Super cool Buggy!! Most of the buggies here have fancy places for oil lamps in the back and sides up front for early morning and the occasional night ride!!!
I see these all the time where I live in South Central Pennylvania, Amish Country. They can hold up a good amount of traffic going up a hill when you cannot pass on our old country 2 lane roads. For the seven years I have lived in this state I have never seen an accident, thank goodness. My heart goes out to the horses that have to clop along those paved roads every day in all sorts of weather. :(
Thank you for giving the wheel details! I never thought about the expanding of the wood! You should come visit this summer while Eric rebuilds the winter sled/wagon . It was gifted to him since he is the Smithy and all our homesteaders want him trained to repair the draft vehicles . He’s already altered for dog carters carts. So now it’s draft horse and draft goat vehicles to train himself with.
Horses have pretty much been the greatest transportation mode for centuries of our world. I bet the peacefulness is amazing. I drove 48 states with my husband on an 18 wheeler it was amazing 🤩 but I’ve also been on a Harley nation wide as well but the horse is beautiful and calming ❤️🤍💙
That's the one vehicle I wanted the most, for all the reasons Doug stated. My late husband understood. But everyone else thought we was crazy to want it. You know what we didn't care. But we never got to get one..darn the luck.
Hi folks. Just like to say how I absolutely love your buggies and carts.... Please keep up the good work.... WHEN PETROL AND DIESEL RUN OUT THE BUGGYS WILL DEFINITELY COME IN HANDY... JUST LOVE HORSE AND CART.. ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU ON YOUR DEMONSTRATION.... ALL THE BEST... SUE HEMMINGS....
Just going through some past vids this was really neat. I find you and Stacy to be very cool cats, much success in your long term life endeavor. thanks for taking us on the ride of your life.
i restored a 150 YO mountain carriage for my spouse in the early 90's to show a matched pair of leopard Appy's under harness. it took me 6 months of hard work to restore that sucker. each wheel had 12 coats of hand rubbed acrylic lacquer and 3 coats of primer! each coat taking approximately 1 hr per wheel! ugh! i had to recreate the seat as it was falling apart as well as the floor. i also had to hand make some of the hardware.A friend i had at the time Larry Fader did all the lettering and pinstripe it turned out gorgeous and allow her to win a National championship the first time out. we also rode in it to our wedding party after we married! right down the frigging street! heck we turned some heads! gonna have to pull that thing out of the shipping container and have a look at it. as its been stored over ten years!
My grandfather used mules to work his farm and they were his only transportation.he used s burlap sake to bring back. what he needed from the store which wasn't much the farm provided what he and grandma needed.They raised twelve children. I never heard him compain it was just the way life was
I always liked using the most compact model of equine transport possible. We had POA (Pony of the Americas) ponies for years and years. A small horse or pony can do an incredible amount of work around the homestead. One large pony can pull a vehicle like your buggy and they can also pull garden implements like a single bottom plow or a drag harrow or even help drag smaller logs for firewood. When I was a kid we used a Welsh pony to plow our garden, pull a buggy and perform a lot of draft tasks on our homestead. Unlike those big draft horses, a large pony gets a lot of miles to the hay bale too.
I think a lot of it depends on the individual pony. We had a Shetland that we used to pull out all of the stumps in an old fruit orchard. We would partially dig the stump and then hitch her on. She would instinctively rock back and forth into the traces until she felt the stump loosen and then drop into the collar and dig until that stump came out. She only weighed about 400 pounds, but she was a mighty workhorse because of her mind and heart. BTW... When you are discussing a horse drawn conveyance the proper terminology IS vehicle. They were called vehicles, before there were cars and trucks to confuse the issue.
Awesome stuff Doug.....Love the buggies! Every episode makes my wife and I more and more ready to get the heck out and start our real homestead. Thanks,
As an equestrian: if you add an U/V shaped thing into your gear, it will really help the horse pull more in weight. Essentially it goes onto the withers, fastened to the "saddle/girth" there and it kinda pulls the leather off the horse, making the load feel lighter. They have their own name, but if you google enough with old 1900's farming photos you'll come across them.
Hi Doug in the State of Indiana the Amish buggy all have lights state law + a slow moving vehicle sign. I live in St Joe country next t Elkhart there's a lot of Amish anMennonite community. We have a buggy with a snow on the front, down the street from my Father in law house. The owner used four draft horses to pull it. Remember safety is # one on your Homestead.
Thank you for mentioning the reflectors...I am from a farming community, and those triangles are on all the Amish buggies as well as on all the tractors. I just feel that people need to know what they are. They are slow moving vehicle signs. The sides of the triangle are reflective, and in headlights, they look like black triangles surrounded by an orange border. These are REQUIRED BY LAW.
I've got an electric car and solar panels because I want to be energy independent and not support OPEC but youre taking your transportation to a whole new level. Awesome. Only emissions you're producing is when your horse farts. I want to have a horse and wagon someday. My homestead is in rural Hawaii near a small town so a buggy would work.
LOVE! I remember as a little girl going to my great grandma Bell's homestead down on the Buffalo River ( she was born in 1880 and actually DID homestead the Buffalo River Valley) We would ride in the buggy every were we went
You're right on Doug. We are going to need a mode of transportation that doesn't take gas but this is also only good as you say for those that have the room for a horse and to store hay. The buggies are awesome.
I have wanted a horse and buggy for years, everyone in my family thinks i'm crazy, but until we can find land we cant get one, i am trying to homestead in the city :)
Even though I've wanted to build a wood gasification carbureted car that would work in a SHTF situation, I've always liked the horse and buggy idea also.Thanks for sharing!
The emp part. Yes yes. That's why I keep at least one horse. I just sold off all my gypsy horses.. and decided on just a regular horse. I plan to get him trained to cart. Been planning this already. Great video
Was it a very big learning curve? Care of the buggies, attaching the horse, driving the buggies? I'm glad you have neighbors willing to teach you. I know Doug has a sharp mind and can learn new things pretty easy. Just look at your homestead! Thank you for sharing. Though I have thought of a saddle horse, I never considered a buggy, before.
That small one is sooooo cute!! I didn't realize you say in it. Never seen one. I thought you rode the horse and pulled the wagon for carrying supplies or something. This was soooo cool to see and understand. Thank you for the education! Love and hugs, Lisa
Yay Doug. So glad to see this video. I've been waiting it seems for ever for one of these. It was one of your horse video's that brought me to your channel in the beginning. Yay. More please. Thank you, thank you thank you.
Were from NB Canada and we travel over to Maine for shopping and we went down to the Amish looking to buy steel roofing for a mini home we purchased and I asked the guy if they ever thought of a buggy that was set up like a treadmill for the horse and you drive it like a car and you could have a transmission in it so it could go faster than a regular buggy. He said that they thought of that. but I guess they never made one. I like to think outside the box sometimes...
I was just teasing the wife the other day that I'm going to get her a one horsepower pony car, and there you had one front and center! The one horsepower pickup truck is a great addition too. ;)
That is very cool! Right now our only alternative source of getting around are bicycles, and I am still wanting to get a buggy for the bikes to pull. We are not set up for horses at this point! But that is totally awesome! Great buggies!
Greetings y’all!😁. Some modern day things are nice, yet I still love old fashioned stuff! It’s just so Natural!😁. And you’re so right....what’s gonna work during a solar flare or shtf situation?! Old fashioned stuff will work!😁. Great video! 💕Always, Carol
we have 2 horses, and my mare is a Haflinger that's saddle, and buggy trained and her son whose going to be broke to ride this year that haflinger/old quarter horse breed, but is need a gelding job done in the next 2mons, loved the video! 👍 👍 😉 💕 😇 ☮ Kellie 💕 God bless you all!
Also Doug instead of the little mud flap if you made a little compartment that would hide the part that rotates for the steering and have it extend so that the buggy looks like a old model T and it would be used for storage like on a volks waggon bug and you would be the envy of the Amish. Just a thought
Doug I do like your way of thinking. What is funny is when I was having vehicle issues in April the first thing I wanted to do was trade in my vehicle for a horse and buggy. But like you said I currently live in town and nowhere to keep the horse.
Hi Doug and Stacy, My kids and I just saw you both at the Homesteaders of America Conference, we love you both! I’m originally from NYC and I never learned to drive a car, no need in the city and fear was part of it. My dream is to own a horse someday and I’ve always said I wanted my own horse and buggy to drive about town. The kids and I have taken a few driving lessons at a local farm and I hope to continue it in the future. Love the videos.
Good stuff! Here in southeast PA, there are large Amish and Mennonite communities, we see the buggies, horses and even sleds in the winter, often. We go to their craft shows and farmers markets. There is a wide difference in the way they lead their lives. Most use electricity in one way or another, solar, wind, gas generators. Almost all are off grid, 'no wires coming to the homes'. Some even have modern cars. Their ways are not set in stone, they will vote to use more modern equipment and techniques. Modern homesteading...
Great video. FYI - Last spring I built a green house, this year I built a chicken coup. It's actually nice that we have both fresh vegetables, and soon eggs from out chickens. My goal isn't to go totally off grid like you two. Instead I want to get to a point were me and my family could if we wanted too. Please keep posting videos.
I have seen many of these on the road but didn't really know much about them, thanks for sharing it was very informative and would enjoy seeing more on this type of gear.
Slick ride. Nice. I don't have a buggy but I do have my horses. At this point there aren't my main mode of transportation but in a blink of an eye they could be. We do saddle up to run fence. They best thing is God's green earth provide the fuel for them. Sweet. Great video.
I LOVE IT!!! Looks way more omfortable than my buckboard idea ( those I can find easily around here) yours looks way more comfy! I was thinking more storage for carrying things I guess. This is awesome!! You knew this cowgirl would love a horse drawn buggy! Lol!
Love it! I intent to get a buggy and since I am an old lady and I have been there, done that, and am just getting back to it, I want to paint my buggy pink with white stripes...just because I can! LOL!
Laconia , NH -Harley-Davidson bike week 1983 or 84 ? There isn't many Harley riders that haven't heard of it ... I used to nod off almost fall asleep on the back from the purring sound of the engine . Buggy rides are fun too lol
lol. homesteading for me is keeping your cost down and a horse you have to feed or let graze or for me something else to take care of. again lol LOVE THE CABIN...
ATM I have saddle horses, I use them to ride at times they are pretty good about traffic with the exception of the long trains of the loud motor bikes. they have never pulled a buggy or anything before.
doug, do you and stacy live in a large amish area? How neat that you have added the amish transportation to your preps. I bet one can learn a LOT from the amish! Thanks for sharing...
Cool idea, thanks. I've been thinking of doing a tour of the States in a wagon, most I've seen doing so are in a large wagon. This got me to thinking about a Amish style buggy pulling a wagon, for feed/hay and such. Wouldn't need 4 draft horses, just one or two Standards or crosses. I believe the steering pivot section is called a 5th wheel, just like the one on my big truck.
Cool, informative and very interesting. Just so you know there's still horse and buggy being used in Baltimore Maryland. There's still a couple old time merchant men who use horse and buggy in the city. It could be possible if you have a garage with no doors on it to repurpose that to a horse stall. In a SHTF scenario. Thumbs up.
Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, explained why walking is the fastest way to get someplace. You have to take into account the amount of work it takes for the fare or the upkeep. When you do, you could have walked there faster.
Sure. Figure out the expense of keeping horse and buggy for a year. Divide it by how many trips you take and how far you go, and how long you would have to work to make that amount of money. I'll win because walking takes almost no more food than standing still, so all my walking counts for travel time.
As an Avid off roader and I live in a rural you can't always count on pavement. wider wheels help your power supply be it human or what ever power supply. Poor horse and you when you sink into the muck. Be kind even the old cross country wagons of old had wider wheels . Yes your rigs are a super idea but can be improved. Just a though not browbeating. You all are well onto the right path!
I love your videos! I wonder if you could teach the basics on horses. I hear so many in love with the romance of a horse. And the buggy is super except here in the north we can use the cutters in the winter. They are awesome but VERY VERY COLD to travel far in.
It appears you have a troll 😒. I had a small pony that we were going to put to cart before we had neighbor issues. Now the plan is to sell and move. We are lucky enough to live very close to an Amish community and they have a buggy maker! I can't wait to get one.
