Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[pollitos2013]

3goodeggs - I love the bee pictures! Thank you - I really want bees but I am currently kind of over-extended...

 

[perchie.girl]

Those videos are really cool!

Bet you didn't know they still use horses for logging in Wisconsin. They use them when they need to log in environmentally sensitive areas or where you want to keep ground damage to a minimum like parks, etc. or there is one guy up here with a team he uses to log out areas where the machines can't get too or small parcels. I really enjoy watching them work and love it when we happened to come upon them on a job. There is also a farm just down from our feedmill that is a small scale breeder of working Perchies. Love watching those huge spring "babies" kicking up their heels.

I do know that.... small Farms mixed hardwoods difficult terrain... All are going back to logging with Horses and Mules and Oxen Better ecology because you dont have to do roads... and the horses can do any terrain that humans can do without putting their hands down... Oxen are even better. Stronger and lower center of gravity.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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Or balls to the wall.... Yeper...

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Horse logging in Oregon... sensitive habitat and very rough terrain.

deb

 

[Peep_Show]

Hey those are the engines that gave birth to the phrase "balls out" as in to go fast, full speed etc...

Or balls to the wall.... Yeper...

deb

Thanks! I learned something new today. I always wondered where the phrase came from. I just thought it meant you were so fearless and confident that certain things were exposed and not needed to be protected. (shows where my mind digresses to....)

 

[hennible]

Lol

 

[ocap]

I do know that.... small Farms mixed hardwoods difficult terrain... All are going back to logging with Horses and Mules and Oxen Better ecology because you dont have to do roads... and the horses can do any terrain that humans can do without putting their hands down... Oxen are even better. Stronger and lower center of gravity.

deb

Oxen are a little safer when logging because the drover works the team from the front, the log won't over his/her ankles.

Or balls to the wall.... Yeper...

deb

I thought that this particular saying was associated with the balls on the early airplanes throttles (WWII). throttles full forward meant to hurry to the war's action.
now back to my coffee.

 

[kyexotics]

Balls to the walls?
I thought it was a prison term from Shawshank Redemption?

 

[Puddin Fluff]

I just love the conversations here!

Morning all. Anyone know any thing about sheers?

I was given a set for my llamas, no instructions, I started trying to sheer them yesterday but something is not set correctly. I have one very patient girl who is half shorn. luckily from a distance it is hard to see, but I am sure the other llamas are teasing her about her bad hair cut. I've got to find someone to look at my clippers.

 

[kyexotics]

I just love the conversations here!

Morning all. Anyone know any thing about sheers?

I was given a set for my llamas, no instructions, I started trying to sheer them yesterday but something is not set correctly. I have one very patient girl who is half shorn.

luckily from a distance it is hard to see, but I am sure the other llamas are teasing her about her bad hair cut. I've got to find someone to look at my clippers.

I'm sure there are online instructions available and maybe even youtube vids helping!