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Driven Draft Animals

Driven Draft Animals . Oxen Draft horses Even tried moose. . Draft Horses . Draft horses are any horses with big bones and body's that are made to pull heavy things. And weigh more then 1,600 pounds.

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Driven Draft Animals

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  1. Driven Draft Animals Oxen Draft horses Even tried moose.

  2. Draft Horses • Draft horses are any horses with big bones and body's that are made to pull heavy things. And weigh more then 1,600 pounds. • A fully trained horse can cost around $1,200. A younger horse is about in the $500 range. • Using a logging arch and a team of draft horses you can move, on average, about 250 board feet of hardwood per skid. approximately 3,000 pounds. • practical skidding distance is about 1/4 mile. • $1.03 per hour per horse direct cost.

  3. How Much Does it Cost to Own a Horse? • An average sized draft horse eats 40 pounds of hay and grain per 100 pounds of body weight.They are fed twice a day, about 12 hours apart, morning and night , and need water 3 times a day. They need salt at all times. $3.00 per 40-pound bale of hay, $12.00 per 100 pounds of grain. The horses use about 50 pounds of salt per team per month, costing approximately $6.00 a day

  4. Equipment for a draft horse • modern horse logging equipment for the horses alone includes nylon harness, collars, singletrees, doubletrees, breast yoke, log arch, chains, grabs, and a hammer. The chainsaw operator requires personal protective gear, as does the horse handler. Compared to oxen, draft horses require more equipment.

  5. Compare a horse to a skidder • A horse weighs about 1,600 pounds weighs about 10,000 pounds • A horse can be maintained for 1 year for less than it costs to buy one skidder tire. • A single horse may be used to skid low-density trees like red cedar; a team of horses is needed to skid high-density trees like oak. • Typically, four animals are brought to a logging site and are rotated to give them breaks from working. • Start-up costs (1996) for horse-logging are about less than $10,000; start-up costs for conventional logging are greater than $100,000.

  6. Skidders • Logging equipment that looks like tractors used to pull logs out of the woods. • They are expensive to own and maintain.

  7. Oxen • Any castrated bull older then 5 yes old is considered a ox. • It takes a well trained team of oxen to log with them. • You have to make sure the wood lot is fit for your team.

  8. Ox equipment • The basic equipment for working a team in the woods, besides a team that's willing to work, is a yoke and a chain about 12' to 15' long with a C hook on one end and a grab hook on the other.

  9. Chains • There is at least two tips of caiman chains used in logging. • The most cumin chain is a choke chain. A choke chain is about a teen foot long chain that has a C heed on the edd of it. • A C heed is a metal circle with a slit on won side of the circle. just big enough so a link of a chain can fit thru it. • The anther chain is gust a regular chain with tow hocks.

  10. Resource • http://ruralheritage.com/logging_camp/oxlog02.htm

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