Jerry, when I was a kid, we had horses and that thing was called a "neck yoke", I think. Snap one end ring to the Hames? (on the horse's collar)on one horse, then the other end to the other horse. The center ring slipped of metal tip of the wagon tongue which had a protruding piece on the under side of the tongue that would not let the tongue slide forward through that center ring for but a few inches. This kept the wagon coming forward and hitting the horses rear legs.
The evener was the pulling (2 x 6?) that was pivotally pinned to the top of the wagon tongue at the rear of the horses. Each horse had two tugs (heavy leather straps) the hooked to the pivoting 2 x 6, two on one half and two on the other half. The pivoting action allowed one horse to be ahead or behind the other horse briefly "evening" out the varieances of the shared load. As I write this I am missing something...the tugs were hooked to a whipple? tree solid roundish bar of wood about the width of the horse and then the whipple tree? was center hooked to one (not two) spot on that 2 x 6 "evener"....often when using one horse and not needing the load to be "evened", one just used that whipple tree? dragging on the ground behind the horse and used that arragenment for one-horse loads.
I harnessed the last darned horse about 1950 and am glad to never do anything with horses again. I do like to see horses work at shows, though, it brings back the smells and memories! Leo
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