Taking a Sleigh Ride/ Cleaning Off the Pond
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ธ.ค. 2024
- Today @Working Horses With Jim , We cut a little wood, and then take the draft horses on a short sleigh ride and clean off the pond.
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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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Miss Buck and Ken together but I’m sure you both do even more so. They were a great pair.
Nothing like a beautiful matched pair of Percherons - Buck and Ken looked so good together!
Very nice Jim. It looks like a lot of effort in such cold weather.
It always amazes me how you get the horses to respond with the most minimal of verbal commands.
I can’t imagine you ever yelling or ranting and raving 😀
The majesty of those horses is unmatched.
I love all your videos!!!! Thanks for bringing us along to enjoy what you do on a daily basis!!!
Thanks for watching!
Its so beautiful there. You guys are very busy. Thank you for sharing. Have a great week. Stay safe. From PEI Canada
Thank you! You too!
I always liked it when it was cold and the horses hooves and the sled runners squeaked in the snow.
Finally got the snow and cold. I stayed warm as I "rode along"😉👍
Love it, the jingle of the harness and the rattle of the chains.
Hi
Love the two boys Jingling down to the skating rink. Thanks for great videos Ken an Buck sure wear pretty in the new snow ❤
Excellent film today, as always, brought back soooo many memories. of my childhood 60 years ago......sleigh rides, skating on the pond, and those beautiful horses......
Glad you enjoyed it
Omg I love this video, reminds me of my younger days skating on the cow pond and helping Tom and Sarah with their team for weddings. Thank you so much for sharing this video. My husband and I would pay for a sleigh ride and a day of skating on the pond, can't find a vacation like that...nice to hear from the wife in the video too,
Thanks for watching, glad it brings back good memories!
I just don't think a sleigh ride through those woods could be long enough. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
You bet!
I remember Saturdays as a boy and My dad would spend most of the day hauling hay into the yard to feed the cows for the week.
My Dad, me and my dog. ❤️❤️❤️
Sounds like good memories
Great job guys!!!! I’m glad you have some help Jim!!! At our age we need all the help we can get!!!
Right!
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim he seems to know his way around and not scared of the hoarses or hard work
Love the music, Great Video. Really relaxing..,
Love all the timbet🌲🌲🌲
When the snow sounds like that, my dog can hold it forever! Fun memories of skating and cold. Our neighbor used to clear our skating patch with a plow attachment on a garden tractor. Lucky us.
Haha! Thanks for watching! It was cold.
Another very good one it’s always nice to have a helper makes things go faster
👍👌🇨🇦❤, gr8 stuff Brenda & Jim
Thanks for sharing your day with us .....keep safe and well from Norfolk UK
Thanks, you too!
Thanks for the sleigh ride.
Beautiful scenary
Never tire of watching the teams in the snow, today was an easy one for them, no weight. Beautiful scenery.
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed
wonderful 🤗🤗🤗
how beautiful
real life ❤
buck and ken look like they are enjoying\\\\ themselves. makes me homesick for Vermont. great video GOOD TEAMSTERING.
Glad you enjoyed it
what a great place for a slay ride. thanks.
Wow! That brings back the memories of helping my Grandpa hooking up the Belgien horses and getting ready for the Sunday Afternoon Sled ride.
Another super video!
Reminded of a couple memories and Prince & Charlie. They both weighed over a ton each. Well broke, weren't worked too much. First problem at his age, harness pulled on his shoulders, lifting them on the horses. He built a snow plow out of oak 2×6's. Worked good. Probably the best road around. He didn't take the gravel to shoulder and ditch. He didn't mention until much later, but those big old boys were pulling on his arms and shoulders.
He sold them and bought a much smaller team. He got what he wanted done, but didn't hurt him as much.
Thanks for sharing the memories!
Absolutely majestic................
love this video,it reminds me of the old days on the farm
I love watching your videos. I find them very entertaining and relaxing. I am actually learning something about work horses. I know it's hard work keeping up a farm and caring for your animals. You make it look enjoyable. Keep making these videos I look forward to each new one you produce.
