Using Draft Horses on a Homemade Bale Mover

[@ErnieHatmaker]

Watching them wait patiently for harnessing, responding to hand gestures...what great teammates you have!

[@trinitydairy]

Thanks!

[@biddydibdab9180]

What I love about your horses is they are so calm and assured. This comes from having consistent and kind treatment from you.

[@trinitydairy]

In one of our videos, Leonard talks about when he got Stub and Stoney. They were wild enough that even the Amish didn't want them. After being with Leonard, Stoney was everyone's horse to learn how to ride on.

[@biddydibdab9180]

@@trinitydairy I’d like to watch that video! A true feather in Leonard’s cap.

[@uteschneider3349]

​@@trinitydairy Schade. Bei diesem Video sind keine Untertitel eingestellt.

[@hoppytrailsrabbitry3504]

Your horses behave amazingly. The fact that all you had to do was pat the one at the beginning and it just lined up is incredible

[@prestonkerr4421]

I’m not sure why but the videos of these horses working is so interesting, different then most modern techniques. Good job on the video

[@trinitydairy]

Thank you for watching!

[@matthewnasci2646]

What's not to like about this video? Looks like fun. The epitome of the term work smart not hard. Beautiful horses. Would love to do that someday. Your children are truly privileged to grow up around uncommon but great activities. Thank you for sharing and for feeding our country.

[@trinitydairy]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@baldybaldwin2825]

Grew up in the northeast, had a Percheron team we used all winter to spread manure, skid logs off mountain tops, haul loads in muddy fields where wheel tractors couldn’t go This brought many memories driving a team, an enjoyment most will never know.

[@trinitydairy]

So glad you enjoyed it!

[@canvids1]

I just happen to find your video. Sure brings back memories of when I was just a lad growing up back in the late 40's Where my Grandad worked and I spent lots of time there. Your horses are so gentle and very smart, Thanks for the great video.

[@trinitydairy]

Glad you found us. Thanks for watching!

[@mattsteitzer1457]

Brilliant and what a great way to teach the kids about life. They can't learn that in school. Thanks for sharing

[@trinitydairy]

Thanks for watching. We couldn't agree more!

[@bigdigger9404]

This video just poped up so i watched it and it brought back memories of when I was on the farm.

[@trinitydairy]

Thanks for watching!

[@baldybaldwin2825]

Been a long time since I’ve heard the term “jag of wood, or hay” thanks for the memories!

[@andylieffring3987]

I like the bale mover...it gets the job done. I don’t know much at all about horses but they just seem like well trained content animals happy to do their job. Thanks

[@karencary3312]

So beautiful. They are very well trained. They are majestic. I just love to watch them work.

[@georgebarnessr5472]

Great video. I never worked with horses but always loved to watch them pull. A very well matched team.

[@donaldwallace7934]

I just recently became a subscriber. I really enjoy these videos of the horses, cows etc. My Dad grew up using horses on my Grandpas farm. He was not overly fond of using horses, and preferred tractor power instead. He didn't talk much about that time as a kid, but he related one story where he would be out using a horse drawn cultivator, and when lunch time came, he said he could stop the horses in the field on a row, and they would be waiting for him when he returned, and hadn't moved an inch. I wish he had told me more about that time in his life. He's been gone for awhile now.

[@trinitydairy]

I've heard stories that sound just like that. Thank you so much for watching.

[@philluk9639]

New subscriber. Love the channel. Excellent videos. Keep them coming

[@trinitydairy]

Thank you for watching!

[@paultighe3735]

Great video, enjoyed it keep them coming 👍

[@harleyweyer2580]

Nice team!! Works good!

[@andrewpeterson5977]

Good video could you do a video sometime about all the things your father in law has for the horses to pull. Like carts and trailers stuff like that. That would be a really neat video about all the old time stuff.

[@trinitydairy]

Good idea!

[@roxannerolls2245]

What a nice video! That Bale mover looks like something that my grandfather would have made when he lived on a farm in Illinois. He was born in 1895 and lived through the depression and he was always tinkering with things. Draft horses and steam locomotives. I was clearly born in the wrong place in the wrong era

[@trinitydairy]

Oh how neat! We kinda feel like we missed the dairy farm/draft horse era too.

