Thanks for the reply - Fortunately, CPL is something that's kept away from us! Increase, decrease, or stable numbers- I have no idea. I'd suggest it may be bad where owners let horses go without much hoof maintenance at all, and without realising they may have feather mites as well, perhaps, and they can go rife without much resistance. That annoys the horses, and things get worse, maybe without the owners being aware of it. Right at this moment we don't have feather mites on the property, thank goodness - we seem to be rid of them for now at least.

We have a very active Facebook page - Duneske Clydesdales ! Yes, we work and show just about all of them. Thanks for your interest.

thanks! What does your Dad do nowadays?

@@ianstewart-koster9982 passed in 99. We restored a farm wagon in the 70’s it’s in the Buffalo Bill Ranch museum in North Platte, Nebraska now.

Thanks, that makes sense - although our mix of 80% lighting kerosene + 20% unleaded petrol, made for very quiet smooth running.

What R they pulling.? A barn.? 😅

Thank YOU for the compliment! :)

Thanks, Margaret. We did this video nearly 6 years ago, for the potential buyers to see how Monte behaved and reacted, and they bought him just after that. They lived about 1450 km south of us, so this KZbin video was an easy way to convey Monte's laid-back attitude to everything he was up against. He was/is a great useful horse!

HI Matt, I'm sorry I didn't see this request sooner - sure you're most welcome to! Thanks for asking!

@@ianstewart-koster9982 Thanks Ian..I've fiinished the original video now...but will keep this in mind for a future video...Dad tells a bunch of stories of the old days farming with the horses like you've shown...so would be helpful to have some shots like this if that is ok. Thank you!

@@MatthewPolack I watched it - it's tremendous! I really enjoyed the story and interviews, and result. (and that looks like a bit of Pommy footage you used of a pair of horses ploughing!)

@@ianstewart-koster9982 Thanks Ian...I think it might have been someone in NZ..I managed to get permission to use the shot.. It wasn't the ideal footage . Yours was I think more typical of what they were actually doing! Do you still have the horse teams?

Thank you! :)

Thanks! Sorry the resolution isn't great. Whne we filmed it, out internet upload capacity, and standard of camera, were not as good as these days.

+Clarkehighwheeler Thanks, Clarke - hope it helps a few people appreciate an often unrealised aspect of the mechanisation of the industry so long ago. It wasn't all hammer and chisel and nostalgic spokeshave stuff! ;)

+Ian Stewart-Koster Thank you Ian , great effort .

+MrAffolder Thanks, yes, the noise was a bit of a distraction in the video. It wasn;t so bad in real life - I think the camera microphone was just a bit more sensitive to it. The idea of throating the spoke it to give it somewhere to flex, rather than extend the stresses into the hub, or onto the tangs. When a wheel goes from stopped, to moving, there is inertia, or resistance to movement, just before it gives, and moves. The slight narrowness of the spoke just out from the hub allows a minute bit of flex there, to ease the stresses all round. (That's my explanation & take on it, anyhow!) Glad you enjoyed it! P.S. There will be a 'part 2' that I'll upload in a couple of days, as the computer docked the last 5 minutes of wheel tyring from the video clip.

Thanks for the compliments. I think that was an Excalibur brush, size 0 or double 0 from Mack brushes in USA for the work on the body ribs. I may have used an old Roymac or Rekab brush (or an alligator) for the rest - not sure offhand, but I find the excaliburs are good for short lines that change direction in a small space.

Thank you for the information,I t looks as though it holds a fair bit of paint ,might have to get one and try it and see what i can/can't do lol cheers .