Glad you like them!
if you love what you do its not work and i think they do love it i think i would ....
I wish your channel was around before my Dad passed, may have kept him with us for a year or two longer, he was brought up working a farm that only had horses.
Hello to Brenda. Always good to see you.
Hello Salty! Thanks!
You live a good life , hard work but rewarding, enjoy your channel
Thanks 👍
That was a nice little adventure for the day. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
Another nice video. That is a big fire box. Horses look good and the pond looks ready to go. Take care, Al
Thanks, you too!
Thanks for the video. Love the perspective and just the calm it provides.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just beautiful Jim!!
Glad you like it!
What a splendid video! Thanks for sharing.
This video was a perfect end to my day.... supper is cooking in the kitchen, we have a little rabbit tracker snow in KY, and a sleigh ride vid to watch. I am not old enough to have seen horses in use much around here but you are bringing my moms stories to life. Things she described but I couldn't visualize.
That is awesome!
Hello Jim, I always wanted one of those stoves, Just wasn't in the budget I guess. We always sell the best wood to the customer lol thank you for taking the time to video
Absolutely beautiful horses
Thank you!
hello Jim and crew: what a pleasure to see this video. i cut wood for my fireplace. i burn oak and chestnut here in the southwest of France. Pine is available. it pop and cracks too much the chestnut and oak, burn hot and the heat last. nice to see you relax a bit Jim. nice to see you let go of the reigns :-)
Thanks for sharing! And thanks for watching. Pine does pop a lot
Hello Jim, just stopped by to say Hi and to let you know I'm watching. Ed
Hi Ed
I was looking forward to a sleigh video. It seems like there is always firewood to cut. Thank you for sharing!
I feel I’m in the wagon.awesome
I love the first song
Another great day with the team and Justin and the wife. you're blessed Jim. Oh the firewood! I took down a big Willow out in the yard and had a hired man that just put in a wood stove and wanted to know if he could take the Willow I cut up. I said "Sure if you take it all!." he grinned and took it all. about a week later he came back and was grimacing. and told me I took advantage of him! said the wood smelled like Urine ! I said "Really" I didn't know that!" Grin Grin. Hey! it burned didn't it!.
As a youngster my dad use to hire out with a team.. I'm 76 now , as i remerber sitting on a side cutter all those years ago. so much fun Als my dad had a 53 ford pick-up . he had a block ice route, People would put a card in the window asking for .10- .15 or twenty -five cents of ice. My dad would chop a peice of ice. that was for a four door ice-box. He had a rubber shoulder apron, and carry it over his shoulder, with a large pair of tongs. My ob was to empty the zinc lined water tray from the bottom of the ice-box. such great memories.
Thanks for sharing
I always wanted to do that
Next best thing. I think its good to see how people do things in other parts of the country. That was the best good vid. Like the way you explain things. Thanks jim. May god bless
Thanks, God bless you !
I read Brenda's story on the blog. A great story.
Thanks from Brenda
I love ❤️💕your horses and the sleigh ride! It’s so beautiful with the snow covering! I don’t envy below zero temperatures though!
Thank you so much!
This is a beautiful ride. All that exercise should take some energy off the team. They look so good moving in the snow. Justin drives well. Thanks for sharing 🐴🐴❄️😷👍
Yes, the work is good for them. Justin is doing a great job. Thanks for watching
Hard work the firewood and clearing pond you got some good helpers thank you for sharing we would burn 10 cords a winter I grew up in rhinelander where it would get to 20_30 below without wind chills! Come in with frosty eye lashes!!
Wow that's cold!
Very Nice video.
Thanks!
Another great video Jim! I love the way you change it up sometimes so it's not always the same type of video! Keep up the good work and we'll keep watching!
Thanks 👍
Looks like fun.
