A Bi-Monthly Magazine
Borrowing From Yesterday To Do the Work Of Today
Offering Resources to Promote Self-Sufficient & Back-to-the-Land Living
Logging
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Logging Resources
Above: Bob and student hitching a log with a skid pan at Paul Smith’s College in New York.
Resource Materials
Visit our Bookstore for the most extensive collection of draft horse logging resources.
Why Log with Horses?
by Jason Rutledge
Horse Logging at a Crossroads
by Rob Borsato
Getting Started
- Getting Started in Horse Logging ;by Jason Rutledge
- Logging Horses vs. Farming by Glenn French
- Conformation of a Good Logging Horse by Glenn French
- Cold Weather Logging by Brandt Ainsworth
- Lines or Goad? by Brandt Ainsworth
- Logging with Oxen by Drew Conroy
- Ox Logging Basics by Drew Conroy
- Equipment for Draft Animal Logging by Jason Rutledge
Logging Skills
- Sharpen Your Horse Logging Skills by Tim Carroll
- Cultivating Your Woodlot by Brandt Ainsworth
- Cant Hook or Peavey? by Sam Moore
- Horse Logging Contracts by Tim Carroll
- Logging Lingo by Brandt Ainsworth
Care of Your Logging Horse and Oxen
- Feed and Water for Your Logging Horse by Gregg Caudell
Loggers and Logging Jobs
- Draft Horse and Mule Loggers for Hire
- List your Logging Business
- Timber Market Report courtesy of The Pennsylvannia State University
Additional Resources
Above: Logger Taylor Johnson works with his Belgian.
Teams for Sale
Information on trimming, clipping, repair, materials, shoes, stocks, and forge work.
Many articles about caring for your horse including nutrition,
breeding, disease, EPSM, and much more.
breeding, disease, EPSM, and much more.
A place to spend time with others interested in draft animals, self-sufficient living,
small-scale family farming and other aspects of our rich rural heritage.
small-scale family farming and other aspects of our rich rural heritage.
Home of the internet’s most extensive calendar listing of draft horse events
(frequently updated online)
(frequently updated online)
An online listing of businesses that provide products and services to the draft animal
industry as well as small sustainable farming activities.
industry as well as small sustainable farming activities.
Learn more about different harnesses, hitches, materials, care.
Above: Melanie Brundage brings a log home with Moose.
