Work Animals of Appalachia, A Time Gone By.
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- A story of the Work Animals used in Farming, Logging ang Mining back in the day before modern machinery in these mountains and beyond. Thanks for watching. NOTE: Picture are just to tell the story and not actual pictures of the events. SUBSCRIBE:: LIKE AND SHARE:: HELP GROW YOUR CHANNEL THIS CHANNEL COVERS 9 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS !!! ( CHECK IT OUT) 1. Metal Detecting 2. Wildlife Videos 3. History & Mountain Culture 4.The Unexplained 5. Home projects 6. Hunting & Fishing 7. Nature Videos 8.Mining History 9. Video Shorts
I'm from (Almost Heaven) West Virginia, born & raised here in these beautiful mountains. The older I get the more I realize just how much God has truly blessed me by placing me here in these beautiful mountains. I thank God everyday for these beautiful mountains & all the beautiful people I live around. I Love and appreciate your videos, you're doing a wonderful job at helping preserve appalachian history & the struggles & hardships of generations gone by. I'm convinced now more than ever that hard as old timers had it back then it was a better lifestyle than living in the fast paced world we do today. Men & their families worked hard and Loved one another, communities & neighbors came together to help each other. If people still worked hard as our ancestors did back then people wouldn't have time to be flipping out & killing each other, they would be forced to help & Love their neighbors in order to survive. Idle hands is the devils playground. I firmly believe that. May God bless you & thank you for sharing & preserving bits of appalachian history with us. 🙏❤️
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories with us. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Thanks for these videos. It shows how hard our fore father's worked to make this country what it is today. It's sad to see that people don't appreciate that. God bless
@@lifesajourney9575 My Nieces Husband a Hails From Your Beautiful As Maine.Swapped Some Dang Fine Tale's of Growing Up in Each State.
I am the caretaker of the family “Century” farm in West Tennessee. I have saved all of the mule drawn equipment from my grandfather. It is tucked away under the lean-to of the board and batten cypress barn now. When my grandfather started the farm he had two mules, Blue and Belle.I have completed restorative work to the barn and in hopes it will stand another 100 years! I just love your videos.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
God Bless you. May come the day when u will be using it again. 👍
There are those special ones in the family who are the caretakers of the family's heritage. Hope you are doing well now. Cousins of mine keep up the "family farm," in Northeast Tennessee!
May God bless you Donnie for showing all of us what it was like centuries ago. Bless those animals for helping everyone take care of themselves & their families!! I feel sad watching all of these things and would love for all generations to be able to view & understand what hard work & determination is all about!! Donnie, my friend, please keep recuperating & healing & we’re all just watching your playlists of times gone by!! Blessings always… in Jesus’name! ❤️😊✝️
Being a truck driver, I travel through a lot of the Amish communities around the country. Watching those Amish farmers with their draft horse teams working their fields is really impressive. When you look at how they still do it today, and the superior quality of their crops, then you look at the modern, GPS-guided, computerized equipment and the crops on the modern farms, you have to wonder if all the technology and "progress" in modern agriculture is really better, at all!
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Same in Wisconsin, their food just plain tastes better...corn, beans, bread and pastries, raw milk and butter. Corporate farms are bigger, not better.
I live in Pennsylvania so in the heart of Amish country. We also have some Old Order Mennonites who use the same skills. I love seeing them.
Funny as a kid one of my favorite tv shows was The Waltons. I loved the setting, the family and often wished I could have sat at the table or on the porch listening to Grandma's stories and the skills they passed down.
Im spoiled with our modern conveniences but somehow feel we are missing out.
Yes, and watch out for all the EMF rays given off by all these Bluetooth and 5g cellphones, and micro waves invented to cook meat but now used for communication. The FCC is supposed to be protecting us from harmful electronics, but I think they’d sell us down the tubes for under a nickel- and have been all along. The preservatives in foods are disgusting, and even smell bad nowadays- smells like cheap varnish in some of these products. It’s so bad that I face away whenever I open these ziplock food bags. I used to love the smell of fresh bread, but nowadays it smells like water soluble varnish. So, make sure that you have received the Lord Jesus as Lord and Savior, because all the signs of his coming are in place. And, “If you confess with your mouth ‘Jesus is Lord’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.”- Romans 10:9.
