Amish 12 Horse Hitch Pulling a 4 Bottom Plow

[@Ohsnapski]

Just imagine how many generations farmed this very land...this goes to show that with correct farming practices you can keep producing not only amazing crops, but amazing pitch black dark rich soil perfect for those crops

[@ellenvirgillo6716]

Beautiful horses.That rich soil is every farmer's dream.By the time I was born my grandpa was using a tractor,but I do know he had used horses.A pleasure to watch this video.Thank you.

[@MormonAll]

Beautiful! I so respect our Amish Brothers and Sisters. We enjoy our horses and wish all men could have the knowledge these men posess. The future will need it. Thank you to all for making this possible.

[@batemanterry]

This is awesome!! Reminds of when I was a boy growing up on a farm in the Great Smokey Mountains! My dad had a big Belgian and he was so gentle and so stout!! When you rode him it was like sitting on a Love Seat, he was so big and broad! LOL!!! Thank you for taking the time to post this video. I have great respect for the Amish folk and if a country was to ever explode a EMP above our nation and cause the loss of electricity, it would be the Amish that would help feed folks as they still use horse and man power! May GOD bless you always and may GOD bless all who watch your video!

[@Bernie5172]

I DID THE SAME WITH MY DAD AND HIS 2 CLYDESDALES

[@uhitskyle]

U know tractors from the 60s have zero computers on them....

[@ph11p3540]

Just think. It was horses like this that first pulled the HMS Titanic anchors to the dry dock. That anchor was over 40 tons.

[@ghester07]

I was born in 1962, and I remember my grandfather still used mules. He bought a tractor when I was about 4 or 5, but I still remember those mules! Bigdaddy told me over and over to stay away from the back of the mules to avoid getting kicked. He must have been one of the last farmers in our area to use mules. This was about an hour east of Atlanta.

[@TheeAmericanDream]

Thank you for your comment!

[@erikferry6500]

A deeper and wider definition of 'efficiency' going forward will favor an expansion of animal-powered agriculture. Thanks to you Amish for keeping critical skill-sets alive to help the rest of us when this is more broadly-recognized.

[@TheeAmericanDream]

Erik Ferry I admire the Amish for their talents handling horses.

[@maryriley6163]

Very interesting. Something most of us never ever get to see in person so I'm glad this was posted. Thanks.

[@stanbarlog7739]

12 horses, 4 ploughshares. That's 3 horses per plough. Plus the superstructure. They hardly felt it, I bet. Beautiful animals. I totally respect the Amish way of life.

[@susiecox8413]

These animals are amazing and so strong! The Amish work hard and do a great job! Much respect for them.

[@Barabbas7798]

And most of all they love the LORD

[@lesleyfry29]

Check the kill pens and see the half dead horses they abuse and send straight from field to slaughter.

[@dededenver9560]

Wow, the driver has his hands full! Glad someone is keeping these amazing skills alive. Those horses are gorgeous, and look at that beautiful soil!

[@nancypowers1523]

Loved this, especially how beautiful, well-cared for, well-trained draft horses cooperate with humans getting good work done!

[@sylviastreet413]

What beautiful, strong, well trained horses! God has Greatly blessed whoever owns them!

[@buffalogal9135]

Magnificient just watching the beautiful horses - so well trained.

[@TheeAmericanDream]

The Amish still farm with horses in our area.

[@jaredj306]

Yes same in missouri

[@henryofskalitz2228]

It's amazing that many horses are equivalent to my farmall 450 with 2 sets of wheel weights and one set of front weights at pulling.

[@fleondodgen]

The horses say; “I loved that patch of grass. They always ruin it at this time.” Other horse; “ Yep !”

[@bigdave5707]

I grew up in Aurora, Illinois and the soil there is as black and rich as it is in this video. You can grow anything in it!

[@hinglemccringleberry8805]

So quiet too. No deafening loud diesel engine, just the gentle clanking of chains.

[@joshuah5655]

Just don't say that in Mississippi 🤣

[@Prutsprogrammeur]

A Belgian horselover wanted to introduce them again in (believe it or not) Belgium. He found them with the Amish in the US. Belgian Draft Horses we have enough, but these are Flemish Horses.

[@georgewhite7694]

I wish to be there. I grow up in time when world was still using horses power. That was really good time

[@DCM8828]

It is good to see that the old ways are still known. We just might have to go back to them someday.

