another hobby.

[Old Iron]

Thise are some great pics

[bob w]

Yes, nice pics. Brings back memories of my childhood.

[MercuryMac]

I think they might be Percherons, but I'll try and get the details when he comes back to get his sleigh.
Thank you Guys.
To pay for the sleigh ride, I get to put an old tractor on his threshing machine next time again and I get to stook until I'm not having fun anymore. What a great opportunity, eh?

[Couper]

Great pictures and awesome looking horses!

[dutch]

Some 30yrs ago I got a call from a retired man in my town who bought his first horse, which was a 3yr old Friesian. With no experience whatsoever, he also purchased this sleigh, bells and all... long story short; That Christmas he came to town centre , fully dressed Santa with horse and sleigh. The horse heard the bells and must have thought it was a start sign for a drag race.... Everyone lived, but some needed clean underwear...

[MercuryMac]

Dutch, we are so calm in Canada that even though we had two horses on our sleigh, ....... everyone still lived, ...... I didn't check everyone's underwear, though.

[lazarat]

I grew up in the city, not many horses, except for the guy with the horse pulling a produce wagon up and down the streets.

Then there was the time me and two friends were underage drinking at night in a pavilion in a large city park called PennyPack, not far from a bridge that was built by William Penn and still in use to this day.

In the distance we hear this booming voice getting closer and closer, singing something about "eating your guts and drinking your blood..."

We froze as we hear horse hoofs along with the singing. Suddenly a mounted Philly cop comes riding through the pavilion, drunk as hell, holding a bottle of bourbon, says "Hows it going boys"!

...and rides out, singing more of the happy tune...The horse seemed to be enjoying it...

[MercuryMac]

We had an old tractor "plowday" on Saturday. There were about 25 tractors there. The dirt was very, very hard, so everyone was trying to downsize their plows by trading their 'too big' plow for a smaller one. I was a popular fellow because I took four two bottom plows and two threes. Only some of the plows were lenders though, as I took four tractors. In the pictures, the Minneapolis Moline 'U' and the big Ford are my daughters and my son-in-law came to drive them. We had guests helping us drive so those two tractors worked quite a bit. [pic two] is the owner of the land driving the MM 'U' and excited as heck. When I was showing the land owner how to plow for a few rounds, I could feel the front wheels dancing on and off the ground most of the time, and that's in first gear. The ground was very hard.
The next load of tractors up to the field was, [pic three] the Ferguson and the Twin City. [pic four] is an action shot of me plowing with the Ferguson. I was scared that the Ferguson would not show well, but it did alright.
The last shot is the load of plows coming back home.

[dutch]

cool stuff Mac. Looking forward to seeing some Chrysler power in action

[Old Iron]

It's fun to be the participant but, almost as much fun letting others experience the joy, that feeling we have while playing in our hobbies.