@@davidmiller2238 Actually you have it backwards..In 1945, the heating effect of a high-power microwave beam was accidentally discovered by Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine. Employed by Raytheon at the time, he noticed that microwaves from an active radar set he was working on started to melt a chocolate bar he had in his pocket.
Mr. Laws, please don't let old ways fade away!! Keep the stories and memories alive! God Bless You!!
Thank you friend. God bless you.
Amen That raven,Amen.
Mr. Laws, thank you for the program. I recall in '76 at the Wasco county fair they had a horse draw pull. The winner was a mid weight team and I'll never forget the driver, a big man 300# plus brought his team to the line. All was pin drop quiet and you could ear him say in a calm voice, Jim,Rob then he moved his line forward. The horses looked at each other looked ahead and leaned into the harness moving their legs like a locomotive, pulling until their legs dug in in unision. It was the most beautiful thing I ever saw.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories. God bless.
Sr.Donnie you made me go back to my childhood and remember when my father used two oxen to work our land. there he grew corn and barley. At the time of harvesting the corn grains and growing the barley, our neighbors who were many in our community joined us. They did not always help and also in payment for helping us they were allowed to collect as much as they could to supply their own families. in those times there was a lot of unity between neighbors . In my house there were always children from the community playing with all my brothers and sometimes we (my brothers and I) moved to theirs. In those times there was respect , humility and above all the words of the people were like signing a commitment to pay . watching and listening to this unforgettable video until my eyes got wet. I was only 7 years old and today I am 62 . I live in Leesburg, Virginia. How I would like to return to those times where, despite the lack of comfort, people lived better.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 wow she said that whole comment beautifully and with sincere passion.
Speaking of people's word being good...my uncle ran a small grocery store, only rarely collected cash today for groceries today. Didn't turn anyone away, even folks who might never be able to pay. You got credit if you brought in fruit or vegetables, poultry or eggs, he'd even take fresh fish (I used to get soft drinks like that). He didn't die rich no one forgot him.
@@haroldwilkes6608 Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
My family is from Aldie, VA. My dad grew up on a farm that has been in the family for 160 years. My dad used regale us with stories of the draft animals, the arrival of the threshing machine for the wheat, with it's long drive belt. They didn't get electricity till 1940.
The generations that have left us had so much knowledge and work ethic that are sadly missing in this country. Mamaw always said life got too easy back about the 50’s and the TV ruined (rurned) a lot of people.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
A good word: rurned or rurnt.
Yes tv is a double edged knife.
It's amazing how times have changed... This video shows hard work. How family's struggled. Back then family's and neibores worked together. They appreciate everything....Love and gratitude..... I think we have forgotten this.....Thank You Sir.
So true! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Another awesome video !! Thank you.
We're now the most coddled and pampered people in history but the character of the people has diminished sharply.
@@haroldwilkes6608 Harold... EXACTLY and one of the biggest reasons this country
has fallen like
ROME did!!!!!!
And they became true families back then. Worked together and stayed together.
