BARON IS LOGGING?!! // How to Teach a Horse to Pull
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Today our 3 year old Suffolk Punch Stallion, Baron, is logging! This is his second time in the woods, and he is doing a great job! Today we are talking a little about how to teach a horse to pull so that they will do their best and not get discouraged!
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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Brenda you are so fluid and expert behind the viewfinder, but it is really nice when you ask questions of Jim and interesting when you interact with the horses too. You guys provide balance for each other. Thanks for all the hard work!😊
Brenda needs to be a reporter lol
Jj yhuo😮😮😮😮😮😅😅😅😅
Some of us are here for Brenda’s horse talk, horse kisses and pb cupcakes. ❤
Great to see how well Baron is doing, he has two good teachers, Jim and Bill, but also his good breeding, being a Suffolk Punch, shows.
I really enjoyed hearing Jim talk to the horses. It shows the primal relationship between humans and horses
Bill is being an amazing school master for Baron - so calm and patient. Real nice training Jim. Oh and Brenda your camera skills are amazing, so steady, even trudging through the mud and ice slush 💪😊
Hello:Brenda and Jim- great to see your farm life with working horses and how you both relate to them.
We immigrated to CANADA near Toronto in 1950. No idea who owned the farm before us. Owned by a nearby dairy, They only had a hired hand looking after the place, I was 7 years old. I figured the owners may have died at D-DAY as a patriot. Farm of chickens, geese, pigs dairy cows and a thoroughbred. A working team of a 32 year old roan mare. Teamed up with a gray skittish 4 year old we placed on the ditch side while on road traffic, The old mare knew the seasons and which implement to pull. We had 3 Belgian horses. No harnesses and they lived for 'horsing around, Dad used to roll his own, gave each one a pinch of tobacco for night. This is us after living on the Equator for 2 years. 1949-1950 was the worst Winter of the time.
I am 80 now living on an old orchard. Memories to share, Enjoying your videos and life lived, The Old Orchard is now a shopping mall. The pasture behind us is now an Elementary school.
God bless to see your video life is most enjoyable for me to watch. The manure was over 3 feet LUCKY THERE WAS A RAIL WITH A SKIP CAR TO DUMP THE MANURE ALL WINTER. The cows horns hit the rafters stranding on all that manure.. We had the best family garden to share with all our immigrant friends, loading up their cars all Summer.
Barron is doing well. John
proud of Baron for being a fast learner and for Bill helping to train Baron.
Jim is a lucky husband 😁❤️. It is good to see Baron doing so well with Bill. He is a handsome young horse👍👍😁
I'm sure takes more time but the music with your narration is nice. I've have become a big fan of Sullfock since you have brought them on the farm. Can't wait to see Lady's foal n the mix of the best breeds.
very good to be back in the woods,,my favorite,,city folk will never know the full joy,peace,and smells of the woods with some good logging and walking about..thanks for narrating mr.jim,,it was a very nice changeup.
I just can't say enough how proud I am to see our boy Baron working/training today and doing such a good job!!!❣ He really is "struttin' his stuff" today and displaying all the excellent work Jim has been doing with Baron's training in order to reach this milestone in his learning curve! It also speaks well of the Suffolk Punch breed and what I'm learning about them. Baron is an exceptional example of everything I've read about this breed of draft horses with their good temperament and willingness to learn/work. I'm just tickled to death seeing him become one of Jim's fine teams of drafts today!🥰 I realize there's still much more training for Baron with field work around the corner, but today I feel like he has shown us what a fine horse he truly is!!! Between Jim's coaching him as well as Ken, Bill,and Lady's help in his training, Baron is well on his way of becoming an equal team member of Jim and Brenda's draft horses! This is a great video today!!! Baron deserves lots of praise and loving today for being such a good boy.❤
P.S. So happy Ken's cellulitis in his leg is getting better!
They used to say of Suffolks " bred for the furrow." They tend to be larger horses in the UK, from what I've observed. I'm in California, and I've only seen one Suffolk. I'm sure some more people have them. They seem to be in Vermont, and New Hampshire, more. There is a magazine, "The Draft Horse Journal" out of Iowa, that features some breeders. Baron is so beautiful. It would be fun to see his pedigree. Maybe some of his ancestors are listed in All Breed Pedigree site.
28:24 Watching Baron pull. Wow. Such impressive effort from such a young horse.
Imagine what he will be like as a five year old with that much muscle power! It will be awesome!
