Today @Working Horses With Jim, we go up to an Amish friend’s farm to pick up some equipment (disk harrows) that we are sharing. Later we disk the garden with our single Belgian draft horse, Bill.
Watch our videos to learn about draft horses- horse logging, horses farming, and horse training! Jim uses Belgian, Percheron, and Suffolk horses to do work on the farm and in the woods. He teaches about harnesses, horse-drawn logging and farming equipment, horse feeding and maintenance, and voice commands for horses. New videos uploaded every week. Keep watching to see how Jim trains his new Suffolk Punch colts as he has trained his full-grown teams!
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:27 Off to Ben’s
1:45 Loading up the Disks
5:39 Disking the Garden with Bill
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38 Comments
Nice. He almost took off after you adjusted the discs! Easier! You're a lucky lady, Brenda.
Good day Boy with tractor you can't hear ground rubbing on disc plates. Yea I thought to hard on 1 horse, but wasn't puffing too much. Good job, some things modern machinery can't match.. Yet all our horse neighbors are selling there machinery & getting in custom. Can't figure it out. There machinery is going to Amish. Thanks
Thanks for sharing. I do enjoy watching your post and you all make a great team working togeter. Have a nice safe day!!
Hi Jim, nice equipment. It´s really great cultivating the garden with horses. Farm on, Andreas
Cindy and I say hello. Thank you for sharing. We have great respect for the Amish. And it's nice that they allow you to video what you have. We can all learn from them. We have some Amish living here on PEI too. Your gardens looks great. Looking forward to seeing what you will grow. Have a wonderful long weekend. From PEI
Always great to see things getting into place so you can start on the garden.
Nice job. I like the way you can adjust your setting on your disk, mine is much less user friendly. For my garden since we seem to have years that are very wet early on I have gone to making hilled rows with my plow after doing all the prep you have done. I just go down and back with the plow and make a ridge, then make another ridge etc until I have a series of plowed up ridges. I then take my horse cultivator down the aisle to smooth out the bottom of the "dead furrow". I have found in my heavy soil this makes better ridge than my McCormick-Deering 2 horse cultivator set with disks. The heavy soil always straightens the disks up or makes the raise row too shallow. The raised row improves drainage and we don't have plants "drown" the year's we have a wet spring right after planting. It does require more water though when it gets hot. Guess I can't really win. 😉
GARDEN LOOKS GOOD
I think the disc would get deeper if Bill rode and Jim pulled. Maybe not.
Well done. Garden almost ready to plant.
Hi Bill did great job loved video 👍👋
I would think when their streaight its easeyer to pull
Oh Brenda, fresh garlic , yum yum. I try growing kohlrabi but can't get a green thumb at all. Bill is beautiful. Thanks for sharing your lifestyle!
how much horses power in a tractor would it take to do that job? thanks.
I like this beautiful horse 🙂👍👍
Good video.
God bless you.
An amazing animal to say the least. 👍🐴
Kolay gelsin,beni çocukluğuma gotürdünüz sağolun. atları çok severim, çok sadıklar.
"Hot Laps" at 17:10!!!! Practice for the "County Fair Roman Chariot Races"….???? "Askin' fer a friend" Garden is looking good.
When a horse is working that hard give him some slack on the rains. His mouth is open all the time trying to get some relief.
You must have terrific garden soil with all the horse manure available to spread on it.
I've never used horses before so I'd choose a small tractor any day. But I have to say I really enjoy watching the horses work. You have beautiful animals and the work you do with them seems very efficient. And the rhythm of their work is mesmerizing. I guess that's what may be so attractive about using draft horses? Plus the love of horses, of course.
Hola que lindo lugar donde ese lugar me encanta 💖
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I am living vicariously watching you disc a garden with a beautiful horse.
That thing looks HEAVY! Good thing the horses are strong! LOL Bill makes it look like nothing!
Lovely pleasant speaking camera person. You’re doing an excellent job my dear. Stay safe and God bless. 🇨🇦
Good Job! A biddable team. No hesitation when asked to work. They trusted you in a new situation. Just a taste of what our grandfathers dealt with on a regular bases. I know you are proud of that team.
Well done Jim love to watch the horses working
That bill would have been my horse when I was a kid ,lots of go ,I love them Belgians they are so powerful looking animals
Just for my own education, if Ben lives without running water or electricity, what is the rational for him being able to use a power saw in his mill?
In our part of the world a "harrow"is much different than this disc. Hope I don't come across as a wise guy. A harrow has spikes that flatten the surface out.
Are the Amish stronger then average ?
Why no kidney drops.
I like it when we go to bens.
It's kinda good to have Bill burn off some of that energy.
I had to do that with one of my quarter horses.
Ride him a little bit more. He was a fine horse just a little on the nervous side. But horses are a lot like people and life in general.
You live in such a good community. Thank you for sharing and thank them for allowing you to share.