Draft 101

• Pull heavy loads (averaging 5,000 pounds per team of 2 horses or mules 
• Draft Animals exist today because they go places where motor vehicles can't
• Much higher risk in driving a car than horse
• Horses have instincts to avoid danger
• Transporting / Hauling
• Plowing / Cultivating
• Logging / Thinning
• Compost / Manure
• Grazing / Clearing
• Packing / Riding
• The original renewable energy
• Partners in the origins of human settlements
• Impact on sensitive surfaces is less than wheeled vehicles
• They do not require fossil fuels to survive 
• Draft Horses were once a cornerstone for land grant universities
• Recreational horse sports are a symbol of wealth and privilege, 
• Draft horses are practical, and working class in origin