Mark Kimball's Draft Teams at Essex Farm in Upstate New York

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Back to the future of the past . . .


This video shows the gentle nature of the horse and the irony of them being superior to trucks in a modern situation. I watched this video in awe many a time before I even noticed the rodent going across the screen (and someone putting it in captions). The rodent comes out of the snow and as one of these 4 horses abreast came in danger of tramping it, the eqine halts the pulling of a 26,000 lbs milk truck in the snow. What a compassionate creature. What tractor can do that ? I hear the new Mercedes Benz can do that, but obviously this is an old technology.