Draft Horse Logging - Managing Woods in Wisconsin (Legacy Logging)

Jason Julian of Legacy Logging in Wisconsin shows and tells much information about draft horse logging.
Jason started his Logging Logging Business after much experience in his own woods and to fill in winter months to supplement his farm work. He often works on a site for 3-4 months of the winter, camping out with his horses. He is now booked out two years and can be selective about the jobs he accepts making sure they fit his schedule, team and approach.
This video shows Jason working to thin the woods around the perimeter of a farm's woodlands to create an oak savannah in which to graze cattle during hot summer days. This is called silvopasture - the practice of combining forestry and grazing for domesticated animals in a mutually beneficial way.
Jason's plan is to selectively log trees to get to about 20 trees per acre. This lets in enough light to allow grass and clove to establish.
Jason is asked to give advice to novices thinking about horse logging:
Horses are powerful and DANGEROUS! The most important thing you need is to be "rock solid" with your team. Logging is exponentially more dangerous than field work as the dangers are all around, including above your head. Use the slowest, calmest horse you have. Your best broke horse. Start with skidding little wood and work up.
Take some time to watch some experience horse loggers in person such as Tim Carroll of Cedar River Horse Logging or Taylor Johnson of Springbrook, WI.
Jason end the video choosing felling an old oak step-by-step.
Horse Logging Equipment:
Logging Arch
Saws
Truck and trailer
Hydraulic Log Corder
Log chain with grab hook and slip hook
Singletree
SLOW, CALM well broke horses with whom you have a rock solid
relationship.

[@GlobalistJuice]

This is one smart man, the way he goes through stuff in his mind with common sense, reasoning & logic, puts himself on a path for good decision making - just the way God intended!👍

[@MartinhoRamos1990]

Godbless this guy and his trusty horses. This was beautiful to watch

[@stephaniebird6143]

I love this stuff! The partnership between man and beast is Awesome!

[@DrJohn493]

Enjoyable video! My wife has a Friesian and two Fell ponies & I have a portable sawmill. She won’t let me use any of them pull even a stick of firewood out of our woods😞

[@hughwhaley3179]

My Dad used horses to log our Bush back in the day and I get it done now by professional loggers. We have some cut for lumber and the rest we cut for fire wood. We cut 25to 30 cords a year. Thanks for sharing love the horse and being in the Bush 🐎 👍🏾

[@RobertFay]

Wonderful lessons for us all. Thank you. ||| I and a high school friend, back home to Northern New Hampshire from two tours of combat in Vietnam logged with a big Morgan/Belgian(?) cross. *Brownie was a wonderful horse.* Landowners liked that we prettied up their woods and made nice walking trails for them while they got profit from their acreage without big logging skidders cutting ugly roads into their forests. ||| Nice grades for land owners to walk got more and more work for us. ||| The horse’s owner, Jay, would fell the timber up in the woodlots and loop the reins over whichever side of Brownie's hames would match my access side in the yard, and sent him on his way a quarter mile or so downhill to the yard. He would arrive and wait for me to lead him in “climbing” the pile to place the log(s) and unhook him. Then I would re-curl the reins over one side of his hames and send him on his way back to Jay. My job was to buck the logs to saw lengths with my big Stihl running a 48in bar. ||| One day, I was surprised to feel Brownie was breathing on my neck, “speaking” a soft snort. This was very strange. If I was not ready for him, he always waited for me to take his halter in hand to guide him “climbing” the pile, after I broke lose the log(s) then frozen to the icy yard if need be, so he could gentle the pull. ||| I looked up and he had stepped up into the pile of logs intentionally placing and bracing his right-side front knee to prevent a log from shifting lose and probably bringing the pile down onto me. *He knew.* ||| I finished my cut, carefully peavey-ed the log away from his leg, and brought him “up” to land his load were it needed to be placed. After giving him my own “snort” of thank-you, I then sent him off again. All day long in deep winter we worked, back and forth, hardly any commands of anything other than the occasional quiet “woah”, “haw”, “gee”, “back”, “up”, and *“chich-chich, off to Jay you go”.* ||| Good horse, *yup.* Brownie never got stuck in the woods on a stump or rock. True, we picked and logged out a good trail for him, but he was wise and remembered how to get himself unstuck, too. He remembered how we had halter-pulled or pushed on his sides and guided him to get free in the past (“side-haw up, or side-gee up”). It all worked just wonderful. ||| But you are right… *careful, careful in the woods;* make sure you have your feet in the right place when you drop the chain ring onto his singletree hook, because the clink sound that ring makes hitting the hook will instantly turn into a quick lurch and strong pull to break free the logs so he can easily get on his way. *Gosh, Brownie so very much did like to pull.* [the first horse in this video is just learning, but handles very well and by the end of the winter should be able to do this all alone if the trail way is cut out clearly enough kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4nboKR7edlkp5o ]

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[@markschilleman8987]

I am an arborist myself, appreciate your knowledge. Thx.

[@pamtnman1515]

some really nice clear oak logs harvested carefully with minimal disturbance to the land. Thank you for sharing

[@garryherron9081]

Naver turen your back on a falling tree,a liem will hit you or tree top.Look up all the time,When your cuting a tree down.Cut around your tree,so it won,t Barber chair on you.

[@jimsteele7108]

Very cool...

[@gailgary4882]

Why do you guys always gotta cut down all the trees there’s three of you, KZbinrs, that all you do is cut down the trees, so the world will flood

[@glenngordon9733]

Jason, stick to horses but put away the chainsaw. Painful to watch....