I can't imagine any other person narrating this video. Very calming and relaxing. Times have definitely gone by. Bless those ole times animals. ❤️
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
He does have a pleasing voice
Donnie my friend you did it again. The beauty of of mule named Ed, oh yes my dad had one. He was red in color and dad raised him from a young mule. He was the strength behind our farm. Tobacco crop, corn fields,and gardens. Pulling timber out of hollows to cut up for wood to heat. Since dad raised the mule, in a calm voice and made sure he was well fed. Growing up we watched the work between my dad and Ed the mule. Being a young teenager I wanted to work with the mule and dad finally allowed me to. This mule and dad had so close of a relationship he listened for dad's voice. I hold on and kept the lines tight and dad would set at the end of the field plowing Tobacco. If Ed was starting to give me a hard time,stepping out of the row. Dad would call on the mule "straighten-up Ed" and he would go right back into order. We go to cut trees for lumber and wood. Dad and I would carry out equipment into the Hollow, pick the tree's and cut them. After all was trimmed up and ready to be pulled out of the Hollow. I go get old Ed, put all the gears and tack on him and send him over the hill. Dad would call on him and he would go straight to dad. Dad would use chains with hooks to tie the logs and send Ed back up the hillside to me. I'd unchain the logs, reset the gear (rigging and tack) and send Ed back over the hill. We would do that till lunch. Then I go over the hill into the Hollow and dad would work on top. Same set up, I'd hook the chains and hooks round the logs and send Ed to the top. Donnie yes it was work. But, I never saw working this mule with my dad as work. Believe it or not,it was just a route work and helping my dad and the family was always a great thing to do. Knowone could ride this mule except the children, all dad had to do was talk to the ole mule and tell him let that baby ride now. My dad passed at 60 yrs old 28 years ago. But Donnie the day he had a brain bleed. We had been in the tobacco field all day. I was grown,married with 2 young sons. But, every day I had a day off or even after work. I would be at dad's working on something. And hat ole mule Ed, well he was a great part of our life's. Oh I bought horses and we rode them on trails we cut thur the woods. Even my children were riding. But, the Beauty of a man and a mule working together and so well close. That mule knew what was expected of him and did it. And a good man who made sure that mule was well taken care of, just speaking to that mule. It was a beautiful thing to watch. So many memories of that mule named Ed, and I caring man would knew the best way to work a mule. It was a beautiful thing to see. Today my dad had been gone like I said 28 years, and the ole mule Ed lived another few years just retired in the paster, receiving ear scratches and some fed. I watched that mule after dad died. He would stand in the paster and watch for dad to come to the fence or barn. That's a bond that people don't see, a mule and his farmer and logger. Thanks Donnie again beautifully done and bring back beautiful memories of my yesterday's. God bless you and your family
Awesome story my friend. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing this with us my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 thank you for bringing the beautiful history of our people ❤
@@2WOLFS Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Beautiful story,thank you.
My mother used to tell stories about their mule, Old Dan. She did love that old critter! Thanks for another awesome tale, Donnie. Sometimes I wonder if we wouldn't be better off, going back to the older times! God bless you, my friend!💖
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My grandfather had a Ford tractor in the barn and still plowed with his mule.
People these days ain’t got a clue what work is..ain’t got a clue what it’s like to go without..Awsome Video Mr Donnie!!!!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
My Grandfather worked his farm with horses. I cannot imagine how long it took to hook up 30 horses! Those horses had to have a good disposition to all work together without a problem. This video brought back good memories of riding the draft horses bareback and how large they were. Kids now don't care where their food comes from. All they know is the grocery store. Sad. Thanks for another fantastic video!
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks for another great video,, my grandpa Duvall was a moonshiner back in the 20's and 30',40's,, he used a mule,, buckboard to haul his shine out of holler's !!!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I guess I was the only grandson that papaw taught to plow with a mule of course my dad said he worked the fields from sun up to sundown before WW2 I recall the particular old mule I learned with Pap called Duck a fine animal and can even remember my mamaw churning butter seems like a simpler time was a better time thanks for another great video Mr. Laws!
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Better time's for sure. I was raised that way also. Modern times are not better.
I love hearing this and seeing old photos. Thank you so much
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Here in the northern Piedmont of North Carolina, most farmers used mules. Grandpa had a team, Kate and Nell. Daddy said he got to where he could plow tobacco with Nell without the plow lines.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Wow that is awesome
Enjoyed the memories of the animals, especially the horses. Blessings.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hi, love your videos. This one was no exception. Raised on a small farm near coal camp
# 13 , Pageton WV.
We had 2 horses but they were for riding pleasure. With us 5 boys at home it seemed like my brothers and I were the farm animals. We hoed a lot of corn and potatoes.
