Teams - Contest

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Voting on this contest will carry over until around noon Saturday.....cuz I totally forgot to post it last night at midnight. LOL

1. Clarencen

2. little bow rancher

3. Big Muddy Rancher

4. Turkey Track Bar

5. Northern Rancher

 

[Clarencen]

I can't tell you very much abot this team. I took this pictures a few years back at the Wilbut Faye Old Time Threshing Bee. I don't remember who owned this team, perhaps I never knew. Some people who participated came from quite a distance. They also showed antique tractors, cars, trucks, and other equipment. I also have a picture of them catching grain from the thresh machine into a model T truck.

Some of the young people enjoyed pitching bundles into a threshing machine, and even a few older people enjoyed the opportunity to feed bundles into a thresh machine again.

Some people had built bundle wagons or racks just for these threshing bees. Usually they threshed grain from shocks, but one year someone had a horse grain binder, and onr year someone had a "header" and a header barge they elevated cut grain into. This header was the kind where the horses pushed and the opeator straddled a tiller.

They haven't had one of these Threshing Bees for some time now, but they did say they might have another in a few years. There is a lot of work involved in putting one of these together, and it takes the efforts of several people.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

The team in your picture Clarence really caught my eye. A real handy size ranch team.

 

[Clarencen]

It has been years since I worked with a team of horses (would you believe about 60) Then we only used them for a few tasks, the bundle wagon at threshing time and the corn wagon in the fall I agree that team really catches your attention. Most people who have teams today have them for a hobby. Even that is dieing out. At one time I thought I would like to own a nice team and an easy riding wagon. Couldn't afford one now.

 

[little bow rancher]

Hay BMR its D'

That team looks alot like a Suffolk Punch team. They range from 15hh to 17hh with and average of 16hh with a weight range of 1500 - 2000 lbs.

They do make a nice light team.

Hope that helps. 8) :lol: