Great tutorial Jim! every time I watch I learn something new. plus get the enjoyment out of watching everything you guys do. around the farm and home. thanks so much for sharing! God Speed.
Another great video and thanks for sharing your memories. My first horse - one that I didn't have to share, was also blind in one eye. I too spent hours - all my free time, that first winter, with that horse, even just reading while she ate... and developed such a great bond and trust, especially on her blind side - no one else, man or beast could approach her on that side.
When I go to get water in the morning I can tell my shoes are missing, that floor is cold ! Looks like Bill did not mind that his (or my )shoe was missing !😃Have a great week end.
The pink rope device is called a soft shackle. Soft shackles are used in sailing, off-road recovery, and hammock camping for examples. The sharp corner of your hitch plate will cause premature wear of the soft shackle. It would be best used with a rounded surface such as a clevis, ring, or carabiner. You could place a clevis in one of the spare holes in the hitch plate so that it is readily available. Thanks for all of your videos and teaching; I am learning a lot about working with horses.
It looks like a really niece soft shackle, its surprising how much they will hold however it needs to go around a radius like a pin or as Phil said a steel clevis not two 90 degree turns on flat iron , it wont last long the way you had it hitched.
Thank you Jim for sharing the memories to your pony, that was nice for me to listen to. One day I also had a sulky and had an accident. It tipped over as we came to close to a ditch and the pony ran back to the barn about two miles away crossing a highway, but luckily nothing severe happend. Only the sulky was broken. For attaching the stoneboat to the cart you might also use a shackle; I use them very often when working with chains. I am very happy to see that you almost reached your 50k subscribers, you definitly deserve it. Have a very nice weekend both of you -Chris
It never ceases to amaze us how well trained your horses are. For example, when you put the collar on Bill, he lowered his head and put his ears back like he was assisting in the process. You truly are a great horseman. Thanks for your videos.
It would be very interesting to hear Jim tell of some of the run a ways he has had. He must of had some during all his time with horses. Love all your videos, by the way.
Your memories of your pony stimulated my own memories of my friend’s evil little Shetland who taught us to ride. It was a case of ride or die trying. 😂
Wanted to let you know that I picked up one of the brushes you had suggested from Amazon. I’ve had 3 or 4 different ones but this one is by far the best. It does a great job and the 2 channels that run down between the bristles make it really easy to clean and it’s really inexpensive besides.
Hi Jim, I also delivered the Grit in the 50's but I rode my bicycle and rode 5 or 6 miles living in a small farming community in Pennsylvania. Remember trying to win contests and prizes 😁. The problem I had when I got older there was no kids in the neighborhood that wanted to take over my route and it was hard to stop the deliveries.
Great memory of your first horse 🐎. My Dad had a horse 🐎 he would remember.He liked telling stories about riding it.Wish I could remember that horses name. Thanks 😊.
As a kid in the mid 70's I delivered newspapers (The Sunday editions of The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, they were huge papers) on my American Shetland pony, he was so elegant. He was about 11.5 hands a dappled brown paint with 4 socks, a white mane, tail and patches on both withers, he was a gentle, well mannered stallion, his name was Dusty, he lived to be 33. So many kids grew up riding him, he was also good at cutting cows. After school we would disappear for hours riding old logging roads in Brinnon Washington where I grew up.
As others have said, I too sold Grit, and then delivered on my Huffy bike in the early '60s. Plainfield Indiana. I sold seeds and Christmas cards, and eventually Avon, door to door. Tough way to make a living as a 12 year old. lol
You two are such a good team. Good to watch you work together. This video helped me realize that I never considered a horse's capacity to work. Seems like a willing horse will do whatever it is asked to do. Which means that the person has to be mindful of the horse. Is it easy to mistakenly ask a horse(s) to do too much or are horses smarter than people and just won't do what they cannot do?
Mules supposedly won't do harm to themselves like a horse will. Mules are not stubborn, they are smart and will refuse to work whereas a horse will go till it drops. Some mules and horses are smarter than some folks give them credit for. 🤔
I learn so much from these lessons even though I'm not planning on starting to work with horses. I think it's a good set of lessons for everyone to get a grasp on what it takes to stock our grocery stores! To think that the whole infrastructure started with draft animals, and you still play an important role despite all the mechanization of modern farming. I enjoyed this video as always 💕🐎
I delivered the Grit paper when I was about 10 or 12 years old. I wonder if the Grit is still around. Here in north Georgia a lot of charge has taken place. Brings back a lot of memories. Good video
My folks had a neighbor that had a picture when he was about 13 yrs old. . He had a blind horse that he used to help build the st. Augustine church. It’s amazing what one remembers with people!
Bill's a good horse, very attentive, and as you said he likes to run. One question I have is, how much weight is he carrying (not pulling) in a standing rest position when he's harnessed to the cart?? That weight would be the collar, the leather rigging, plus the poles from the cart. Is he so strong that that weight is nothing to him?? Great instructional video.
Awesome video! Bill was such a good boy. I loved the story about you and your pony Jim. I try to get my younger family members to understand the value of working hard even when they're young. They just prefer to have everything handed to them 😩
I remember riding on a tobacco "truck" as a kid on the farm.You can google to see how low they were to the ground. Mary the mule would take us up and down paths and back to barn.
when we were kids, we use to use a pitch fork to hang on to and stand up in the middle of the hay wagon while going to the hay field! we thought we were hot stuff!
Good video Jim, that high strength rope is great stuff. It has actually replaced steel cable on our job to pull conveyer belt, we like it a lot. I wonder how good a few hundred feet of it and a good snatch block would work attached to a horse to pull logs.
hi jim and brenda. brenda may i say you look good in pigtales and that hat.a real farm girl. jim this video was a good one. wish i was there to have hands on hitching up bill . jim with you as my teacher, you never know i might get it done. god bless , hi to everyone .. jim dartmouth, nova scotia, canada.
Hi Brenda and Jim. Love your show and the seasonal changes that require many different tasks be performed with your beautiful horses. When you are grooming the horses, I often wonder why you don't wear a facial mask. At times there's a huge amount of dust and hair obviously being removed from their coats. After the horses have been laying, rolling in dirt, manure etc I don't think I would like to be regularly breathing in whatever is in the air. Keep on with the great videos and please keep the 'tutorials' on horse care, management etc coming. p,s, sorry to hear that Whitey lost her kittens. Wonder what might have resulted in them all dying at about the same time?
When using a sweat pad, do you size up 1 or 2 inches for collars? So if our horse takes a 22inch collar... using a sweat pad would size her up to a 24 inch? or a 23?
I would like to ask why you chose to set your stall up the way they are? There has to be a good reason, efficient . Perhaps someone can direct me to the video that might talk about? I'm very new to this channel.
I think we talk about it in this video: How do the horses like their NEW BARN?!?!?! // Renovating a Draft Horse Barn with Standing Stalls ruclips.net/video/cmzvSTIxnHA/видео.html
Jim you told us a story of your good old days, those are stories you are making with your grandchildren! God bless you 🙏
Thanks and God bless you!
Great tutorial Jim! every time I watch I learn something new. plus get the enjoyment out of watching everything you guys do. around the farm and home. thanks so much for sharing! God Speed.
Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment
Thank you for demos on hook ups. Love the story on your younger day pony
Another great video and thanks for sharing your memories. My first horse - one that I didn't have to share, was also blind in one eye. I too spent hours - all my free time, that first winter, with that horse, even just reading while she ate... and developed such a great bond and trust, especially on her blind side - no one else, man or beast could approach her on that side.
Thanks for sharing!
Everything is excellent,,and Brenda did surf ride good,,,nice story about horse Nicky,,,
Thanks!
When I go to get water in the morning I can tell my shoes are missing, that floor is cold ! Looks like Bill did not mind that his (or my )shoe was missing !😃Have a great week end.
Haha, he didn’t say anything if he did
The pink rope device is called a soft shackle. Soft shackles are used in sailing, off-road recovery, and hammock camping for examples. The sharp corner of your hitch plate will cause premature wear of the soft shackle. It would be best used with a rounded surface such as a clevis, ring, or carabiner. You could place a clevis in one of the spare holes in the hitch plate so that it is readily available. Thanks for all of your videos and teaching; I am learning a lot about working with horses.
It looks like a really niece soft shackle, its surprising how much they will hold however it needs to go around a radius like a pin or as Phil said a steel clevis not two 90 degree turns on flat iron , it wont last long the way you had it hitched.
Thanks for sharing
Very informative, really liked the story about the pony. Reminds me of the pony we had when I was a boy.
Thank you Jim for sharing the memories to your pony, that was nice for me to listen to. One day I also had a sulky and had an accident. It tipped over as we came to close to a ditch and the pony ran back to the barn about two miles away crossing a highway, but luckily nothing severe happend. Only the sulky was broken. For attaching the stoneboat to the cart you might also use a shackle; I use them very often when working with chains. I am very happy to see that you almost reached your 50k subscribers, you definitly deserve it. Have a very nice weekend both of you -Chris
It never ceases to amaze us how well trained your horses are. For example, when you put the collar on Bill, he lowered his head and put his ears back like he was assisting in the process. You truly are a great horseman. Thanks for your videos.
Thank you, Jim and Brenda for another great video. 🇺🇸
You go Surfer Girl!!!
It would be very interesting to hear Jim tell of some of the run a ways he has had. He must of had some during all his time with horses.
Love all your videos, by the way.
Your memories of your pony stimulated my own memories of my friend’s evil little Shetland who taught us to ride. It was a case of ride or die trying. 😂
Ha ha, you must’ve been able to ride!
@@WorkingHorsesWithJim Yes . . . and I still have the scars where he ran me through a thorn patch. 🐎
Thank you for a great story Jim. Thank you Brenda for great narration and filming🙏
Wanted to let you know that I picked up one of the brushes you had suggested from Amazon. I’ve had 3 or 4 different ones but this one is by far the best. It does a great job and the 2 channels that run down between the bristles make it really easy to clean and it’s really inexpensive besides.
Thanks for letting us know, Glad it worked well for you
Wow, what a great childhood Jim, you must have had so much fun.
Hi Jim, I also delivered the Grit in the 50's but I rode my bicycle and rode 5 or 6 miles living in a small farming community in Pennsylvania. Remember trying to win contests and prizes 😁. The problem I had when I got older there was no kids in the neighborhood that wanted to take over my route and it was hard to stop the deliveries.
Yes those days are over.
Was fun to hear Jim travel down memory lane! Would be fun to hear more stories about other horses you have had!
Thanks for listening!
See, I like to hear the stories about the horses you have owned! Thank you.
Brenda the surfer babe! 😊
Thanks for sharing great video iam looking forward to you going to the horse pulls again stay safe and God bless
Yes we are too
Great memory of your first horse 🐎. My Dad had a horse 🐎 he would remember.He liked telling stories about riding it.Wish I could remember that horses name. Thanks 😊.
As a kid in the mid 70's I delivered newspapers (The Sunday editions of The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, they were huge papers) on my American Shetland pony, he was so elegant. He was about 11.5 hands a dappled brown paint with 4 socks, a white mane, tail and patches on both withers, he was a gentle, well mannered stallion, his name was Dusty, he lived to be 33. So many kids grew up riding him, he was also good at cutting cows. After school we would disappear for hours riding old logging roads in Brinnon Washington where I grew up.
As others have said, I too sold Grit, and then delivered on my Huffy bike in the early '60s. Plainfield Indiana. I sold seeds and Christmas cards, and eventually Avon, door to door. Tough way to make a living as a 12 year old. lol
Those good old huffy bikes!Sounds like you were a very industrious kid! Good for you!
You two are such a good team. Good to watch you work together. This video helped me realize that I never considered a horse's capacity to work. Seems like a willing horse will do whatever it is asked to do. Which means that the person has to be mindful of the horse. Is it easy to mistakenly ask a horse(s) to do too much or are horses smarter than people and just won't do what they cannot do?
Mules supposedly won't do harm to themselves like a horse will. Mules are not stubborn, they are smart and will refuse to work whereas a horse will go till it drops. Some mules and horses are smarter than some folks give them credit for. 🤔
@@alb5489 Thank you for your answer.
I learn so much from these lessons even though I'm not planning on starting to work with horses. I think it's a good set of lessons for everyone to get a grasp on what it takes to stock our grocery stores! To think that the whole infrastructure started with draft animals, and you still play an important role despite all the mechanization of modern farming. I enjoyed this video as always 💕🐎
Thanks so much for watching!
jim and brenda i hope all of you have a realy good weekend.
I delivered the Grit paper when I was about 10 or 12 years old. I wonder if the Grit is still around. Here in north Georgia a lot of charge has taken place. Brings back a lot of memories. Good video
Hi, good to see everyone working on this Friday.
U agency whit u
My folks had a neighbor that had a picture when he was about 13 yrs old. . He had a blind horse that he used to help build the st. Augustine church. It’s amazing what one remembers with people!