We had a good life but we had to work hard. Dad was a miner and so was Grandpa.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I've always had a soft spot for Pit Ponies and mules. Every man, woman, child and beast had to work together just to survive. They all pulled together.♥️
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Oh Lord Mr. Donnie, once again you have struck some of the best memories of my childhood with my Grandpa !! I've helped him plow, mow hay, rake hay, and log out trees with an ole mule named Kate, she was a big red mule, strong too, she would pull anything Grandpa hooked her up to !! She worked hard as Grandpa asked her but, when she wanted a "breather" as Grandpa would call it, she would just flat out stop a few minutes and Grandpa would say "well, I reckon we can get us some cold water to drink from the spring while Miss Kate catches her breath" ! Lord I sure do miss my Grandpa, we made a lot of memories together , and I reckon I miss ole Kate too !!! LOL thank you Sir for yet another sweet trip down memory lane !!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
We had 2 mules and 2 big Percheron mares growing up. Used the mules for mowing on the steep places and the big mares for heavier work like plowing and pulling logs. I miss that life. It’s mostly gone now.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thxs for sharing Donnie. Brings back memories with pa paw and even my Dad useing a team of Mule’s farming & logging. I was 11 years old useing a team.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I love history so thank you for the wonderful insight. God bless you !
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Great video, Mr. Laws. All my relatives from that time had stories to tell about coming home late at night and when they got close enough to home that it was a road the horse was familiar with, they could tie up the reins loosely and go to sleep, knowing that the horses would get them home safely. Makes me chuckle every time I hear about these fancy new high-tech cars that can drive themselves (somewhat). All the genius scientists and engineers can't yet match a good horse.
Other thing your video brought to mind was my grandpa's old mule, "Mary". She was a huge animal, but gentle as a kitten. She lived to an old age, but she loved to work so much that my grandpa would still do part of the Spring plowing with her even when she was an old gal.
When she died, the county held a funeral ceremony for her. She was one of the last working mules in Lumpkin County. She is missed just like any other member of the family.
This also reminds me of Wendell Berry, a good ol' Kentucky feller that still works his land with horses. Draft animals cost less than tractors and do better on slopes. I kick myself for not nudging my Dad to teach me how to work with horses. He was the last to plow and such with them. He loved them, too. It wouldn't have taken much to get him to stick with them, but I didn't know any better back then.
Here in the Southern hills of Kentucky my Daddy wld log out cedar logs and My Grandfather used his mules to plow our gardens and tobacco patches.... Those were the days.... I sure miss them days.....
Thanks for sharing my friend.
A man I grew up around collie Payne of big pine north Carolina has a picture of him and his oxen in the Smithsonian! What a honor to know this hard working old man!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 no problem
I love that I live in an area with a lot of Amish. They still farm using the horses and mules. I see kids as young as maybe 12, 13, 16 driving a pony cart or driving the mules. I see the young working alongside the grandparents and just all working together. Oh, and Amish numbers are increasing so there at least will be someone to pass on these skills.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you Mr. Laws.
My Great Papaw's plow horse was named Alice, according to those who knew her.
It has been said that she'd bucked all but a few who tried to ride her---she never bucked my daddy.
She went blind at age 25; before I was born. I remember her tack hanging in the smoke house.
"Frank" never allowed a tractor on his place, and passed in 1976 at the age of 99 years and 6 months.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hi Donnie, great video!.
Hey Donnie it’s is a shame too see the old farm tack buildings and tack waste like that. It saddens me to see the old equipment set there and rust away. Donnie could someone or some organizations repair the old barns and save them and the equipment? In that area. I hope someone would.
Donnie do you remember how old you was when you first learned how to plow by yourself? Lol. My dad was about 8 when he was turned loose on one. I’m from eastern Ky not far from where you was raised. I also was raised on a small farm. Love this video!. Thanks!.
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I was 10 years old when I started plowing with a team of horses and a hillside plow. I was proud because I was the only kid in school that could plow. Later on I used a mowing machine and hay rake like those in the video. All our land was on a hillside so you had to be real careful.