I am ABSOLUTELY going to do this. This is the exact video I was hoping to find.
Doug, that definitely was a great video; does add a little perspective to transportation during a grid down situation! Thanks for sharing!
Nothing like the clip clop of horses hooves, driving a cart is a wonderful way to travel. Used to do it around 1982. Too far from town now though.
Super cool Buggy!! Most of the buggies here have fancy places for oil lamps in the back and sides up front for early morning and the occasional night ride!!!
I see these all the time where I live in South Central Pennylvania, Amish Country. They can hold up a good amount of traffic going up a hill when you cannot pass on our old country 2 lane roads. For the seven years I have lived in this state I have never seen an accident, thank goodness. My heart goes out to the horses that have to clop along those paved roads every day in all sorts of weather. :(
Thank you for giving the wheel details! I never thought about the expanding of the wood!
You should come visit this summer while Eric rebuilds the winter sled/wagon . It was gifted to him since he is the Smithy and all our homesteaders want him trained to repair the draft vehicles . He’s already altered for dog carters carts. So now it’s draft horse and draft goat vehicles to train himself with.
Horses have pretty much been the greatest transportation mode for centuries of our world. I bet the peacefulness is amazing. I drove 48 states with my husband on an 18 wheeler it was amazing 🤩 but I’ve also been on a Harley nation wide as well but the horse is beautiful and calming ❤️🤍💙
This is exactly what every Prepper/Homesteader needs for sure. You hit the nail on the head with this one. Great job!
That's the one vehicle I wanted the most, for all the reasons Doug stated. My late husband understood. But everyone else thought we was crazy to want it. You know what we didn't care. But we never got to get one..darn the luck.
Hi folks. Just like to say how I absolutely love your buggies and carts....
Please keep up the good work....
WHEN PETROL AND DIESEL RUN OUT THE BUGGYS WILL DEFINITELY COME IN HANDY...
JUST LOVE HORSE AND CART..
ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU ON YOUR DEMONSTRATION....
ALL THE BEST...
SUE HEMMINGS....
Just going through some past vids this was really neat. I find you and Stacy to be very cool cats, much success in your long term life endeavor. thanks for taking us on the ride of your life.
🤠👍
i restored a 150 YO mountain carriage for my spouse in the early 90's to show a matched pair of leopard Appy's under harness. it took me 6 months of hard work to restore that sucker. each wheel had 12 coats of hand rubbed acrylic lacquer and 3 coats of primer! each coat taking approximately 1 hr per wheel! ugh! i had to recreate the seat as it was falling apart as well as the floor. i also had to hand make some of the hardware.A friend i had at the time Larry Fader did all the lettering and pinstripe it turned out gorgeous and allow her to win a National championship the first time out. we also rode in it to our wedding party after we married! right down the frigging street! heck we turned some heads! gonna have to pull that thing out of the shipping container and have a look at it. as its been stored over ten years!
My grandfather used mules to work his farm and they were his only transportation.he used s burlap sake to bring back. what he needed from the store which wasn't much the farm provided what he and grandma needed.They raised twelve children. I never heard him compain it was just the way life was
I always liked using the most compact model of equine transport possible. We had POA (Pony of the Americas) ponies for years and years. A small horse or pony can do an incredible amount of work around the homestead. One large pony can pull a vehicle like your buggy and they can also pull garden implements like a single bottom plow or a drag harrow or even help drag smaller logs for firewood. When I was a kid we used a Welsh pony to plow our garden, pull a buggy and perform a lot of draft tasks on our homestead. Unlike those big draft horses, a large pony gets a lot of miles to the hay bale too.
I think a lot of it depends on the individual pony. We had a Shetland that we used to pull out all of the stumps in an old fruit orchard. We would partially dig the stump and then hitch her on. She would instinctively rock back and forth into the traces until she felt the stump loosen and then drop into the collar and dig until that stump came out. She only weighed about 400 pounds, but she was a mighty workhorse because of her mind and heart.
BTW... When you are discussing a horse drawn conveyance the proper terminology IS vehicle. They were called vehicles, before there were cars and trucks to confuse the issue.
How much do you think you have in the whole rig {the horse, the rigging and the winter buggy]?
