This package combines the expertise of teamster Brandt Ainsworth, renowned author and horse expert Lynn Miller, veterinarian Beth Valentine, farrier Mike Wildenstein, horse farmer Steve Bowers and implement expert Sam Moore -- all to help you establish, maintain or improve your horse farming outfit. Train and take care of your horses, learn about implements available today, and uses your horses efficiently and effectively in your farming operation. A $200 value, the discounted price includes expedited shipping (FedEx or Priority Mail)
Harnessing Work Horses (Brandt Ainsworth): Ten beautiful and hardworking draft horses—Percheron, Belgian, Brabant, and Spotted Draft—help demonstrate variations in collars and pads, bridles and bits, harness parts and fit, driving lines, eveners and neck yokes, and an array of harness styles including martingale (bellybacker), sidestrap (sidebacker), D-ring, Y-back, pulling, plow, and logging harness to help you select the style of harness and collar that best suits your needs, as well as fit and fine-tune your harness to keep your horses healthy and comfortable; 1 hour 48 minute DVD.
Driving Draft Horses (Brandt Ainsworth): This video clearly demonstrates how to attach driving lines, correct ways to handle lines for both comfort and safety, how to drive with one hand or both, the use of voice commands in conjunction with the lines, driving a team or a single, ground driving, and how to properly handle lines while starting a load and backing a team; 1 hour 12 minute DVD.
Implements for Farming with Horses & Mules (Sam Moore): This single volume serves as an owner's manual on how to adjust, use, and maintain a wide variety of vintage and modern horse-powered farm equipment for tilling, planting, cultivating, making hay, harvesting, hauling, and fertilizer spreading; 280 pages, 8.5x11 paperback.
Farming with Horses (Steve Bowers, Marlen Stewart): This beautifully illustrated volume discusses several styles of work harness and their functions, shows how to properly fit each individual part, explains how to hitch a single or team to a farm implement, cart, or hitch wagon and shows how to handle the lines for each kind of hitch, all written and illustrated in a style that makes each step easy to follow; 160 pages, 8.5x11 paperback.
Draft Horses, An Owner's Manual (Beth Valentine, Mike Wildenstein): This manual for draft horse owners of the 21st century comprehensively covers the unique aspects of caring for work horses and ponies, divided into three sections: draft horse basics, discussing routine care and feeding; monitoring draft horse health, describing clues that tell you all might not be well; and a detailed section explaining what can go wrong and what to do about it; 236 pages, 8.5x11 paperback.
Work Horse Handbook, 2nd Edition (Lynn Miller): Commonly known as “the teamster’s bible” this complete guide to horse power includes discussions on horse care, feeding, stabling, harnessing, hitching singles, teams and multiples, the principles of driving for work, the dynamics of draft, and hitching up to various implements, illustrated with many more photos and drawings than the original edition.; 369 pages, 8.5x11 paperback. |
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