[@robertlord4055]

Logged with a Belgian and a Percheron. They skidded to the yard and back with no one leading them. Gentle giants. I used them single twitching unless I was cutting big pine or hardwood. Then I would team them. Getting ready to log my own property and will be using a horse. Much nicer cut than with a skidder or forwarder. Nice video.

[@phillipcleaver7063]

I watched this to see how to pick up a bale behind something without hydraulics , .................but your horses stole the show ! at backing up an articulated " trailer " combination , on command , without mirrors , & they,re animals , ( limited vocabulary grasp ! ) what a marvellous pair of animals . More sense than some humans I could mention . May they live long , & I salute them .

[@trinitydairy]

Very glad you enjoyed it!

[@herbhouston5378]

Great video! Fascinating piece of engineering...

[@mervjb809]

Nice horses. Well trained!!

[@briandufty5081]

Don't kick...

[@briandufty5081]

Love you,

[@leonhill3430]

Awesome 👍 I grew up learning to use horses

[@indicasmama]

Aren't these animals amazing? Thank you for giving them a life & a job they were bred to do. Might be much slower getting the job done but so much nicer.

[@trinitydairy]

They are! Of course to Alan, who grew up with them it's nothing special, but I absolutely love watching them!

[@RuthJones-iz1ve]

Thank you for sharing. Great video, love your farming life.👍👍👍

[@trinitydairy]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@deetngator1624]

Thanks for sharing your experience. Great teamwork

[@garybridger6707]

A few miles north we have a Amish community. They have been here for around 20 yrs. Some of them have 2 wheel carts with bale spears on them. I assume they have springs on them to tilt the bale to get clearance. Nice video!!

[@thomashostetter7052]

Good to see a well broke team of horses.

[@helentaylor1222]

Lovely film thanks for showing us

[@lindadanielson7849]

May God bless you for all you do.

[@trinitydairy]

Thank you for the kind words. God bless!

[@ryangrider9607]

That’s a very cool two horsepower bale mover!

[@kswaynes7569]

Great video Jen! Your father-in-law sure has put some time in whit that team, they work well together and listen well. It's always more fun at Grandma and Grandpa's, at least I hope it is for my Grandchildren! Thank you for sharing your family and life with us.

[@trinitydairy]

Thanks for watching! Oh yes the kids would definitely move in over there.

[@kswaynes7569]

Trinity Dairy They would miss Mom! God Bless.

[@ryangrider9607]

Idea for an interesting (at least for me, and I think others??) video. Please have your father in law explain how the harness works. As I understand it the tongue is basically for guidance and the Haines (??) is where the weight is pulled from. Explain how the weight is distributed across the harness and how to steer the horses. Also perhaps a breakdown on what it takes, and how long, to train a team to really work together. He seems like a very knowledgeable fellow to explain all this, as that team works together very good! Maybe an equipment tour to show off and explain the various horse powered pieces he uses?? Anyhow, these horse videos are awesome!

[@WorkingHorsesWithJim]

That’s a nice bale mover, I can tell that’s not the first time you’ve done that.

[@woodsgremlin9995]

When we had more cows and horses we would roll out 3 to 4 hundred bales a year. Rolling out hay and straw is what it works best for.

[@kjcsomerville]

Nice video, regards from the UK, keep posting !!!

[@trinitydairy]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@kellyellingson2335]

That is a very nice team. Done a lot of work to get where there at. :)

[@highlifeme]

Great video as always!! Great content Jennifer! Uncle we need to upgrade you to an electric winch! Getting kinda old for all that turning!! 🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣😂😂

[@user-nr9dx1gs5w]

Great Team. Great video!

[@pocketchange1951]

👍👌🇨🇦❤, nice, tell him to hurry up and get us hitched up, I am tired of standing around, I wanna pull something🤔😉🤣

[@matthewjohnson3910]

Great video thanks for sharing 👍

[@raynonabohrer5624]

Love this! Beautiful horses.

[@BRPFan]

Pretty cool!

