Seems I remember someone posting photos of working three abreast, pulling a wagon, and they had two tongues, so to speak on the wagon… anyone remember seeing it. did a search on here ( matter of fact, I did several ) but can't find anything … wondering how you arrange the single trees.. still use a three horse evener? or just three single trees?

Do a search (using the link at the top) and type "three abreast" (with the quotation marks) and you will get lots of threads. Many with photos. One of the best is this one:

https://www.ruralheritage.com/messageboard/frontporch/16998.htm

That is one way to do it. They also make a 3 horse tongue evener. Two horses go on one side of the tongue and one on the other. To call it an evener, however, is a misnomer. The strong side is held even with the weak side by putting a second pin in the tongue.
Another way to do it is to use an offset tongue and a regular 3-horses evener.
I got my 3 horse tongue enver and my offset tongue from The Evener Shop. They regularly advertise in RH.

Thanks Uncle Joe, must have need the brackets around it,, yes, those are the two pictures I remember… I may attempt this on my new bale wagon, it';s a fair little pull to start it and with a better trained horse on either side, looks like it would help on these young horses… i reverted to using some straight bhar bits I made myself, quite a few years ago, on the older team, the bits have short shanks and a sliding mouth piece, kind of like a gag and I made some curb straps out of small chain.. I hook on right at the bit and when they start to pull on me, I just stop them and hook a bit lower.. still not much for leverage., but it gets tne job done… I know, maybe it isn't the correct way, in some peoples books, but they are not the ones out here trying to feed cows with these horses.. we can't all have perfect horses, I guess. ;-)

Thanks Felt, good info...

The way that first picture looked, you could have used a "centerfire" evener. Rdennis, I don't think I've seen any perfect horses. If you are happy and your horses are happy, that's what matters most.

There is also a way to hook 3 abreast on a tongue using a 4 horse evener and a pulley system on one side. I suppose that a double tongue set up is better as it would be centered,but I've used it quite a bit and has worked great. There are two horses on one side of the tongue and one set up with the pulley on the other side so he pulls half as much as the other two. Don't know if this helps at all.

The double tongue for 3 abreast is particularly useful for backing heavy loads. All 3 horses can get their share of the load, as opposed to a regular pulling evener, adequate for most field work, where when backing with the single pole only the two on the yoke are doing all the work.

When backing three always use a three horse neck yoke, it provides an even application of force backwards and keeps hitch working correctly going forward getting maximum power and effectiveness from the hitch.