Your videos are a comfort for us in this messed up world. I love the sounds of the equipment and horses, so pleasant and peaceful. You both have made yours our most regularly watched channel. We love all aspects of it, the beautiful horses, the farming, the logging, the teaching, the training, the daughters singing carols on sleigh rides, the grandkids helping with chores. It is so uplifting! What a blessing you are! Thanks and God bless you both, and hope Ken's leg continues to heal.
Thank you!
I think that Baron is doing a super good job. Very impressive behavior for a young stud. And Brenda...you are the queen of quips!!! I always get a snicker listening to your videos. Say good bye Baron. Yikes! 😅😅
I can’t imagine training a draft without a horse like Bill beside them in the woods. Impressive work you do - thanks for sharing!
I had never heard anything about Suffolk Punch breed, I suppose, because it was not prominent in USA like the other breeds are. But as with anything, it involves supply and demand. Where there is no need, demand lessens. I hope that the demand begins to increase as this breed seems ideal for farm and logging work. They have the conformation, willingness to learn, and temperament of a really good work breed. And they are beautiful. Thank you, Jim and Brenda, for educating us on this fantastic breed.
Baron is a natural, and it makes sense, his sire and dam are both amazing workers and their parents were too, it runs in the family. When a breed is not distorted to meet market trends and keeps to their original purpose, bred solely to be our work partners, it makes a difference.
O wow he's picking everything up fast.
Yes I'm in love with Baron. Good good boy! ALL of you are team like a stream or a dream ...The swivel power hauling logs amazes me. Another beautiful video. Thank you. I imagine you had a pleasantly warm time up at church with those cupcakes. Coffee too. The smell-o-vision is working just fine. All these miles just melt away.
as I remember correctly, Baron came rather suddenly on your path. At that time you had two great pair of horses and you just had bought the two youngsters as well.... It was meant to be...Right now you are in need of a new good team member and it turns out that Baron can be that team member in a short time. By following you here, Baron already has become my favorite ( besides his younger brother Earl; I'm anxious to see how he will be turn out). In my eyes the Suffolk can be a very interesting horse for a lot of us who want to work with horses; not that big, good character and willing to work ( and to learn)
Beautiful video, really different winter scene from all the pines. Spare and gorgeous. So impressed with your work with Baron! And jealous of that nice solid older teammate, worth his weight in gold.
Gosh, I can’t take my eyes off of Baron. He such a beautiful horse! Billy is so good with Baron.
We were trained at forestry college to identify the most promising looking hardwood trees in a stand and mark them for thinning. We would then come back and remove trees shading them on 3 sides of the marked trees to increase their growth. If you can increase the yearly growth by 8%, that's better than putting your money in a bank. Opening up the canopy too much can promote the germination and growth of trees you might not want, like beech or basswood. So if you come back in after thinning to harvest firewood, you need to take that into consideration. You can see in the video where some beech is coming back in. Some are ok since the turkeys, grouse, and deer need to eat too. Nectria canker (orange pustules on the bark) has taken out a lot of the older beech, the beechnut producing ones, from the forests in NYS. You could hire a consulting forester to do the marking or you could do it yourself following these principles.
The Suffolk as a breed suffered as many of the draft breeds did, after the 2 wars and the advent of machinery in farming and logging. Coupled with that, they don't have the size or presence of the more popular drafts (american belgian, percheron, clydes or shires).To my mind, they and the brandant are the superior draft breeds but in a way, it might be better that they don't get as "popular" as the others
Too many confuse long legs and height with size and also you have the taste for hoof feathers. A horse which weighs in excess of 2,000 pounds is a big horse. Thoroughbreds are generally 16 hands and mature at 1,000 pounds. Suffolks are between 16.1 and 17.2 hands though their are exceptions and Baron though not fully grown must be getting close to the height of a Thoroughbred but he weighs 1,648 pounds. Different breeds for different jobs but people like what they know. If someone does not know a breed how do they assess it? The general answer is that they don't, they just stick to what they know. Unlike a Shire a Suffolk is not going to weigh 2,400 + pounds and they are generally a hand shorter. People compare them with what they know and they frequently don't fit the perceived draft horse template. I am with you in that they are a superior breed. There is a very good breeding program in the UK, what exists in the States?
I love the journey you guys are bringing us on, with Baron and the other colts..and the rest of your farm. It's really sparked my enthusiasm for sustainable agriculture.. and the Suffolk breed too. Great work Jim and Brenda
Baron has some awesome teachers to follow and learn from. Ken, Bill and Jim are all very patient with him. 🐴
Amazing job today by Baron & Bill! They are working so well together. Baron's training seems to going along like clockwork. As always, love the content, and keep it coming!!
