Selective Logging Demonstration

Mike Jordan hooks to a log with his team of American Belgians on a Pioneer logging arch, hooking with a long chain to get it started and then hooking shorter to get lift for the longer pull. At his farm in Belington, W.V., during the 2023 American Brabant Rendezvous.

[@countrygirl23]

I truly enjoy Rural Heritage videos! Thank you for sharing!

[@deborahpatton861]

Me too!!

[@K9COP282]

It was a real treat to have attended the ABA fall rendezvous on Mike’s farm!! Everyone there was very welcoming!! I look forward to attending another ABA event!

[@greenman4508]

I remember, sitting around a table with farm hands and manager, fifteen plus years ago. The comments were generally that working with horses to farm and log “wasn’t real”. It was some privileged lifestyle to grow five dollar tomatoes for a farm stand. I wasn’t right about many things, so I remember well when I was. Oh, they are realer than anything man has made. Beyond the philosophical/spiritual aspects of “real “… now diesel is three times as expensive, parts are not available, shipping is iffy at best, no one can hire employees to fix things, and “green “ corporate statutes present ever increasing problems for the working people. Suddenly it may seem, horses can help grow their own fuel, they self reproduce, a carpenter or mechanic of the lowest skill set can repair any equipment. They are silent so they don’t trigger informant neighbors. They are better to work with then 96.35 percent of modern humans. They are not only realer then the dollar, but realer than the Korean tractor companies pretending to be American.

[@greenman4508]

@@floatpool8307 the saying that came to define a civilization

[@roberthigginbotham114]

That’s how Logan should be done. My horses, mules, and oxen. Not by bulldozers and skaters, and so on.