hear it!
I love horses my daughter rides, your videos are so great makes me feel how much I miss my dad .
Wonderful video!! I need to watch your series on hitching. Y’all work so hard-you both are inspiring.
You say a Good team , I see a good team every time i watch this show JIm @ Brenda . Have a great day.
Thank you, have a beautiful Easter.
You too Mark. :-)
It’s pretty cool that Ken isn’t trying to rush back to his buddies. He’s quite happy to be partnered with Jim and doing his job. That attitude fits nicely with what Jim said about a horse’s belief in himself.
Thank you for sharing.🐄
Just watched this video, Brenda you don't need a Gym membership for sure running in boots in mud shoveling corn and what ever else you do for chores. Then go and cook dinner you are the binder of working horses with Jim
great video. Brenda and Jim
Great video! You have to be able to laugh at yourself, none of us are perfect and need to enjoy the journey.
I must admit I love your percherons the best! The black coat is very pretty and the shaved/roached mane is very sleek and handsome on them. :)
He's adorable. I love horses.
Yes, he really is
Thanks for talking us out in your fields to see your drainage work.Looks good and should do the job.Brenda you are a very good camera woman!! Keeping up with Ken is hard work!! Thanks 😊.
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I stumbled across your video and was so impressed by both of you and Ken. One very happy subscriber from England.
Yah know... Watching you guys is better than watching a western. You're entertaining but also educational. There also isn't any violence or Indians.
This was a variety pack video,,,loved being with you guys,,,and Brenda glad you gave him 2 cobs,,I wondered if you would...xx
Easy , no horse kolic.
Ah ha, yeah, Ken was really into that cob.
He must have been hungry after a good days work.
Yes! Two cobs but no salt or butter!
I was always impressed with my grandfathers horses as to how much they could pull. Gramps always used a team of percherons and dad used a pair of Allis Chalmers tractors! We actually changed the poles on the wagons and the ground driven manure spreader for use of tractor or horses. We didn't use a cart like you do. I only saw gramps drive a tractor once. When I was about 7yrs old, dad and mom took a rare weekend off from the farm and went to New York
City for a wedding and gramps used the tractor all weekend to spread manure. I'll never forget gramps saying to me and my brother " don't you tell your father about this".
Haha, thanks for the funny story!!!
My family was the other way till I was 6. Dad drove horses- 2, 4 or 6 depending on the equipment, Grandpa had his 15-30 McCormick on the plow or duckfoot cultivator.
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Chores and more chores ... always enjoy your videos.
Wieder schönes Video, die t-shirts sind gestern angekommen,sind schön,ich freu mich sehr darüber, 1000x Danke.
I think you and your wife are doing a marvelous job on your farm! I am enjoying the thoughtful work you do with your horses! You have developed a trust with your horses they do what you ask of them and that’s trust
My spread is not near as big as yours but I worked a single for 15 years. Mark and I back filled our house, plowed the garden, cut hay and loaded it with a hay loader and plowed snow off the drive. I'm too old to keep up with him now but your story sure made me miss days gone by! Thanks for the memories! Keep ur tugs tight!
Thanks for sharing, sounds like you did lots of work with one horse!
Beautiful huge horse
I love that your wife is helping you and filming some times love to see spouse working with her man I lost my wife oct 25/2021 but she was so sickly any way I going to start raising garden again I don't have but 3 acre farm and have field for grazing have small one and larger one going to usey mini donkeys this year some have to adapt my harness so I can hook up like your D ring harness I like how it hooks up love watching y'all have good day
So sorry to hear about your wife. Hopefully the gardening goes well for you this year. That is so interesting that you will use miniature donkeys in harness. Will be interested to hear how the D ring harness set up works
Sempre existe trabalho num rancho e com vocês não seria diferente, amo esses grandões 🐎🐎, eles fazem a diferença e com certeza a maior parceria entre o homem e o cavalo. Deus abençoe Jim, Brenda e toda sua família!!! Saudações do Brasil 🙏🙏🇧🇷🇧🇷❤️❤️🐎🐎🐎🐎😍😍
Saudações! Obrigado por assistir. Espero que tudo esteja bem no Brasil
Wow this video is absolutely unbelievable; I've never seen soo much work being done by just ONE woman
i remember your last video you mentioned your post sometimes come out of the ground. i asked my grandfather about that and he new immediately that you were using pointed posts. he said he learned 50 yrs ago that constant freezing and thawing in the winter pushes pointed post upward.
Good one,thanks Jim,
Glad you enjoyed it
Wisconsin? Darned good horse and a pleasure to watch him work.
Always love the videos 👍💖
Nothing better then freshly drying sheets in the fresh air,lovely smell.
Yes, they smelled great
Super interesting! The ditch looks good. When you talked about the recent rain, that Bible verse came to mind: "The LORD makes it to rain upon the righteous and wicked alike." The Lord also makes it to rain upon the fields and driveway alike 😆 but it's a good reservoir when it soaks into the ground, for future crops, so there's that I guess. I enjoyed this video as always 💕🐎
haha, you are so right!