When I was in the Army down in GA, the WW2 style wooden barracks didn't have any heat. What they did have was a coal fired boiler for hot water. Three barracks made up a company and each had a boiler that had to be kept stoked while the rest of the company was out training. We received a day of training as a firekeeper and maybe once or twice we stayed back at the barracks all day to make sure the troops had hot showers when they came in from the field. Woe be the firekeeper who let the fire go out. They showed us how to bank the coal to the back so it would draft upwards and last overnight and also during the day. One firekeeper was responsible for all three barracks. It was said to be the most efficient use of the coal. Not sure if you could do that with your boiler or not.
Thank you Jim. Need some jingle bells.
Will try to. put them on for an upcoming video
I was waiting for a Horse and sleigh video Thanks. PS Now That's a real wood stove!
You bet!
Good video, but as I have hear from comments that in real life when I walk to the barn I only hear the noise that is nature not added music. Always love your videos.
When I grew up in Sweden in the 50's we did all that but only ever used one medium sized horse that handled everything.
For the sleigh ride day you add bells to the horses ?
Could you show us your kiln some time please ?
Sorry we forgot the bells, will have to add them next time!
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim Yes, please add the bells. Gives the ride such charm.
Hey Jim 👋, great video
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow! Big stove! How does it heat your house? Nice music as Justin is driving the sleigh through the trees. The Boys really picked up speed as they were headed back. Neat video.
Looking for those calendar shots
Sell the best and burn the rest. I thought I came up with that saying, must be I heard it somewhere. I burned a lot of basswood and popple last winter in my o w b. I split it last winter and was shocked how well it worked. Seemed to get about as much heat out of it as unsplit oak beech and maple limb wood. It was stored in woodshed and really dried out well. I cut it 32 inches.
Our o.w.b works great, we love it.
It's about 30 degrees here. We are in for a snow storm. Suppose to get 10-18inches of snow.
We are expected to get some tomorrow as well
Great video. Sley is nice. Did u say u must get a Irish man to fix it that over there. I'm from Ireland as well.
Amish man .....
Amish man as Farmer John says. Glad you are watching from Ireland!
Yes I'm from Ireland. Excellent video by ye. Did u use your Drone sence. Would like to c more as well of it. If u can drive it lower but don't scare the Horses.
personally I burn what ever gets in front of the saw. But I am particular about having dry wood, but we also have a indoor furnace.
Hi Jim.
It's been real frigid here in the Mohawk Valley and I know that means the North Country.
Unrelated to the sleigh.....when you're skidding, using the wagons, etc. do you have some kind of braking mechanism on the cart to help the horses on the down hill?
No, they can hold it back with their harness
Yes Jim I do the samething i burn the slabs from my sawmill and pine hemlock poplar wood all the junk in my stove to sell the good hard wood
Enjoy the sounds of the horses enjoying their work. do you have sleigh bells when you take customers for sleigh rides? enjoy the pace of your videos.
Yes we do
post a video with sleigh and bells@@WorkingHorsesWithJim p
Jim how long dose the stove last on a filling ?
great question. hope Jim answers this one
I fill it twice/day whether it is empty or not
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim thanks jim.
@@dannyboy7086 hi did you get jim's answer ?
Do y’all have bells when ya ride groups to the pond? Or too much of a distraction 🤔 hope we have snow this year😎
Yes we do. Sometimes we put them on, sometimes we don’t
Any chance you could possibly do a video of your dry kiln and how you plumbed it into the furnace etc... been thinking of doing that for this year
Will keep that in mind for a future vid, others have asked as well
Love your videos. Do you have any videos that show how you harness up your team horses?
The plan is to make a video of just harnessing a horse because there have been a few requests. There is a playlist does talk about harnesses: th-cam.com/play/PLeieiAmAdmBds49RCcm9TQZsc1vdHKeg3.html
i want see more of cabin.
Keep watching!