I think these are a must for self sufficiency to any homesteader and prepper. Love it! Thank you!
Awesome stuff Doug.....Love the buggies! Every episode makes my wife and I more and more ready to get the heck out and start our real homestead. Thanks,
As an equestrian: if you add an U/V shaped thing into your gear, it will really help the horse pull more in weight.
Essentially it goes onto the withers, fastened to the "saddle/girth" there and it kinda pulls the leather off the horse, making the load feel lighter.
They have their own name, but if you google enough with old 1900's farming photos you'll come across them.
Hi Doug in the State of Indiana the Amish buggy all have lights state law + a slow moving vehicle sign. I live in St Joe country next t Elkhart there's a lot of Amish anMennonite community. We have a buggy with a snow on the front, down the street from my Father in law house. The owner used four draft horses to pull it. Remember safety is # one on your Homestead.
Thank you for mentioning the reflectors...I am from a farming community, and those triangles are on all the Amish buggies as well as on all the tractors. I just feel that people need to know what they are. They are slow moving vehicle signs. The sides of the triangle are reflective, and in headlights, they look like black triangles surrounded by an orange border.
These are REQUIRED BY LAW.
I've got an electric car and solar panels because I want to be energy independent and not support OPEC but youre taking your transportation to a whole new level. Awesome. Only emissions you're producing is when your horse farts. I want to have a horse and wagon someday. My homestead is in rural Hawaii near a small town so a buggy would work.
LOVE! I remember as a little girl going to my great grandma Bell's homestead down on the Buffalo River ( she was born in 1880 and actually DID homestead the Buffalo River Valley) We would ride in the buggy every were we went
Whew!!!! Another one down! Really enjoying all of the great information as I work my way through your videos.
You're right on Doug. We are going to need a mode of transportation that doesn't take gas but this is also only good as you say for those that have the room for a horse and to store hay. The buggies are awesome.
Homestead Homies! 😆
Percheron horses for farming and driving.
Im blessed to have a job driving Percheron’s downtown Toronto.
Dream job.
I have wanted a horse and buggy for years, everyone in my family thinks i'm crazy, but until we can find land we cant get one, i am trying to homestead in the city :)
Even though I've wanted to build a wood gasification carbureted car that would work in a SHTF situation, I've always liked the horse and buggy idea also.Thanks for sharing!
The emp part. Yes yes. That's why I keep at least one horse. I just sold off all my gypsy horses.. and decided on just a regular horse. I plan to get him trained to cart. Been planning this already. Great video
Doug you're absolutely right on being prepared thank you for all your tips and knowledge🤪
Was it a very big learning curve? Care of the buggies, attaching the horse, driving the buggies? I'm glad you have neighbors willing to teach you. I know Doug has a sharp mind and can learn new things pretty easy. Just look at your homestead! Thank you for sharing. Though I have thought of a saddle horse, I never considered a buggy, before.
Not that big but I am a fast learner
That small one is sooooo cute!! I didn't realize you say in it. Never seen one. I thought you rode the horse and pulled the wagon for carrying supplies or something. This was soooo cool to see and understand. Thank you for the education! Love and hugs, Lisa
Greetings from Ireland. Awesome transport, the fiberglass wheel's are a fantastic idea.
Yay Doug. So glad to see this video. I've been waiting it seems for ever for one of these. It was one of your horse video's that brought me to your channel in the beginning. Yay. More please. Thank you, thank you thank you.
Going through the old videos is great :)
Glad you think so!
What a great Idea! I had thought about looking for a halflinger that was trained to ride and drive once I get my farm going
Were from NB Canada and we travel over to Maine for shopping and we went down to the Amish looking to buy steel roofing for a mini home we purchased and I asked the guy if they ever thought of a buggy that was set up like a treadmill for the horse and you drive it like a car and you could have a transmission in it so it could go faster than a regular buggy. He said that they thought of that. but I guess they never made one. I like to think outside the box sometimes...
I was just teasing the wife the other day that I'm going to get her a one horsepower pony car, and there you had one front and center! The one horsepower pickup truck is a great addition too. ;)
I LOVE this!!!! Doug and Stacy are incredible. Thank you for these videos.
