Re: The Tractor Will Never Replace the Horse (long

Posted by Larry on November 04, 2003 at 08:54:29 from (152.163.253.66):

In Reply to: The Tractor Will Never Replace the Horse (long pos posted by DRL on November 03, 2003 at 11:58:58:

Amen! I'm in excavating, and can't imagine doing the work we do with horses.....BUT there is something to be said about Kim's post.
The comradare between a good trained animal and man is almost a lost art. Anyone who has worked with a good bird dog, rode a good working horse, etc,etc will attest to this. Back in the early fourty's the neighbor farm used Oliver 70's, but granpa planted and cut hay with the horses. I'd watch for him and run tell my mother and she would make a quart of lemonade that I would run out to the fence. There I'd wait for MY ride up and back(worked every time, except once he re lit his cigar and burned his fingers when the matchbook flared up.)
As I recall, he never said mutch to those horses. At the end of the row, they would slow to almost a stop so he could pull the planter up, then turn the right way and center perfectly on the marker line. About the only time he said anything was when he had to stop mid-row and refill the seed hoppers. Even though I've got some pretty good hay burners in the pasture now, those memorys still make my day!
Thanx for giving the good side of my feeble brain a high today! Best regards, Larry

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