[@PostcardsOfLife]

That's an amazing team of horses and a huge plough. You may like to see this two horse team from England.

[@kylepope6805]

AMAZING looking soil! These guys take a $10,000 acre and turn it into a $40,000 acre in short periods of time

[@walterpalmer2749]

There should be monuments honoring the horse, a noble breed. The horse went unchallenged for millenia as the world's fastest form of land transport before the internal combustion engine. In conquests as well as the preferred beasts of burden, man's history would have been far different without the horse.

[@ratherbwithhorses]

Great statement. We do owe our horses relevance , and inclusion in our lives .

[@TheeAmericanDream]

I agree. These horses can get a lot of work done in a day. You might enjoy my new DVD available on Ebay. The Horse Progress Days DVD is only $19.95 with free shipping.

[@canvids1]

I bet if you had a 12 horse power tractor it wouldn''t pull that plow.

[@jaredj306]

A horse has about 15 horse power

[@ryanborghini2975]

That's a lot of horse and power

[@robertmatthews6356]

man this sure brings back when I was a boy plowing this same way in Hillardson N.C..In fact I was plowing when I had to hold the plow with the bar between the plow handles.. Now I see my Daddy showing me how to hold the mules raines around my neck.

[@jaredj631]

That soil is beautiful that are doing something right.

[@TheeAmericanDream]

Good black Illinois dirt.

[@LandersWorkshop]

Black soil is the most fertile I heard. I worked the trucks up in the Dakotas, had some good black soil there too!

[@MissTrixie29]

Jared Jeanotte It looks that way because the soil hasn't been stripped away to have houses placed on top.

[@JoseLeon-nc4wz]

good bless this hard working people!!

[@royhoco5748]

that soil was most likely deposited by glaciers during the ice age.

[@claireusilton4066]

Wow. I thought it would only take 8 horses. Looked like hard work!

[@royhoco5748]

I wonder how long it takes to harness and hitch 12 horses to get ready to plow.

[@CentralVirginian1]

So quiet and peaceful - tractors are noisy and the exhaust is poison to breathe.

[@georgeschwartz6270]

Pretty awesome to see 12 horses work together. That must take some work to set them all up. I love the work horses and would love to see them working.

[@starskyw5417]

That's impressive! I've plowed with 4abreast some and struggled to keep a straight furrow. Jealous of your skills👍

[@TheeAmericanDream]

Wasn't me driving. I'm just the video guy!

[@jeremyebers8886]

That's a thing of beauty... there's a big Amish community where I live but they all drive tractors down the shoulder of the hwy to Walmart

[@ahanakhtar8301]

This is the organic , this is the best efforts for our healthy world . I love your good job .

[@nitetrane98]

I've always wondered what pulls the trailer that brings these big guys to the shows.

[@queenmab1999]

awesome!!! but I have to ask...seems like too many horses to pull the plow, i mean yes its a big plow, but they are some very strong horses

[@imonthewinningside8281]

Probably could do with a couple less - but 4 horses for a single plow is standard, so 12 would enable them to keep going all day with a 3 bottom.

[@tbonethe4th]

do you think a three or four bottom plough is more stable than a one bottom plough? wonderful Video, i like that way of "not polluting the Environment" greets from germany

[@hotrodparker]

So fantastic to watch these beautiful beasts show the world that, if it weren't for oil and it's refinement, they'd still be in charge. Every time I see these animals yank something around like they're taking candy from a baby, I just wanna shout! So Cool!!!

[@2Puppyboys]

Well done the horses are beautiful and worked together

[@sanniepstein4835]

An old Quaker saying is "Pick the flowers of pleasure along the paths of duty". It appears that is the Amish philosophy.

[@afnDavid]

The Amish are the people and society who will survive the current COVID non-sense with little to no hardships at all. They have the skills, mindset, and Godly community that will see them through the hardships, trials, and tribulations..

[@Ezra91020]

Beautiful working animals. Very efficient and effective.

[@RJ1999x]

Very inefficient

[@ArthurBaker]

Love watching this several times. Thanks

[@eldorajohnson1150]

beautiful land, beautiful horses. beautiful plow. dad and grandfathers farmers

[@theien5929]

My family farmed with horses in the 1930's and 1940's. What is not shown here is how dangerous it can be to be following near the horses as those young boys. were, and get bumped or trampled. I had a friend who was injured for life while backing a team onto the hitch, got kicked in the leg by one of the team and broke his femur. A severe limp remained for the rest of his life.