Oh wow I just got to the goat part. My Pap told me about them goat cars. Oh the memories. He did logging too. He used to gaff trees and I learned to gaff telephone poles. He was so arm proud of me. I remember he told me when he was a young child they had dirt floors. He said them floors were so hard you could sweep them just like a tile floor.
Ty Donnie for the memories
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you Mr. Donnie! For a tribute to the old days and ways.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
An eye opener, Thanks Donnie. Takes me back to my childhood in the 60s on the countryside in Cinci when I was a kid. Horses and mules were still used. I lived on a Road where old WW1 vets still farmed. I learned a lot from them Gents and their wives. Hardship was engrained in there going through life BUT lots of happiness was had in there old days. I seen it. Tom
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories. God bless you.
In the late 50"s my Papaw would plow the ranch (well it was 2 ac but at abt 4-5 I thought it was a ranch) with a borrowed mule and plow. He was probably late 60's early 70's. Grew food for the family for the year. Hard but better days. Thanks Donnie.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks brother Donnie 👍 GOD gave us these beautiful animals to care for and work with. Some were treated good and some not so much. Choose Jesus Christ folks.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My grandfather plowed with a mule named Belle. I would follow him and try to step in his steps. Jackson County, Georgia. Good memories from your video.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 YW
Thank you Mr. Donnie, I appreciate you sharing this video of the work animals of days gone by. Brought back a lot of memories of my childhood, watching some of the ole timers using some of these same animals on their farms and for transportation
My Grandaddy was born in 1921 and use to tell me that he would plow a mule all day for 50 cents a week, that’s just hard to comprehend. I love hearing about our history in this country. GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIEND!!!! 👍🏻🙌🏻☀️☀️
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Love hearing your stories, you have a soft clam voice …
Oh thank you!
Hi Donnie thanks again for another great video.of time gone by.all ways a blessing to hear about the farmer's and the miner. All so love them old pictures. Hope you and the family are well Donnie. Keep it real.
Thanks 👍 Thanks for sharing my friend.
Such neat pictures and history Donnie....My Grandpa and my Pops plowed with horses and oxen as well.....I used to love and sit and listen to them when they were alive...so much history ...Thank you brother....
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hello from Oklahoma, I just found your channel, I just love it. You make me homesick for the mountains and I've never lived there.
Welcome friend. Thank you.
Thank you for posting this lovely, charming story of American working heroes of the past, often forgot about. We will not forget. Poor animals having to haul that giant stack of logs! Most logs are much smaller these days; almost all of the big trees are gone, especially since the chestnuts were blighted out. Oak is so scarce that the wooden attic of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, which burned a few years ago, is not replaceable. I think they have to use aluminum instead.There is a strong, old retired mule near our home named Ernie. When he heehaws, you can hear him over the next ridge.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I thank you so much for sharing. It's great to keep the memories alive
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
It is interesting and it is sad that it's going away. We can't let it go away. We have to stand strong and keep our stories going I wish we could go back to the days of bartering and trading. I don't deal with cash unless I have to. Bless you mr. Donnie
I'm trying to share our Appalachian culture through stories of our people and places. There is so much that needs to be passed on. Thanks for sharing my friend. God Bless you.
Another good one 👍. I just missed the mules, family had a tractor by my time. We have some collars and reins. A old cabin (1850s) is down the hill from me. I show everybody. Thanks brother.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Yesss I did enjoy your programme and yesss I'll be here next time.God bless you too
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I remember my papaw was a dairy farmer, he always had a beautiful vegetable garden every year & it was always plentiful, enough for the family and friends. Papaw used his mule to plow the garden, my papaws name was Joe Wheeler Clingan & his mules name was Josie! We all loved Josie, she was part of our family. When Josie wasn't working she played with me and our old redbone hound. Ahhh,the good old days, I remember them still & will never forget!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you for sharing. I live in north western pa. My dad was born in 27, they were still farming with horses and mules. I love horses I ride a quarter horse. My first was an Appaloosa. In the summer I guide rides at Cook Forest Area Scenic Trailride and Dude Ranch. I take many people who have never ridden before in the woods for 1 to 5 hours. It's wonderful to see nat from the back of a horse and share that experience.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you very much for sharing so very important we never forget where we come from hard work and honest living
So true! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I enjoyed these very much. My family is from a different part of the Appalachians but this was definitely our heritage, too. Thank you very much for sharing this with us.
