Environmentally Sensitive Horse Logging at Berea College
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2021
- Joe visits Berea College in Campbellsville, Kentucky to learn about their horse logging program. He explains how a usual logging contract works, business of horse logging, forest management and care for your logging horses.
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Berea college has a Forest Management Program to enhance the value of their woods and protect the watershed that includes lakes from which their water comes. They have hired horse loggers Ben Burgess and Sam Tackett to manage their woods full time using environmentally sensitive logging or what is commonly known as "worst first" logging. Sam and Ben have both learned from the Healing Harvest Foundation about this philosophy.
Ben talks about the business end of horse logging and how Berea works to manage the forest while still selling wood from it. He also talks about how he became interested in logging.
We watch as the two men expertly fell a large tree and use their draft horse team to skid it out of the woods. Sam demonstrates a "jack grab" which he learned from Jake Strode, to hook up a log to the logging cart. and then hauls it to a landing.
Next we hear from Clint Patterson, Berea College Forester about considering the future or "big picture" when managing a watershed property. Bulldozing and clear cutting will foul the water and increase treatment costs, eventually destroying the lakes. He explains how environmentally sensitive logging will keep the water clean and make the lakes viable indefinitely.
Berea has harvested some of its trees for use in historical ship restoration on the east coast.
Ben talks about proper use of the horses and considering the loads they can sustain all day.
Lastly Joe talks with Jason Rutledge of Healing Harvest Foundation about the labor involved by men and horses and the benefit to the world and the environment this labor has.
RESOURCES
Berea College Forestry: www.berea.edu/forestry/
Healing Harvest Foundation: www.healingharvestforestfounda...
Logging Grabs: www.horseloggersupply.com
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These horse logging videos are fascinating. Seems the best compromise between efficiency and environmental concern. No massive loaders or trucks to compact the soil and tear it up, but still able to do a lot of work.
Im so happy thease men could of made life easier bying machinery and they dident staying with horses payed off now they have a great place to log for life awsome collage called them for the horses
My great uncle lived in Missouri. He owned about 20 wooded acres on his farm that he heated his house out of for nearly 50 years. He had a 2 enormous mules that he used to bring the logs out and load them on a wagon. Sometimes, family or neighbors would get together and do it. He did not replant the trees. They just grew back naturally. That's the way country life was back then.
Excellent team, excellent tractor and handler.
Aw this is so beautiful! We have a ride and drive draft horse Fat Madge and she is just the most wonderful girl ever! We often have her in our videos on our channel 🐴
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Would help if you used an arch to pull those logs out instead of dragging them flat. Keeps the logs from getting caught as easy and makes it easier to pull them out.
The challenge is going to be how to utilizing a lower value log thereby leaving the healthier trees on the stump.
We have a state quabin resivoir what would tataly hire horses they let people log only 6 wheel macheanery
Joe, I really love your channel, but please, please, please get yourself a stabilized camera holder. The vibration is jarring.
Is that a butternut or walnut he felled there?
What breed of horses are those?
I believe they are American Suffolks.