[@TheeAmericanDream]

Yes agreed that it has its dangerous parts of it all, but they still do it to this day!

[@JamesYoung61]

Great video, I have never heard of a 12 horse team, in days gone by they hooked up every man and animals to gun trains and monuments masonry but that isn't like a sophisticated ploughing team as you have.

[@TheBlueRoan316]

I was wondering how they got the hitch and plow turned at the end of each pass ... and then you showed that too. Great video and some awesome horses. Any idea how long it takes the Amish to train a hitch like this?

[@TheeAmericanDream]

Angela Hernandez It takes several years to get them to work together.

[@occamsrazor7939]

What kind of horses are those?

[@13bravoredleg18]

My Belgian named Dolly pulls logs out of the woods!

[@RiskySpider]

I would say to the comment about the cars in the background...they probably belong to the spectators that are not Amish.

[@lindamclennan8645]

A number of the horses looked underweight.Is that a camera angle or do the Amish take good care of their horses?

[@shandillashenamere7856]

That's 12 horses! Wouldn't it be more efficient to have 6 pairs pulling 1 plow each vs 12 pulling 4?

[@ellismidkiff6117]

Why is there always a person walking in the furrow behind them what are they doing or looking for

[@occamsrazor7939]

Those horses are so beautiful.❤️

[@olddave4833]

beautiful black soil. great hitch but if the horses were hooked in teams of two and pulling a walking plow, they would be pulling six bottoms, same man power as there is about eight guys walking along.

[@comesahorseman]

Serious tillage! I grew up on a small farm in New Hampshire, where we grew most of our own food. This video brings a smile to my face. Thanks!! :)

[@jamesadkins9023]

If each "observer" had a one horse plow hitched to each horse, you could get more plowed.

[@mutlucankartal9524]

Only a 90-100 HP tractor can work within this equipment. Which means a horse has more than a horsepower.

[@lillieannensorensen6512]

God! Look at that topsoil! Where is this again?

[@fredgrove4220]

That took a lot of training to get 12 horses to pull in hand like that.

[@waltercook3197]

So enjoyable to watch and see great work guys

[@toddepperson7465]

Notice how black the soil is. Look at the difference in that soil and soil in corporate farm soil. Big difference. So many Americans would pass out if they did a tenth of the work Amish did.

[@simonbaker8776]

Amish, modern people could learn a thing or two off these guys, amazing!!!!

[@thejim3501]

I have no knowledge of such things, but looks like 12 horses is an overkill.

[@TheeAmericanDream]

I don't know what their names are.

[@Bernie5172]

I LOVED FOLLOWING ALONG IN THE FURROW AFTER MY DAD AND DRAFT HORSE PLOWING THE FIELDS

[@davidwengerd427]

Same here

[@edwardjonez6615]

Beautiful black earth. As close to no till as you can get. Thanks for sharing.

[@nonickname9930]

Mr. Bontrager, them slats attached to the left hoss's bridle to his neighbor's collar? Are they called bridle bars? I retired from railroad, and many terms were based on old timey teamster vocab. A bunch of em have fallen out of use because nobody's left who knows what they meann.

[@TheeAmericanDream]

They are called spreader bars.

[@outdoordoug8588]

Look how good that dirt looks

[@matnaylor8939]

How many horses do you need ? One Clydesdale will do ?.

[@meramec]

They're pulling in clay rich soil that has a lot of resistance, the least you could have is 8 to pull effectively. Plus a Belgian can out pull a Clydesdale any day.

[@jerrywalker744]

Love to watch these boys work! !

[@TheeAmericanDream]

These are Belgium horses.

[@kimalbrecht3424]

YES THESE ARE BELGIAN HORSES. BUT I HAVE RECENTLY LEARNED THAT BELGIAN HORSES, CAN BE BLACK. GO FIGURE. SAW THE PICS ON LINE, AND VERIFIED FROM A BELGIAN BREEDER.

[@andrewkundratic3318]

Is that vehicle 12 horse power?

[@Livoirienyvoitrien]

Which breed of horses is that?

[@19661650]

Oliver plow pulls very nice, Best plows ever!

[@georgemck5709]

I have a 6 bottom plow that cuts 4 ft wide and seeds at the same time .It is horse drawn It was brought to North America by the Mennonites

[@oldtimeway1]

George McK Huh?