I love seeing Barron in training. He reminds me of me. Praying he is easier to train than I was.
Another fine video! You guys all make such fine teams in the woods, but your camera operator is underrated. Great work, Brenda!
Cheers!
Whipple
I know that you are both proud of Baron, but i am so proud of both of you. Putting all that hard work in training him. I do know that it takes a lots of nohow and patient, and i am proud of the results. When you have a good subject to start off with and you know how to do the right things , then you get what you poured into him. Gongradulation on BARON.
I'm still impressed on how well Baron is doing in all Depatments. and phases of his training. like Jim said for his age his training and demeaner is doing great! thanks for sharing. ECF
Great idea to assist the skid steer with the chain proactively. Those hung up trees in the crotch are no fun and can change a days work quickly, to dangerous recovery work. 2 back to back, owe boy, glad you worked through that alright, you will get some nice maple boards out of that young maple log section. Peanut butter frosting, owe boy, one of my favorate.
Baron slipping on that log, I had to go back to figure out why he slipped.
He gets down and pulls like an experienced horse. Baron seems to have a passion for pulling and working, he can hardly wait to to pull the next log. He is really coming along nicely, but I recognize that is not without alot of hard work and dozens of hours of training to get to this point. Boy Brenda, great exersize, so happy your knee is doing so much better.
Thank you. Love to see the hardwoods, it's quite differant than the wonderful pine hollow.
Ken, keep getting better big fella.
Saluting his caregivers. Good job.
I'm sure if Baron could speak he would say a few words !! Like "Good Morning" "Goodbye" and
" What's for dinner ?" Tee, Hee !!
Great clip today, Jim and Brenda !! You sure have to trudge you way through that snow to get those great camera shots, Brenda !! Sure appreciate your efforts !! Your videos are all well done and interesting !! Thank you !!
impressive how smart he is as well is the rest of your horses and that has a lot to do with how jim has trained them and how patient and methodical jim is with his horses. i think it ended up being a good set up with baron learning with bill as his team mate, billy's a good ol' boy! God Bless
Thank you Jim and Brenda. Bill and Baron are so handsome. I have had those hang up days and survived. Your safety and the two horses are all that matters.❤❤❤❤
Jim &Brenda, How wonderful Baron is learning on the job the tricks of logging...Bill is a quiet teacher for the the youngster for sure...my grandfather had a pair on our farm that he used for hauling wood, hay and plowing...he also had them pull the sugaring sled up in our maple stand...we always had extra relatives show up to help with the suagering season...so much fun to run into the tree lines and gather the buckets ( old school method) Baron will settle into a very reliable role as he gets stronger and older...Cheers from Maine.
So happy to see Baron progressing to well. I notice Jim give verbal praise and pats for Baron, when most of the older horses don't get them. They probably got their share when they were young. Great job in training Baron, but I can't wait for the colts to start as well!
Baron just seems like great horse iv noticed jim gets great results being calm cool .i think the horses seem to know their helping their dad and are eagerly to work
Your waking nightmare of a day was great solace to me because I can tell you some stories lolol. Thank you for your candidness. I love this channel.
For a young stallion, Baron is so well behaved. Are you going to leave him intact? He really should spread his genes around. Beautiful and smart boy!
WHAT A HORSE!
I remember the day you bought Duke and Earl, and had a look at their sire, a working stallion, and I felt your dream, because it would have been my own dream, had it been me. Just how Baron came about was God's work, I know He places the best with the very best, Baron is living proof of that.
Also God's work you have been forced to use Baron as main summer team. Ken is Baron's rock, it is hard to fart about being so eager when your team mate is a rock.
You are a very canny horseman Jim, and I wish you all the best with this team and summer farming. Thanks Brenda, behind every great man is an amazing woman. Greetings from Australia.
Jim, you just made a picnic clearing no worries! Remember better days ahead and you got a cupcake today!
Great footage Brenda, really appreciate all your effort to get all the good shots.
this is such a great video. Love to see Baron working a little more as Jim trains him. Baron and Bill work great together. Looks like Baron going to be a strong horse
Just love Barons soft eye and baby face
gosh Baron and Bill are doing great
I do love their thankfully not so short tails. They look so part of those lovely horses. Didnity. 🐴🐴👍
Baron is really far for his age. Really a great horse. Impatience and fidgeting are relatively easy to get under control, with a little patience. So much agree with all that Jim was saying about training young horses. What an excellent horse trainer he is!!! Have a wonderful week! -Chris
Thanks, you too!