[@johnallford7053]

Great video. Yep spring on its way with the mud 😀 all part of it

[@trinitydairy]

That's for sure. We did see a hint of green in the yard today.😃

[@larryr.johnson3048]

Gawd I love those work horses.

[@allanlavallee7171]

Now that is a well broke team driven by someone who knows what he is doing.

[@tjmcmurtrie5756]

Awsome video...I loved it.... god bless!!

[@lazygardens]

They are so focused ... they know they are going to go pull something.

[@hvlineman5227]

Just subbed number 1000.. Love the channel 👍🇺🇸

[@trinitydairy]

Thank you so much!!!

[@jjp1117]

He made cranking that bale up look easy I don’t care how old that dude is he can def one punch knock out anyone

[@trinitydairy]

Haha, yeah we've heard some stories about him doing that!

[@timpingel9607]

Neat to watch the horses work together. Good thing you don't have 100 cows to feed.

[@trinitydairy]

For my Father in law that wouldn't be a problem.

[@bigdog3138]

That's what you call 🐎 power 💪👍

[@joasspeicher9418]

They make those modern tractors everyday they just don't beat a good team of horses

[@tommynorton8973]

More work involved, but you just don't get the peaceful feeling with tractors as with a well trained team of horses, growing up on a farm with the animals created many a fond memorie for me

[@klauskarbaumer6302]

Your horses work and stand really well, so why does the off horse need stricter bitting, or did I not see that right?

[@trinitydairy]

As a former pulling horse, he can be really hard on the lines when there's a load.

[@klauskarbaumer6302]

@@trinitydairy Thank you, that explains i.

[@johnwitham7551]

For a pullung horse he minds great im sure it took some time usually there hear a click and they wanna start..i could see he had a more aggressive gate when they first started out.i didnt notuce the bit but a sungle wire would prob do the trick..nice video,nice roan

[@michaelcamacho2741]

Very nice. have a bless day

[@michaelstokley3041]

I thought music was just fine. I don't know who thought it wasn't, but I did not like that remark. It was a magnificent video and the music was perfect!

[@trinitydairy]

That was very kind of you to say, thank you!

[@joanneganon7157]

Quite an ingineouse set up👍. JO JO IN VT 💕😄

[@pwrmx24]

Is that blue piece of equipment intheback ground a log arch? Any videos with this?

[@trinitydairy]

Yes it is. Yes we did a video with it. Logging with Draft Horses.

[@pwrmx24]

@@trinitydairy thanks. We have a Logrite 36 and thought it might be similar. Thanks for the videos.

[@TravelAndFood664]

Nicely taken and even editing is good. Can stabilize the video by shooting using some tools like gimbal.

[@ronaldfeuerstein435]

Im so sorry... I missed this video from 4 months ago..i cant beleave i did that? Miss Jennifer? Was you a part time teamster on this? Great job. Horses are really well mattered.. Hope too see more.. Theres something specil with the sounds of horses...

[@ronaldfeuerstein435]

I really do feel bad missing this video from 4 months ago.. Sorry and tks for the ❤.... Heres one back.. ❤

[@trinitydairy]

No worries ☺️

[@sebastiana202]

What words do you use for "left" and "right" for those horses? They sound very similiar to the German ones.

[@trinitydairy]

Gee and Haw...not sure if that's the correct spelling.

[@sebastiana202]

@@trinitydairy thank you!

[@erikajegl2762]

Just started to watch your channel very nice but the music is very annoying don’t need music just watching the horses!!!

[@trinitydairy]

I didn't want the music either, but the wind noise was so bad that's all you could hear. I've since gotten a better camera and no longer put music over the horse videos.

[@vilsonpedroso3104]

Que lindos parabens belos animais brasil 🇧🇷

[@ericvogel1126]

It's nicer to watch and hear your fine team working without the annoying music.

[@trinitydairy]

The reason we put the music in was because of the bad wind noise and the Bale mover had a nails on a chalkboard squeak to it.

