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In Reply to: Manure hauling pics posted by jon f mn on January 30, 2022 at 06:50:45:
When I was about 6-8 years old, I became old enough to help clean the hog house in the winter. (I think it was mainly to get me out of my mother's hair.) We used the team (Duke & Dock) on an old Galloway ground drive spreader. After riding along on the first couple of loads, Dad determined that I could drive the team & manage the spreader by myself. I am sure Duke & Dock knew more about what had to be done than I did. For the next several years, that became my job, drive the team on the spreader. The main issue was to open & close the wooden gate next to the barn. Fortunately, Dad had installed an old steel wheel from a binder's truck so I could simply unlatch the gate & roll it open or closed. After the first trip through the gate, the horses knew just where to stop so I could get off the spreader so I could open the gate by swinging it towards them. They would then plod through the gate with out any direction from me. They would inveriably stop so that about a foot of the spreader was short of getting clear through the gate. I know that they did this on purpose and we're giving me a horse laugh when I had to tell them to step up a couple of steps. They would go at least twice the length of the spreader just to make me walk further to get back to the seat of the spreader. I know they knew more about spreading manure than I did. They would walk just far enough away from & parallel to the last area spread so there was no overlap with out directions from me.
Does anyone else have a memory of working with a team as a kid? Dad had raised these guys since they were colts. They were smart, gentle and loved to work & please you. When I was little I used to walk beneath their bellies bringing the belly bands from one side to the other when harnessing them. They didn't care. The only thing you has to worry about was that they didn't step on your toes when working around them. Dad planted checked corn with them for many years after most folks went to 4-row drilled corn.
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