You have a great day too! Love what you in your videos.
Enjoy watching your videos and enjoy working with the horses
I just started watching your channel a few days ago. I just have to say I am in love with Bill's fluffy tail ❤️
Bill is very Majestic when he walks
I was waiting for a muddy Brenda lol have a day love from TEXAS
😀
That was another great video. Thank you very much.
Thanks for watching
Bill's a good horse, very attentive, and as you said he likes to run. One question I have is, how much weight is he carrying (not pulling) in a standing rest position when he's harnessed to the cart?? That weight would be the collar, the leather rigging, plus the poles from the cart. Is he so strong that that weight is nothing to him?? Great instructional video.
Awesome video! Bill was such a good boy. I loved the story about you and your pony Jim. I try to get my younger family members to understand the value of working hard even when they're young. They just prefer to have everything handed to them 😩
hello jim et brenda one hundred more subscribers.... it will happen !! i love the hat Brenda. stylin' in upper state NY
Bonjour! We are getting there!
Hello Jim Brenda great video thanks
Hello!
Thanks for the video. I've hitched many draft horse teams, but when I went to hitch my single light horse to a cart, I was confused lol!
I remember riding on a tobacco "truck" as a kid on the farm.You can google to see how low they were to the ground.
Mary the mule would take us up and down paths and back to barn.
Good memories…
when we were kids, we use to use a pitch fork to hang on to and stand up in the middle of the hay wagon while going to the hay field! we thought we were hot stuff!
I remember the Grit. Long time ago.
Good video Jim, that high strength rope is great stuff. It has actually replaced steel cable on our job to pull conveyer belt, we like it a lot. I wonder how good a few hundred feet of it and a good snatch block would work attached to a horse to pull logs.
Yes, would be interesting to see how it works
I natis bill tries to help by leaning in when you put on his collar & his bridal
Jim, that is called a soft shackle. I use a mini version with my camping equipment.
I thought of that too when Jim showed it. I use soft shackles when hammock camping.
Another interesting video thanks for sharing. Keep him straight Brenda... LOL ..
I’ll try😉
Whittier seems in good spirits....👍👍👍
Yes she’s doing well
hi jim and brenda. brenda may i say you look good in pigtales and that hat.a real farm girl. jim this video was a good one. wish i was there to have hands on hitching up bill . jim with you as my teacher, you never know i might get it done. god bless , hi to everyone .. jim dartmouth, nova scotia, canada.
Thanks Jim
I had a "willing" team once. One was willing to work and the other was willing to let him!
I wish you lived close to me I would love to learn to drive from you.
Hi Brenda and Jim. Love your show and the seasonal changes that require many different tasks be performed with your beautiful horses.
When you are grooming the horses, I often wonder why you don't wear a facial mask. At times there's a huge amount of dust and hair obviously being removed from their coats. After the horses have been laying, rolling in dirt, manure etc I don't think I would like to be regularly breathing in whatever is in the air.
Keep on with the great videos and please keep the 'tutorials' on horse care, management etc coming.
p,s, sorry to hear that Whitey lost her kittens. Wonder what might have resulted in them all dying at about the same time?
When using a sweat pad, do you size up 1 or 2 inches for collars? So if our horse takes a 22inch collar... using a sweat pad would size her up to a 24 inch? or a 23?
wonder if a metal detector would help you find them in the mud or yard?
If given a choice and money was is not of concern what breed would you recommend for beginners?
Why was Bill's checkline so short and not laying flatter?
Good tutorial🙌🏼 Good questions Brenda. 🙌🏼 How long are the shaves? 🤠🐴🇨🇦
I don’t know, varies for every horse
So Brenda was "turf surfing" in this video. In few weeks Jim will have that roller fitting out the corn field.....then you can go "log rolling".
I would like to ask why you chose to set your stall up the way they are? There has to be a good reason, efficient . Perhaps someone can direct me to the video that might talk about? I'm very new to this channel.
I think we talk about it in this video:
How do the horses like their NEW BARN?!?!?! // Renovating a Draft Horse Barn with Standing Stalls
ruclips.net/video/cmzvSTIxnHA/видео.html
Can you hook up a disc with a single horse?
I get a kick out of how the other horses watch when you are harnissing one, I think they hope they are going also.
Could be!
👍💪👍💪😁🙂Cool
Farm field surfing LOL
Right!
Jim, I sold Grit Newspaper as well ... 1962 +/- ......
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