[@ericlakota6512]

Use a spring frome where your raighns are to help lift the low bar so its not pulling down on your horses. Of corse the bar dident look that heavy when u lifted it by one hand but still be nice if they dident half to have any weight to lift and only needed to pull and push back

[@trinitydairy]

That wouldn't make any difference because the tongue and the cart are all one piece.

[@deandenby8405]

Great video, however the music distracts from the quiet of hearing the horses.

[@trinitydairy]

I do agree, except the bale mover had a pretty high pitched squeak that was worse.

[@deandenby8405]

That I understand. Thank you

[@trinitydairy]

@@deandenby8405 Hoping to get video of them spreading manure, that one I can leave quiet.

[@SergelenGANBAT]

Old school

[@chrisbennett8538]

Can save a bunch of cash doing like that no gas or diesel required just oats hay and water

[@theallaroundguy2399]

You have to set the camera up to where people can see the horses pulling.

[@trinitydairy]

I agree. I just about need 2 cameras.

[@briandufty5081]

Love from Brian... Dufty.. Lot o now. Cool. Booom. They like the.

[@onceANexile]

Pretty quiet.

[@Aventuras_en_Moto_Hn]

Hard work!!!!!!!

[@briandufty5081]

I've got to du Bugger

[@mqm4098]

I have 2 Belgium Drafthorses but they look so much different then these ! I never saw the colour that mines are .. i have a ginger coloured with dark ginger manes and on my pfp a blond one with blonde manes . I never saw these colours of mine inrl before .. beautiful horses tho !

[@roxannerolls2245]

Love your videos but a little jumpy. Gimbal would help

[@trinitydairy]

Totally agree. When we started we were using our cell phones. We now have a GoPro and that made a huge difference!

[@tatianaavery137]

Belgains???

[@trinitydairy]

Yes!

[@crammy7]

These are belgian draft horses

[@trinitydairy]

Yes

[@patricesimard5990]

Ingénious not hard on the ground.

[@cstamper50]

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[@timmyotoolable]

Great horsemanship . but why are ye leaving hay out in open ,seems a lot of waste 🤔

[@trinitydairy]

There's actually very little waste, the bales are tight and they get a little crust on top that keeps the rest of the bale like new on the inside. A shed would be nice, but it's not a necessity.

[@timmyotoolable]

@@trinitydairy putting all that effort into making the bales and one or two layers of hay damage isn't productive to be honest.

[@trinitydairy]

@@timmyotoolable the cost of a shed and the added property taxes for that shed every year, are not cheap! And the small amount of hay that is wasted is not going to pay for it. The majority of the wasted hay, is from sitting on the ground, and you would have that same problem in a shed, unless you had a concrete floor, and that would add a lot more expense. Whatever is wasted is put back as organic matter on the fields.

[@timmyotoolable]

@@trinitydairy fare point.but the quality of the hay will be poor due to the exposure to the elements. Love the video and keep up the good work. 👍

[@iskoisko8323]

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[@lesterkirby3367]

Uv got 8 hoof prints and 4 tyre tracks ...x2 and u try and tell me a tractor do more damage..😕.. come on ... iv oned horses and worked with them most of my live ... iv drove tractors of all sheaps and sises big and small...😕... helo from IRELAND...

[@trinitydairy]

In clay mud, yup a tractor could do way more damage, but it's not so much about damage. His 2 wheel drive tractor won't go through that mud, it's just like a grease when it gets muddy. Hello Ireland!

[@Melidontcare]

Horrible music

[@trinitydairy]

Thanks for the input. However the high-pitched squeak from the Bale mover was a million times worse.

[@phibber]

i object to he use of blinders on the horses....are they trained or no?do they trus you?believe in you?you're at home not a parade. you are in conrol of he environment. remove the blinders.

[@trinitydairy]

They are very well trained, and I would bet, with the trust they have in my dad, they would go through anything, without blinders. But I see no good reason to remove them, they don't hurt the animal in any way!

[@danvanhoose6783]

Why the crappy music?not needed!

[@trinitydairy]

The bale mover makes a terrible screeching sound that is worse than nails on a chalkboard. Working on a video with the team now that will have NO music.

[@camillea6701]

This is not "crappy" music.