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.
Thoroughly enjoyed it as usual. Reminds me of a story my Daddy told me a while back. His father was a full time farmer/part time truck driver and one evening my Grandad had to haul a load and was gonna be late getting home that evening so he told my Daddy to take the mule and start digging the furrows so they could plant the next day. Well while my Daddy was behind the mule instead of guiding him in a straight line Daddy got to daydreaming and not paying much attention to the task at hand and just let the mule wander all over the place. Needless to say there wasn't a straight furrow to be seen and when my Grandaddy got in and went to check the field he was a mite furious with my Daddy...end result...Daddy had himself a very sore backside for quite a spell afterwards! Oh yes and before I forget those "monster" horses that you didn't know what they were called are Clydesdales I believe(thank you wikipedia). That all said sorry for being so long winded. As usual keep up the wonderful work...take care...stay safe...and GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!!
Awesome Scott. Thanks for sharing my friend.
And God bless you, Mr. Laws. That was a real nice trip though times gone by. I'm both fascinated by those work animals but it makes me a little sad too. I think about the people that were once on the land through happy times and sad, and now gone. But then I remember their times of trials and tribulations are over and they at Peace with the Lord now. Thank you for that video.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing. God bless you my friend.
Thanks handsome for another great learning experience. Very interesting to see.
Hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday. 😊
Thank you friend. Your very welcome. God bless you and HAPPY new year.
I love these videos. I want to go live in these places. Live out my live Injoying these beautiful lands.
Thanks my friend for sharing this. I understand completely. God bless you. Glad you enjoy them.
Wonderful video. Thank you. That was when people could provide for themselves. Unlike today's day and time. We may see some of this being used again. Many would not make it.
Well said! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Back in the 1920s my mother and all her 13 brothers and sisters had to work in the fields picking cotton from early to late and if they were caught playing they would get a whipping , but they always had plenty to eat on the 150 acre farm in Piedmont , Alabama ( Nice to read all the Stories ). Thank you for all the videos , Love them !!!! Gl. Az. 🐦
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TIMES GONE BY. YES SIR. THANKS DONNNIE.
Your very welcome my.
What a quiet, humble voice. What a precious thing it is to look back, in wonder and appreciation, at the land, the people, and the animals that lived before us. What awesome people and creatures they were!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
A little known secret about many of the old logging photos: Those skids were loaded with more logs than horses or oxen could pull but they made for great photo ops, after the photo session was over they took many of the logs back off the skids. Loved the video all the same, Donnie, you sure know how to spin a yarn.
Awesome! Thanks for the info. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
Logging roads were also used as still sites. People were skidding logs with mules and tending stills at the same time.
A funny story from my great grandfather is that he was offered 40 acres of land for his prized pair of mules. He turned it down. He said the mules could make money and he had more land than he could farm but extra land was just extra property taxes he didn't need. Alot of people didn't have a vision of what land would be worth in the future. He could just see as far as the life of those mules.
My Dad said the land would have always been there but the mules could have dropped over dead any day......
Thanks for your fascinating story and photos!
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
This was another one of my favorite videos we have an old bay Rake on our farm still has it’s seat so many folks have asked to purchase it but it comes with the history of our farm so it’s still here flower pot in springtime summertime wildflowers too pumpkin in the autumn just love it 🤠👩🌾other folks too. Blessings to you 🌸🪴🌿🪵🙏🏻💫
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
I am glad I had an ability to share it with you and some of your followers because I feel it’s important.🙏🏻🙂🤠
This is awesome to see.... I can remember as a very young boy , riding a "Ground Slide" with my Daddy, hauling in a load of "Literard" (Light wood as it officially is, I reckon)..ha. It was simpler time and was great. Thanks Donnie for taking me back for a few moments... God Bless You Sir!!
