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JRSutton

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not a tractor, but she'll do the work of one.

Our new belgian "Blondie" she's 6 years old - not sure her exact size, but she's a big girl.

She's coming from a friend of ours here in town - the horse originally came from an amish friend of mine in OH who just passed away last month from lung cancer.

It'll be really nice to have one of his horses here.

I call her a dinosaur because that's what these things are to me - just huge massive dinosaurs.

It's is all new to me - but my wife grew up with horses. She knows how to work with draft horses, and drive them etc.

She rode this thing around bareback the other day - without knowing if she's ever even been ridden - had to climb on from the tailgate of the truck.

WAY more guts than me.

We have another friend with a horse that's almost identical - if things go smoothly with this one, we're thinking about taking him to team them up together.
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Thanks for posting. That is a photo to be framed. My first paying job 53 years ago was driving a team of horses putting up hay. We had two teams. Granddad SOMETIMES would say the horses are smarter than the kid. TRUE. Post More pictures please.
 
Since the Amish had it that horse has likely done everything. Including find it's way home from the local bar with the owner passed out !

If it gets loose at your place I hope it doesn't head back for it's original home.
 
Not to be crude or bad mouth a good looking woman but the look on her face says horse you do what I want or get hit right between the eyes. Nice looking horse. It's easy to why the wife jumped on her back she looks like she has plenty of experience with horses.
Walt
 
yeah, she's all business when it comes to the animals.

She's really good with them, very caring and treats them very well, but they certainly do listen!

She's a good woman.

Kind of embarrassed to admit it, but she saved me the other day - from a friends crazy steer.

Steer was tied in a stock trailer, I was the brave one to go in to get him. He started doing the big bad bull head butting thing while I tried untying the poorly tied knot

I ignored him pushing me - should have smacked his nose or something, but was assuming the knot was going to pull out - it didn't.

Then he smashed me REAL hard in the ribs - and came around with the rope still tied, and I was suddenly pinned with one arm tight in the rope, while he tried goring me (polled Hereford thankfully - no horns!)

Wife didn't take half a second to think, she jumped in and put that thing right its place, and freed me. He stopped the nonsense.

It was impressive.

Left the trailer with my pride bruised worse than my ribs for getting into a helpless situation like that - She could have teased me about it all day, but she never said a word - like a say - a good woman!
 
Will do when I can.

We still don't actually have her home yet. That picture is at a friends house.

We've got an electric fence for our goats, I'm upgrading it since this horse could just step right over it!

I'm sure we'll have plenty of pictures once she gets here.
 
Love draft horses. Wish I had the money to keep one. Seven dogs takes a pretty good chunk between food and vet care.

Larry
 
sorry to hear that.

I've never been a horse person, but as I get involved with this thing, I can see how you'd get attached. They grow on you.
 
Great looking horse, and wife obviously has the upper hand.

Reminds me of my wife and daughter, both "horsey". Daughter was only 10 but had had a lot of riding lessons, and wife got her a horse that had only been ridden twice. Wife and riding instructor both said it would be fine. I wasn't so sure.

She got on it in the field while I was building a barn nearby. Heard a commotion- horse was rearing, she was hanging onto his mane with one hand and beating him about the head with the other. She got him under control and rode over to where I was working. Instead of being scared and hysterical, she just said, "Dad, could you get me a stick?"

I knew at that point that wife was right- it would be fine. And it was. She ended up winning a number of events with him.
 
My earliest memories of Grandpa are of him with his Belgian horses! He grew tired of having a stud around, so would take the same mare to the same stud, in the hopes he would get matching foals two years in a row! He usually did get a matched team this way! They were worth more if broke well-which his were-and they matched!
 
That's funny.

These things intimidate me.

Cows I don't care how big they are, but a big draft horse like this just makes me nervous. SO much pent up power ready to explode.

I know my daughter's ridden a few while with my wife - but I pretend to not know and put it out of my head.

I've been real nervous watching her with them - (she works with some other people in town doing wagon rides, etc.) But I'm starting to ease up as time goes on and I get familiar with them.

Absolutely have to respect these animals, that's for sure. But I guess the secret is in making that feeling mutual.
 
You are right about the mutual respect! You have to become friends with them. As long as a horse is fed well and treated well, you will seldom have any problems. Dad didn't get a tractor until I was about 17, so I spent quite a bit of time breathing the modified air behind a horse. But she was not only a work horse, she was also a pet!
 
Grandpas were definitely pets! They would come running when he opened the house door! They could care less about me, which annoyed me, but him-WOW!
 
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