Great video enjoyed it very much Jim and Brenda
Great job! Barron is doing great due to your wonderful abilities with horses. They make a good team from what I see so far.
It is nice to see Baron's progress. Interesting choice to prevent the Skid Steer from getting stuck. The horses have to work with a lot of rapid commands and you have to keep track of the whole process. Not easy. Enjoyed watching the process.
Great video Jim. Im glad Barron is pulling so well hopefully him and Bill will make you a really good team
your land is beautiful....you are blessed to have so much.
Thanks again for sharing and I still enjoy watching your posts!!!
Got to watch them fingers around Baron the brave. I think he just wants to impress his big bro Bill. ❤
Great video as always. Baron is looking great and him and Bill look fantastic together.
A gentleman I worked for years ago told me he used to hook a team on the front of his farmall H when ploughing in the fall if it was wet. He had a ring on the front of the tractor, and he would just tie the lines within reach but slack. The horses knew where to go and they just walked along out of draft until the tractor started spinning then they would dig in and act like a 4wd assist.
That 1998 ice storm did a lot of damage here too.
I believe the Suffolks, in particular, suffered the collateral damage post WW2 as farms mechanised. It was pretty much a wholesale slaughter among the heavy horse breeds. The Suffolks, not being used much other than in agriculture, and that principally in their native land. If you research the decline in all draft breeds between 1940 and 1950 it will shock you. The horses got left behind in the rush to bigger-faster-better in all areas of farming and logging and haulage. I have old magazine articles that quote statistics from Breed organisations in the US and Canada and the numbers are tragic.
After Barron get a few days of field work on the plow and harrow I think it will be to see if he settles on his breaks or if he is antsy to go. He is doing fantastic, really stepping up to the plate especially when you needed him.
Baron your coming along well have a day friends love from TEXAS
Jim was talking about cup cakes and coffee, I went and made my coffee, I bet Brenda makes really good baked goods.
Thanks for the video and update, so good to see all the horses doing well.
The boys did good!
This day was Baron’s trial by (logging) fire. He’s an amazing young horse who handles every job he’s asked to handle. Sleep well tonight Barry.
These videos are invaluable and for teaching ! Thank goodness their are still men like Jim who knows so much about logging with horses and teaching young draft horses they are few and far between. So enjoy the question Brenda asks.
That was easier than I thought or expected. Nice to see Dr lydia back❤❤❤
Wow I was just thinking what a great team all four of you made today❤😊 great job ❤😊
Baron is doing SO GOOD! and it looks like he likes to pull. : ) Maybe that's why he doesn't like to stand still - he's ready to pull.
Good job Baron & Bill.
Young Baron is doing very well😊!
I wonder if Baron and Lady’s foal is going to grow up to be as impatient as its parents are! Baron’s pawing while waiting reminded me so much of Lady. “Let’s get ON with it already!”
This is Brenda, I said the same thing!! Time will tell!
I'm so impressed with Bill & Barron working so well together!
Jim, you and Brenda are doing very well with training. Yes, I said Brenda Bill and Barron love's your support being so kind and gentle with each other. This absolutely helps their confidence
Thank you so much for sharing !!
I know you hook them light when training , but the worst injury I ever saw was on a mule I got that was hooked to a beech log that my Doberman could have pulled , she got away off a steep hill, had a big knot on Lt. hip about 1/3 size of a basketball, thankfully it never seemed to bother her , but it never went away !!
Enjoy your videos. Barron logging and Jim working the horses
Good little job with the young horses Jim . 😊
Pure magic watching Jim work the team so quietly and confidently. Barron is doing great! The horses listen so well and don’t question the commands given . Great training for Barron . Having the older team mate is so beneficial to a young horse . Brings back a lot of memories of my dad logging with the team. Thanks Jim and Brenda. Friends in Canada.
Well done to all! I'm just hoping Bill and (especially) Baron got the equine equivalent of a coffee and a cup cake when they got back into their stalls! They look to be working really well as a team with their excellent Teamster.
Another outstanding video. It looks like Barton is working very good with Bill. Jim you have incredible patience and that’s why your teams are so good. Thank you.