[@GotSnowedIn]

I don't know, hence why I am asking... but is 12 Belgian horses really necessary for this type of plow or was this more of a showing-off kind of thing?

[@TheeAmericanDream]

The soil in Illinois is very black and clay like so it pulls pretty hard. They could have done it with 8 but it would be hard on the horses.

[@GotSnowedIn]

Interesting, I did not realize that. Thanks for the reply.

[@beekeeper53NC]

Looked like they were not plowing very deep. Takes a 90 to 100 hp tractor to pull 4 bottoms well.

[@missjennifer5593]

I have a problem with check rains on plow horses.

[@nitetrane98]

Get over it.

[@TheeAmericanDream]

Thanks for subscribing to my channel. I have lots of horse farming videos on KZbin.

[@gentlegiants1974]

A spectacle to see, but the practicalities don't compute. No horse farmer I know has 12 horses, and 6 flunkies to walk alongside, just to pull a 4 bottom plow. Drop 2 bottoms and you can drop the horses by more than half which one farmer can muster fairly readily, and one man can do the work. I suppose if several neighbouring farmers wanted to pool horses just to low this way it would work. I have horses and use them, but this scale is pretty unrealistic. Seems like more of a pissing contest as to who can have the biggest hitch. So my 2 furrow plow takes twice as long to plow the same acres, but the overhead is half in terms of HP, harness, manpower, feed, etc.

[@multi-hobbyist1568]

About 45 minutes from where I live there, is a large Amish community and, they use tractors. However, they use steel wheels, which I have been told is to discourage them from using it for transportation. They use horse and buggy and, dress as the Amish do though. They even speak another language. Dutch I believe but, Im not sure. They seem legit. I just wonder why the horses. They arent any cheaper and it seems to require many men to do what a single man could do with a tractor.

[@Rollie887]

very cool interesting video keep up the lost art of horseman ship Rollie

[@tomascerda3093]

En que país es esta tradicional forma de labrar la tierra ???

[@carlosayala6754]

Woooww this's very impress, I would like to work the land just like Amish

[@nicpey]

amish do not like to be on camera, i'm surprised you got this video. I enjoyed watching tho!

[@viianapoa7448]

Oh my god! If we can also have this here in the Philippines....farming is no more a pain to our elders' backs.

[@Rebecca-1111]

where is the tales? how are thet supposed to swat flies?

[@wayneburnside7819]

I don’t know anything about horsepower like that, but I was surprised it took 12 Belgians to pull that plow.

[@TheeAmericanDream]

Bigger the plow the more horses it takes!

[@wayneburnside7819]

@@TheeAmericanDream BTW, Michael, I’m sure you know Belleville PA. I was born there. My dad’s family owned a farm there that he always rented out to an Amish family. Belleville is a wonderful place that’s fallen on hard times.

[@ragaasuran7701]

I like very much Amish people and their culture .

[@SigmaWolf-in2mr]

Woah! look at that soil, awesome. Great way of life.. Liked and subbed. Keep up the videos.

[@lourdesmary6505]

I enterily like Amish people , and their hard work , following the treadtion ways and specially their religion about christ and bible , secondly i liked their dances and they are looking most beautiful , they are children of god , let god bless them more , and they should spread throughout the world , from lourdes mary , bangalore , south india.

[@sylvesterstalone1859]

Almost everyone ignores this jubilee

[@NowDiscerned]

Thank you for posting, very interesting!

[@Marzy5821]

Around what year did ploughing finish Matthew?

[@andrzejkolowski39]

Tak wygląda współczesny traktor Amiszów .Ideologia , według której żyją jest równie współczesna .Na ideologiczne głupoty nic nie mozna poradzić ,tylko obserwować i wyciągać wnioski ,także te dotyczące ludzkiego rozumu .Obok geniuszy ludzkich zyje także ludzka dzicz ,ale za dzicz uważa właśnie żyjących obok geniuszy .Miejmy nadzieję ,że dziczy będzie ubywać a geniuszy przybywać .

[@donniegray553]

impressive. LOT of horse POWER.

[@erwinmonti5066]

THATS HOW YOU PUT TOGETHER A V12. JUST LIKE IN MY MERCEDES...

[@optimusprime4643]

do you have oxes more than 2 doing the ploughing etc