This is awesome Doug thanks man. When I think off grid this is what I think! Lol! I'd love to get around like this some day ❤️ I miss horses so much.
Wow found a oldie
@@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY haha I just noticed that!
That is very cool! Right now our only alternative source of getting around are bicycles, and I am still wanting to get a buggy for the bikes to pull. We are not set up for horses at this point! But that is totally awesome! Great buggies!
I love them, I'm looking forward to more videos.
Greetings y’all!😁. Some modern day things are nice, yet I still love old fashioned stuff! It’s just so Natural!😁. And you’re so right....what’s gonna work during a solar flare or shtf situation?! Old fashioned stuff will work!😁. Great video! 💕Always, Carol
Doug I wood like to see you and Stacy on a road trip in them. It would be cool to see do a video going to the store
we have 2 horses, and my mare is a Haflinger that's saddle, and buggy trained and her son whose going to be broke to ride this year that haflinger/old quarter horse breed, but is need a gelding job done in the next 2mons, loved the video! 👍 👍 😉 💕 😇 ☮ Kellie 💕 God bless you all!
Also Doug instead of the little mud flap if you made a little compartment that would hide the part that rotates for the steering and have it extend so that the buggy looks like a old model T and it would be used for storage like on a volks waggon bug and you would be the envy of the Amish. Just a thought
And thanks for answering Kristens questions about homemade yogurt recently. we will be delving into that really soon. :)
Doug I do like your way of thinking. What is funny is when I was having vehicle issues in April the first thing I wanted to do was trade in my vehicle for a horse and buggy. But like you said I currently live in town and nowhere to keep the horse.
Hi Doug and Stacy, My kids and I just saw you both at the Homesteaders of America Conference, we love you both! I’m originally from NYC and I never learned to drive a car, no need in the city and fear was part of it. My dream is to own a horse someday and I’ve always said I wanted my own horse and buggy to drive about town. The kids and I have taken a few driving lessons at a local farm and I hope to continue it in the future. Love the videos.
And I'm joy Freeman's son. I love your videos!
It would be so cool to have a horse and buggy 🐎
Good stuff! Here in southeast PA, there are large Amish and Mennonite communities, we see the buggies, horses and even sleds in the winter, often. We go to their craft shows and farmers markets. There is a wide difference in the way they lead their lives. Most use electricity in one way or another, solar, wind, gas generators. Almost all are off grid, 'no wires coming to the homes'. Some even have modern cars. Their ways are not set in stone, they will vote to use more modern equipment and techniques. Modern homesteading...
Great video. FYI - Last spring I built a green house, this year I built a chicken coup. It's actually nice that we have both fresh vegetables, and soon eggs from out chickens. My goal isn't to go totally off grid like you two. Instead I want to get to a point were me and my family could if we wanted too. Please keep posting videos.
great video. always wanted a tour of a buggy. Thanks!
Ok thank you Doug. I will look into it. God Bless
Very interesting video Doug. Thanks
I have seen many of these on the road but didn't really know much about them, thanks for sharing it was very informative and would enjoy seeing more on this type of gear.
Slick ride. Nice. I don't have a buggy but I do have my horses. At this point there aren't my main mode of transportation but in a blink of an eye they could be. We do saddle up to run fence. They best thing is God's green earth provide the fuel for them. Sweet. Great video.
Very interesting , thanks for showing us that.
That is so cool. I love horses and I would totally do the horse and buggy thing. I love that you are bare foot. I miss being able to do that.
You guys definitely have me thinking! Would also love to see some more videos on things to cook in the sun oven! Thanks for sharing!
I LOVE IT!!! Looks way more omfortable than my buckboard idea ( those I can find easily around here) yours looks way more comfy! I was thinking more storage for carrying things I guess. This is awesome!! You knew this cowgirl would love a horse drawn buggy! Lol!
Nice video. I'm excited to see you show the horses and how to sable up for towing the buggies around. :) I 've rode horse back but not yet carriage.
Love it! I intent to get a buggy and since I am an old lady and I have been there, done that, and am just getting back to it, I want to paint my buggy pink with white stripes...just because I can! LOL!
That is a fifth wheel .
A bicycle was my way of traveling when I was young.