I love jobs like shoveling corn. Good work out, can go at your own pace. Looks like a big job but it gets done.
Kenny really going to town with that corn LOL well deserved treat!!! Most people want sports cars or big trucks, me? I want me a well tamed hard working draft horse LOL
The ways you both communicate with Ken and the way he responds is so wonderful. He is such a good horse. I love the way you talk to Ken, Brenda. It would probably be amazing to know how much he really understands. And Jim, you are so patient with the horses. I've never seen you being harsh with them. And your trailer is a really good looking one. Happy Easter to you and your family.
Thanks very much, Happy Easter to you as well!
My grandpa used a team of drafts, but early settlers used a single horse and the farmer behind with a single bottom plow in between. Amish usually get a section of land and divide the land between crops and dormant. Then as his family grows he divides it off in 80 acre plots.
Ineresting!
Keep up the good work, and hello from Tasmania.
On your wagon, I noticed all the wood used to enclose the tongue. You could add some weight under the rear of the trailer to counter all the weight the wood puts on the tongue of the trailer. Just use some carriage bolts and bolt some of the scrap pieces you had bundled on the other trailer to counter and make the tongue lighter.
But the total weight goes up and increases the load for the horse(s). Perhaps the axle a little further forward- however it was likely planned for balance with a full load and tipping back would be much worse than tongue heavy.
Hi from the UK. Love your channel. Great video 👍
Hi Michael, glad you are enjoying the channel. The UK looks like a beautiful place!
Thanks for sharing i enjoy your videos
Even though some chores can be done with one horse, I tend to believe that a horse like to not be alone, he prefer to do things with his buddy.
May I add that I like how Brenda interacts with the horses, since I'm french I'll use carefully the terms that I found on Google traduction to describe how I understand it. She manifest affection, endearment, that sort of sentiments. I find it sweet ... I'd be more like Brenda than like JIm, even though he's a fine and sensible horseman. Or, could he be reluctant to show it.
Your channel shows many unique side of hormanship ... I like it a lot.
Printabou = Gaëtan Dupont.
Beautiful horse, I can tell she is your best horse. 👌
Excellent video.
Just found you today and love your content! I have roughly 40 disused hillside acres in mid-Missouri, working toward a silvopasture grazing system on terraces. The cart you're using with interchangeable trailers looks perfect for the kinds of stuff we do routinely, hauling small timber and equipment. Any idea if a single horse would be able to pull a subsoiler/Yeomans plow, or would we likely need a team? Off to watch more videos...
The ditch is doing a great job have a day love from TEXAS
Hi Tina, yes it's working well
Yes you can do alot with one horse. I use mine to cut hay with a one horse mower and use a dump rake and a small manure spreader, haul firewood and do carriage rides
That is great to hear! Good job!
Thank you Jim and Brenda for this excellent video! I truly enjoyed it and I know it’s going to help someone out there who is considering getting a team of horses and now they’re going to realize how much more they can do was just a single horse. I thoroughly enjoyed this video and even though I’m not considering buying a horse I learned a lot from you and I wish I was standing on that sled when you took out is Kenny? and he was pulling it with ( all the fence post for you) ! .. that looked like a breeze to ride on!!!!😊😊😊♥️♥️♥️
PS-I think it’s Cedar wood on the rack
Way to go Ken! This was a great video , very enjoyable. Thanks . Jim you did a great job with that drainage ditch.
You have the ditch deep enough that evendors if the grade is off a little it will find its level and keep flowing, you will see where the shallow spots are aND maybe take out a few more scoops. Nice ! I was wondering about that. Endorphanes ellivating as spring work picks up. Love it.. cool cart. Keep up the good work. Happy Easter Weekend Coming up.
I think I am going to work a half day on Friday.
Time to reflect.
Happy Easter Bunny. :-)
Owe, is that Basswood?
I did not think that was the Hickory.
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Must admit I agree with Brenda on everything including Ken's waistline :-) My ponies are fat too but my friend's has lost weight and we (including vet) can't find a reason so that puts things into perspective
Glad to hear it. Hope your friend can find out what the problem is. Also, thanks for sharing about how you build fences in the last vid, very interesting!
All you need is a good horse and Jim’s 40 yrs of experience.
Ken seems like a good boy.
I believe it is Bass Wood slabs Brenda!! I hope I paid attention the past videos
Haha, you're right!
Yes Brenda I have the "where did I leave my coat?" for many days spring and fall.
Yeah, me too, I always have many pairs of gloves because I misplace them while working and or get them wet in the snow here in Alaska. Brenda , you are not alone on this , Ah ha
great video. love the horse. you two work well together.
FYI. that first trailer sounded like you need to grease it some.
God bless
Minature horses were used to carry 1000 pound loads out of coal mines. They cost less to feed and can be used in small gardens. They live 32-35 years.
It is amazing how many (do not know the technical terms) belts and chains are needed. In other videos I have seen use of many horses when clearly fewer would be quite ok.
Ken is quite elegant.