Annie, I live close to Baltimore but I have my larger place between Cumberland
and Keyser, in Rawlings so we could have been neighbors. I wanted to retire
there but who knows what the future will bring with kids and all. I am planning
to do a lot of camping and trail riding to Dan's Mountain top, state land that
our place attaches to and I want to have a big ride for FRIDA riding club this
spring up there. I have so much woods that it just seems like such a waste to
not give my plump horses something to do when I take them up for a stretch
other than trail ride. I would like to have horses with a little bit of a job
that makes me feel like we can make the place better for us all. I still don't
have a barn up there, just corral panels to keep them in. I think teaching
these guys to pull trees out of the woods shouldn't be too hard, I actually
started my horses by ground driving and advanced them to leadline with a kid on
them before I rode them myself. I don't have the tack to do it yet but we have
a lot of places nearby that Amish made working gear is available and I think I
would get something made for the Hafllinger as they are pretty common and about
the same size as iceys. Did you team pull the logs or was it all one horse per
job? You can email me privately if we are taking up too much chatting space. I
always thought my guys looked kind of drafty.