I would love to take a ride :)
Revisiting this one... This is still hugely relevant 👍
Love it!! Great tools and animals to have.
Laconia , NH -Harley-Davidson bike week 1983 or 84 ? There isn't many Harley riders that haven't heard of it ... I used to nod off almost fall asleep on the back from the purring sound of the engine . Buggy rides are fun too lol
lol. homesteading for me is keeping your cost down and a horse you have to feed or let graze or for me something else to take care of. again lol LOVE THE CABIN...
ATM I have saddle horses, I use them to ride at times they are pretty good about traffic with the exception of the long trains of the loud motor bikes. they have never pulled a buggy or anything before.
doug, do you and stacy live in a large amish area? How neat that you have added the amish transportation to your preps. I bet one can learn a LOT from the amish! Thanks for sharing...
Fascinating! I always wondered about the Amish buggies....learned something!
I love horse and buggys i have always wanted to ride one
Love this!! Do you still use those? Would enjoy seeing updated drone footage:) So cool!!
Cool idea, thanks. I've been thinking of doing a tour of the States in a wagon, most I've seen doing so are in a large wagon.
This got me to thinking about a Amish style buggy pulling a wagon, for feed/hay and such. Wouldn't need 4 draft horses, just one or two Standards or crosses.
I believe the steering pivot section is called a 5th wheel, just like the one on my big truck.
Yess!!!! If it goes down, there wouldn't even be gas to buy!
Cool, informative and very interesting. Just so you know there's still horse and buggy being used in Baltimore Maryland. There's still a couple old time merchant men who use horse and buggy in the city. It could be possible if you have a garage with no doors on it to repurpose that to a horse stall. In a SHTF scenario. Thumbs up.
I'm been researching goat carts. Thanks Doug for this one.
I so want one these Amish buggies I'd keep one in my front yard and one in my garage.
Nice rides you got there! Awesome name of video to. Need to take them out for a spin sometime. Great video
very cool thanks for sharing!!
Let's see more about this!!
GREAT video! We are close friends with an OO Amish family and they have several buggies.
Oh and you need to wash your buggies. :-p
Driving horses is one of the funnest jobs there is.
My family owns a menonite horse wagon/ buggy, it was aquired in 40's
Thanks for this video, I really enjoyed it.
good points Doug as always!
Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, explained why walking is the fastest way to get someplace. You have to take into account the amount of work it takes for the fare or the upkeep. When you do, you could have walked there faster.
Sure. Figure out the expense of keeping horse and buggy for a year. Divide it by how many trips you take and how far you go, and how long you would have to work to make that amount of money. I'll win because walking takes almost no more food than standing still, so all my walking counts for travel time.
Love it & love you guys!
I made a wood gassifier to run my generator and working on one to run my tractor. But it does use potential fire wood
As an Avid off roader and I live in a rural you can't always count on pavement. wider wheels help your power supply be it human or what ever power supply. Poor horse and you when you sink into the muck. Be kind even the old cross country wagons of old had wider wheels . Yes your rigs are a super idea but can be improved. Just a though not browbeating. You all are well onto the right path!
Loving the buggies! How fun 🤗
I love your videos! I wonder if you could teach the basics on horses. I hear so many in love with the romance of a horse. And the buggy is super except here in the north we can use the cutters in the winter. They are awesome but VERY VERY COLD to travel far in.
It would be awesome to see some flames down the sides of your buggy!!
Fascinating!
It appears you have a troll 😒. I had a small pony that we were going to put to cart before we had neighbor issues. Now the plan is to sell and move. We are lucky enough to live very close to an Amish community and they have a buggy maker! I can't wait to get one.
+OFF GRID with DOUG and STACY I saw one that was like your winter buggy for $2,300. It was beautiful. Hoping I can find one a smudge cheaper.
where did get the wagon and how much it cost
Doug you mentioned fiberglass wheels. Where did you get them from?
I'm wanting to build a buggy and I know the problems with wood ones.
How much did they each cost and about how much do they each way?
7 years later, are you still using the same two buggy system?
You have a lot of grassy yard around the house with lots of sun. Is your garden big enough to sustain you through the winter months?
nice whips lol. great video
Some day my dream of having one will come true!😊