Nice video Jim! Makes me miss Buddy and Jack, my Percherons, We have an indoor wood furnace in the basement, but I REALLY want an outside boiler. Grew up with hotwater heat, much steadier than hot air and better for the lungs I think. Keep warm friend, only 3 more months of winter...if we're lucky!
cool.....sp thats what the fire box is for......ok but is there a pope were heat gos to heat house...never seen one
Would you do a video about how the stove is connected and heats your house and kiln?
We will try to bring that up in a future video, thanks for the idea
How often do you shovel out the ashes?
Every 2-3 weeks, depends on the species of wood I am burning
Gidday from Down Under again.. Youve sort of answered one of my Qs..partly..lol..you dont need to increase feed for energy/warmth in the winter?? Do you stable the horses and or rug them when not in work?? Ive seen you rug them wheen travelling...as you can tell Im not a snow person...lol.. great video once again..cheers
I don't generally increase their feed in the winter. I do stable the horses and only blanket them for transport or if they have gotten hot and sweaty from working
Can you chop hole and pump it out with a battery operated sump pump?
We tried that, there isn't a great water source to refill the water that was pumped out so it doesn't work the greatest
Have you ever tried to burn Box elder? My experience with it was dismal. I put a couple pieces in and it nearly put the fire out. I asked an older friend what it was good for and he said "throwing over the bank!". If it is structurally sound I suppose you could build a fireproof house.
No, I have never tied box elder. Good idea-fireproof house :)
Team work makes the dream work. but but wher r the jingle bells 🔔???
OK; Where are your sleigh bells 🔔?
We forgot them! Will have to put them on next time!
I have some very old sleigh bell's that belonged to my husband's great aunt. I had an Amish man reset them on new leather, years ago. The bell's are very pretty and make pretty sounds. They are heavy brass.
I see you do up two links when you do the tugs? Is that just a safety thing if on link breaks or so it doesnt jingle around?
Its different with every implement, but I have a certain link it has to be hitched to. And yes, the extra links are hitched in there so they are out of the way.
Are you running hot water pipes into the house with a circulation pump ? I am heating our house with two inside stoves and they take a lot of wood, too, smaller pieces, though. I would be worried about the circulation pump in an ice storm or do you use a diesel generator for that case? I envy you for the sleigh rides, can't do that here in Missouri, hardly ever enough snow lasting long enough.
I had to cut down on oats, too, after I had a 50 yard runaway back into the barn on the forecart a week ago, which caused me to have some bruises when I got unloaded inside the barn. Well, stuff happens.
Yes, that's what I do. We do have a wood stove inside that we can use if we lose electricity, or if it is very cold since we have an old farmhouse that isn't completely airtight. So sorry to hear about the runaway, glad you are ok. Stuff does happen! Less feed does help them calm down a bit.
Hi Brenda, how are you doing? Long time no see. Hope everything is well.
Hi, I'm good and all is well. Hope you are well also! Thanks for watching!
Is there one of your team that is less sensible to the cold. Is it the reason the percheron was on duty this day.
No they all do about the same in the cold
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim I see, thank you. I like it when you say, «he's like this» «she's like this» What's make them who they are, interest me.
What is the optimal diameter log for your mill?
I like 20 inch logs
Had a log truck froze to the ground- it sat for a few days with a load of logs, went to take it, wouldn't budge! had to hook the tractor to it to get it loose, HA,HA! Ice Skating!!
those wood stoves are great till you get to old to fetch the wood,, then they become dinosaurs.. .
I'm finding that everything is getting hard to fetch! Lol
i remenber when i was little gradpa pulled up with a horse and buggy.
thanks guys i felt almost like i was right there with yall its sure a pretty place yall have are yall in upstate new york or pensylvania ??
Thanks, Northern New York
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How does the heat off of the wood burning in the . stove get to your house? Is there a water coil inside the stove and underground piping to the house?
That's right
Hey Jim how do you use the heat from the stove for heating water and house - - it appears quite a distance from the house, or s the stove for he barn heat ???
There are insulated pipes that run underground from the stove to the house and barn.