BRENDA, PLEASE CHECK YOUR TEAMS. SAYS KEN AND BUCK. SORRY BUT PEOPLE WHO DON'T WATCH A LOT WILL BE CONFUSED. YOUR DOING A GREAT JOB. LOVE TO SEE ALL THE NEW STUFF. ❤
REALLY enjoyed this video!! Wonderful to see Baron step up to the plate for Jim ( and Bill ) and give them his darndest, if that's a word!!! What a beautiful, good boy he is!! It was a pleasure watching Jim & the horses, and Brenda, always a pleasure for us to watch you too!!! Your cupcakes looked delicious, by the way. I'm sure they enjoyed them at church as well! Thank you for sharing your lives with us all, have a wonderful week.
Suffolk horses love logging like they were born for it. We have to keep breeding to make a comeback
Oh my goodness, how impressive !!!
HI Jim, Brenda, Barn is doing so good, with teaching from you Jim, And A little help from Bill. Brenda, i have to say to you, by the look's of that cupcake, Jim is one lucky man. I wish i was there to have one, maybe two of those great looking cupcakes. GOD BLESS, great video. Jim, Nova Scotia, Canada..
We would share if you were here!
Hoooo Boy! Welcome to Mud Season!! Jim and Brenda, you folks are doing a great service for the Suffolk, Punch, Suffolk Punch breed with your postings on what all you and the Suffolks are doing. Thanks!! Stay safe and have fun.
You guys and the cupcake break are so cute 😊
Great job on another great day in the woods with Barron! In my opinion the team are working together very well.
Baron is an amazing colt! I think both horses compliment one another really well ❤
Those horses are beautiful ❤
Thank you for slowing down your pace. Today really slowed me down. I could contemplate all the things I never knew. I had time to think about how our ancestors lived, and I really believe they had a quieter gentler life with more meaning.
At 28:27 it looked like Baron was putting his back into it. Great video as usual
Smart idea JIM.
Berons doing a wonderful job fir a colt
This too is an important lesson. Great job Jim and Brenda. I too am looking forward to a peanut butter frosted cup cake.
Perhaps I'm addicted to this channel...I just realized I told my dog to "Whoa" and "back up". What's next? 'Careful Step' 'Gee' and 'Haw'? :-]
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I hadn’t noticed, but I have a young beagle I’m training and I’m doing the same thing! Ha Ha, Ho?
I always love it when you guys are working together, you ask some very good questions Brenda. How does a horse instinctively pull or seam to know how to pull when Jim asks them to. Believe it or not horses know when you ask them to go they know to pull. Horses for the most part want to please their herd leader and that is Jim. From not such a young age Jim has been teaching the commands he will use that are simple and quick, The horses communicate with each other while they are standing there and Bill is giving Baron encouragement to pull when he does. Horses want to be useful by getting them ready to be hitched in the morning or the afternoon they have their game faces on for work and when they play, they play hard. Bill is a great balance for Baron he is slower to start but he pulls most of the load which Bill is used to, But Baron in a lot of ways in my observation is so much like Lady, very impatient, wants to go, very eager to pull and hates to stand still for a long time does a lot of pawing the ground and snorting. Baron is going to make a great logging horse as long as he remembers to wait to be told to go. He already trusts you both and it is incredible how much he trusts you both. Most horses hear a chain saw and they are like oh crap a big scary beast is coming and books it. The first time i saw Baron he was jumpy but it soon didn't bother him because he had Bill or Ken there to keep him grounded those horses are truly amazing animals The Suffolk Punch Breed is down a lot in numbers but thanks to people like you who are training colts to do logging and using the breed as work horses their numbers have started to go up. The Suffolk Punch breed is a very hardy breed of horse with the right training they can become great pulling horses. They can do as much as any of the draft breeds out there for such a small horse, they are like a tank,
I have been watching y9 videos for quite some time and enjoying them emencely I live in cape breton nova scotia canada I have a team of clydesdales I use to haul my fire wood and a few sleigh rides it is my greatest pleasure doing this thanks again for posting PS o have a half dozen friends watching your video they say there hooked lol
Well you have a nice day and enjoy it.
We in Regina Saskatchewan had -10 F. And we have no above freezing for at least a week.😢😢😮
Another good video Jim. Barons really coming along. gotta say though Bill is the best and Ithink very good for both you and Baron.
Baron is doing very well, your patients is paying off.
loving your video as always...glad everyone is doing well...Blessings spoken over all of you and the viewers...lov from south alabama.
Baron is doing great. I can’t help to think having different horses to work with helps him learn since they are so well trained. Maybe people just look for the large horses as work horses but the Suffolk are awfully good looking breed.
Great job to you all