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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] was Random thoughts about the day, now tote sleds
  • Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:17:22 EST



> >Not Lynn, but I too use a tote sled for just about anything in the
> winter---

There's a type of sled used around here and is a traditional piece of
Appalachian farm equipment. It's called a "stone boat" because it is sturdy
enough
to haul a load of stones out of the fields as they were unearthed by the
plow.
But is is also used for wood, hay, and everything else.

The runners are made of locust logs and if done properly it can be dragged
over a pasture or hayfield and hardly leave a mark. It's intended to be
horse
drawn, of course.

A similar device is the hay sled proper, two log runners with a wide platform
and standards. Here abouts wheeled vehicles for horses are dicey. But with
a sled, when the horse or team pulls it up (or down) a slope and the horse
needs to stop, the sled stops too.

Also there is little danger of runaway. Herself was training an unruly
Belgian and when the onwer came for her (the Belgian, no matter how many
offers I
made!), the horse suppressed six weeks of training and went wild. Herself
hitched her to the stone boat and had all of us sit in it. The horse again
went
wild, but after dragging the stone boat 100 feed under full load, decided
better of it. This going wild business was a lot of work!

James




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