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.
That was real nice Donnie. I went back to the farm I grew up on, when I was grown. I went back into the woods and there was our old wagon. A tree growing right up through the middle of it. The tongue was still strong. Dad made it out of Osage wood. Thats hard stuff. I havent thought about that in years. Smiling, George.
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I love history and you bring it about really well.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I SO ENJOY LEARNING OF OUR ANCESTORS IN THE EARLY DAYS
Me to. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Handled a few teams in my day myself. Wish things were still that way.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I really enjoyed this video. I remember Daddy talking of two old mules and horses with ‘big ole hooves’ (Clydesdale, I guess) pulling logs out of the mountains. . 🥰🥰🥰
Thanks for sharing my friend.
My daddy and grandpa farm with mules.Donnie i enjoyed your video thank you for snaring.
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Another fantastic video !! Please keep them coming.. You are truly a blessing !! Thanks..
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
&Thanks My Appalachian Brother!!Awesome Ep My Man!
Your very welcome my friend. Thanks so much.
I remember the mules working as a team and bought and sold as teams. They lived and worked 20 plus years; were given first names. Verbal commands for left and right, gee and haw; start and stop etc.
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Breaks my heart to see all these things deteriorating. Way the world is becoming, people may be very sorry they've let this happen. I've always admired the Amish and the people of the Appalachian Peoples, and native Americans/Early Settlers. Our youngsters of today's time are in for a very rude awakening I'm afraid. So sad our Country has become what it has. Ty so much for ur videos. 💓
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I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel. Love every minute of relatable honesty. Subscribed immediately.
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That might be Times Gone by but we may be circling back again thank you for sharing
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Great video. The good ole days
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Thanks again , DLfor a great history lesson
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Jerry Clower once said “you plow a horse until he falls over dead,you plow a mule,he’ll stop before you kill him” lol. True! 😀
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Sir that big black was a Morgan horse, strong tough gentle. Same style of horse the old knights road in days gone by, the 2 blonde mane are Perchon horses also used as draft horses. Thank you Sir these were right & true times.....ATB
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Just recently discovered your Channel I am hooked I have been binge-watching for about a week now keep the great videos coming buddy
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Nice video, Mr. Donnie!
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Outstanding video. Thank you!
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Enjoyed this video on working animals! They really did a lot of hard work. You ought to do a story about how back about 80 - 100 years ago how families worked hard on the farm. I had a wise old hard working neighbor lady that told us old timey stories of how her family would have several kids (around 9 kids) working on the tobacco farm. They would work from the age of 3 or so on up. Working around the house, tending to animals, gathering eggs, water the animals, etc. Then they would work in the tobacco fields tending to the tobacco, gathering it, stringing it up, drying it out and getting it ready for the market. She said that them kids would work from sun up to sun down, and that when it came time for lunch that was the highlight of the day. They got to rest and eat a bagged / picnic lunch and go on back to work. This was when they were not going to school, in which they had to walk several miles to. They lived in old wooden houses, very poorly insulated, getting hand-me-downs and having to walk to church in bare feet, and put their church shoes on when they got to church. Amazing. Their houses had high ceilings and fans, no AC. They had no running water, just a well in the yard, and later got a pump in the kitchen. Living high. No electricity, just using lamps. Covering up with quilts and stoking the fires. They worked all together to help the family survive. They would re-use things and fabricate things that they needed along the way. They were a hard working family and enjoyed.
Sad to say that time is long gone. And today....if you have a house with slow internet...it's considered child cruelty! LOL! Oh boy, the times have changed, and not for the best.
