The winner, pulling 9,500 pounds for over eight feet, was a local team.
It’s an interesting sport. The ‘full pull’ is 27.5 feet for no reason anyone seems to know. They pull in stages that increase by a thousand pounds to eight thousand, then by five hundred each thereafter. Beautiful draft horses.
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I'd love to see that. Those old draft horses are amazing animals.
Had to see it in action- Wow. Hardest part was getting them hooked up! Chomping at the bit to go to work!
Thanks for the video, douglas. Impressive animals.
There's a show from the BBC called 'Victorian Farm' or something like that. A historian and two experimental archeologists live on a preserved Victorian-era farm and live like Victorian farmers for a year. The number of things they use a draft horse for is impressive. Those horses were pretty much every kind of engine for the farmer, whether tractor, truck, the engine for a grain grinder, whatever.
Here's a good video. Two draft horses help pull a semi up an icy hill.
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