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@@donnielaws7020 Donnie, anytime. I had moved down to the area in which I'm living now, Sanford NC. I moved from the Pocono mts. in PA. My neighbor was a wonderful woman in her late 80's, this was back in the 90's. She had grown up in the Sanford, NC area and her family was into Tobacco farming, since the sandy soil and the market for tobacco at the time was very good. She share many stories with me about her childhood and the way they grew up. A much different world today. Children were essential to the family's farm and went through a lot working on the farm. I believe that in those times, they actually enjoyed their childhood, working hard, making friends, good ethics and GOD. Unfortunately today, it's about the opposite with children. Isolated, not willing to share / help out and somewhat the feeling of entitlement. I don't know if they could survive if they had to today. If there were a black-out, all computers / electronic devices were to go dead, a lot would be lost. The neighbor woman, a great person, lived to be in her 90's and I feel she had a rich life (even-though there were times that she and her family had to do without). Today I feel children have everything, but nothing. Always enjoy hearing your stories / videos of a greater time gone by.
Donnie;
Just a thought. I heard that there used to be a coal mine in our area (Sanford / Chatham county) Cummnock area. There was a mining tragedy maybe around 100 or so years ago and several were lost. Might be a good story to look into.
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We have all the things on our farm that you have in your video ! It’s amazing to see with your eyes 👍
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Interesting video Donnie I can listen to you narrate them anytime. My dad had a cousin who use to have an old timey cane grinding to make cane syrup at his place and he used a horse to operate the grinder like the one in the photo. It was a community event and I enjoyed the hands on experience of the old time process making it from start to finish.
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Been binge watching these and the nostalgia is hitting hard. The older I get the more I miss it. I grew up in Central W Virginia but moved to CT at 20. Been back a few times and it's a different place now. I'd love to retire back to the mountains but have no desire to live in a drug den. The poverty there now is just different and I want no part of it unfortunately. Been looking for other similar areas but don't want to go to far south. I hate the heat.
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🏔 Absolutely Awesome Info Thank you Donnie
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Good to see work this , I grew up on the tail end of it and still know people that use work horses . I know of a man has a saw mill way up pennsylvany way that use draft horses to log his name is Morgan lives in Black log Valley . Also there was a man his name George Washington Sears [ Nessmuk] years back told about using elk as pull animals by settlers in a place named Pine Creek in northern Pa. Pa mines was so unsafe they didnt use dogs , they used orphans . The pull strap wore off the hair on their head. The kids was leased from Philidelphia Orphans Home .Worked to age 21 later 28 yrs ,most died. The didnt waste a good dog when nobody missed orphans.. A rough cruel place.
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When my grandpa’s sons took over the farm and started using tractors he still kept horses to cultivate the tobacco fields. He said the tractor compacted the soil to much.
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My great uncle was killed when a team of mules pulled a sled full of logs over him back in 1910. I still use horses from time to time. What is a 20 minute round trip to the next town over is close to 2 hours by buckboard. I have a short video on my page driving my buckboard down the road. Thanks for these videos.
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I remember my Uncle coming down from the upper pasture standing on a sled lead by two white mules. As a child I thought those mules were so magnificent.
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Great video. Thank you, Donnie. ❤️
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My mother would always tell me she loved to hear her father getting the horses ready for the field with tears in her eyes
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Love Your videos ! Keep ‘em coming Donnie !
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This is a good piece of history.
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Good video
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GoodLife video Donnie Times Gone by
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Growing up in Tennessee where you’re showing those pictures of those muels I can remember as a child my grandfather hooking up a team and using those machines to hook up to get tobacco and hay I remember him the way he would talk to the mule he’d whistle and he’d say giddyup
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thanks for this great video I have got lots of this old farm equipment like in video
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I think this might be my favorite video that you've made so far. Those animals were more important than anybody could ever imagine, even this video can't do those animals justice. They used donkeys to pull the coal carts here in my hometown of Jim Thorpe PA. Then they started using the gravity railroad, it was the first one in the entire country.
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You know when I was growing up in Appalachia all I could ever think about was getting out of here now you couldn't drag me out of here with a team of mules born here live here they'll bury me here!
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