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The Book of Draft Horses
The Gentle Giants that Built the
World Donna Campbell
Smith New book that focuses on the History, Breeds, Breeding, Buying
considerations, Health care, Showing draft horses, Draft Horse Pulls and
using them for Pleasure. This book does cover briefly a few showing
guidelines. Hard cover some color pages, 147 pages.
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Brabant Horses Built for Work,
DVD with Karen Gruner of the American Brabant Association. The video covers
a brief history of the breed, the disposition and working ability of this
gentle breed of horses, and its relationship with the American Belgian
horse. $28.00 DVD |
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Bringing In The Hay A
nostalgic history of agriculture's most romantic crop, by David A. Asson.
A huge variety of photos in b&w and color showing the methods of
putting up hay using sickles, scythes, mowers, rakes, tedders, loaders and
stackers of all sorts. This book has a delightful blend of
nostalgia, history and resourceful information for people who want to farm
with horses or want to identify the relics at the sales and on the farms -
especially in the west. 124 pages. Soft cover, 8 ½ X 11"
$24.00 autographed copies! |
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A Century of
Belgian Horses, Maurice Telleen. The history, development and
breeding of Belgian horses in the United States up to 1989. 499 pages, 900 photos
& illustrations. Soft cover. 8 ½ x 11"
$35.00 + $12 s/h |
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Clay
Maier has a series of 4 DVD sets to help you work and train your horses
to drive. Because there are several of these I wanted to include them as a
group instead of alphabetically by title. He is using Frisians in these
training tapes. All for DVDs for $250 + $10 s/h The first instruction is:
1. Introduction to Long Reins
"Long reining, long lining or ground driving" a training technique by
different names. This works well for young horses and the older horse.
$67 2 DVD set $6 s/h |
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2.
Advanced Long Reining "A great follow-up to the Introduction to Long
Reins. Learn how and why lateral movement taught from the ground can be a
benefit to your horse."
$67 2 DVD set + $6 s/h or order any two sets for $130 + $8 s/h |
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3.
Tandem Riding "Expand your horsemanship skills and the relationships
with your horses with the challenge and fun of tandem riding. And find out
what to look for in horses and equipment."
$67 2 DVD set + $6 s/h |
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Train Your Horse To
Drive "An easy-to-understand, safe, thorough system for training your
horse to pull a carriage. Also included, tips on selecting your first
carriage." $67 - 2 DVD
set + $6 s/h |
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Discovering Horse-Drawn
Farm Machinery Shire Classics D. J. Smith
This small book is packed full of information on the early Victorian
agricultural machinery including the plough, grubbers, cultivators, harrows,
rollers, drills, reapers, binders, root lifters, manure spreaders, rakes and
other types of implements. 4 1/2 x 7" soft cover 96 pages.
$13.95 + $4 s/h |
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Doc
Hammill's Horsemanship Video Series - Fundamentals I Doc Hammill
DVM and Tom Triplett, Master Horseman Gentle, effective techniques for
driving and working horses in harness. Fundamentals One: An
introduction to the fundamentals of driving & working horses in harness
including. commands, communicating with the lines, collars, harness,
bits, harnessing, hitching and more. 2 hour VHS or DVD
$49.95 + $6 s/h
or Fundamentals I and II for $89.95 + $9 s/h Specify which format you want
VHS 20% off sale on VHS tapes limited
to stock on hand.$39.95 each or $72 for any 2 VHS tapes, $140 for all four
VHS tapes |
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Doc
Hammill's Horsemanship Video Series Fundamentals II
Doc Hammill DVM and Tom Triplett,
Master Horseman Gentle, effective techniques for driving and working
horses in harness. Fundamentals Two: A continuation of the first tape
plus harness adjustment, adjusting team lines, discussion of bits, fitting
collars, intro to mowing, skidding logs and more. 2 hour VHS or DVD
$49.95 + $6
s/h or Fundamentals I and II for $89.95 + $9 s/h Specify which
format you want VHS or DVD Price is the same. |
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Doc Hammill's
Horsemanship Video Series III
Doc Hammill DVM and Tom Triplett,
Master Horseman. Hooking up lines, harness, pulling and holding back,
foot care, attaching doubletrees and more.
$49.95 + $6 s/h
20% off sale on VHS
tapes limited to stock on hand, $39.95 each |
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Doc Hammill's
Horsemanship Video Series IV
Doc Hammill DVM and Tom Triplett,
Master Horseman Intro to working in the woods, foot care, harness
discussion, breast and pole strap options, bridles and check reins, using
buckback rope and more.
$49.95 + $6 s/h
20% off sale on VHS
tapes limited to stock on hand, $39.95 each
Order all 4 DVDs for $175 + $7 s/h or $10.00 s/h for all 4 videos
20% off sale on VHS
tapes limited to stock on hand, $39.95 each or $72 for any 2 VHS tapes, $140
for all four VHS tapes |
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Doc Hammill's
The Horses Can Do It! A
delightful half hour for children of all ages. How will the work be done on
Doc's Montana Ranch? Why of course... The Horses Can Do It!
Available in VHS or DVD
$17.95 + $6 s/h
20% off sale for VHS - one in stock. |
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Doc Hammill's Teaching Horses to
Drive, A Ten Step Method. Communicating in the horse's own language
leads to better understanding and allows the horse to feel safe and
comfortable which in turns helps them to succeed. 10 easy steps produces
calm, comfortable, willing, dependable driving horses, mules, ponies and
donkeys. $89.95
- 2 DVD set 3 ½ hours |
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Draft Horse Images,
Robert Mischka. All color photos with stories about several top
shows, the Circus parade, famous hitches and events that use the draft
horses at work and show. Soft cover. 160 pages. 8 ½ X 11”
$25.95
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Draft Horse
Primer Maurice Telleen. A Guide to the selection, care and
use of work horses and mules today. Great for beginners. Many illustrations
with black & white photos. 386 pages. This book is now out of print but
I have a few used copies.
$50 |
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Draft Horses an Owner's
Manual This new book covers the aspects of caring for draft horses,
basics and monitoring their health, describing things that can go wrong and
what to do. Dr. Beth Valentine DVM and Mike Wildenstein, farrier 236 pages. Soft Cover.
8 ½ X 11" $32.00
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Draft Horses
and Mules Harnessing Equine Power for Farm and Show Gail Damerow
& Alina Rice. New book! Covering selection
of breeds of horses, mules, communicating with equine, housing, feeding,
health care, first aid, harnessing and driving, and working with draft power
for farming & logging. Lots more info! Many B&W photos and a few sections of
color photos. A great book for the beginner. 272 Pages, soft cover, 8
½ x 10 7/8"
$24.95 |
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Draft Horses Today
Robert Mischka The best book for contemporary information in full color
showing the used of draft horses and mules in North America. 176 pages, 290
color photos. Hard Cover. 8 ½ X 11”
$32.95 |
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Driving Draft Horses DVD with Brandt Ainsworth This video offers
tips and techniques for correct ways to handle lines for comfort and safety,
the use of voice commands, driving a team or single horse, ground driving,
backing a team and more.
$32.00 DVD |
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Farming with Horses Steve Bowers & Marlen Steward New book
with lots of helpful information on harness, collars, hitching your horse to
implements, how to maintain lateral and longitudinal alignment with proper
rein grip, and more. All color photos and illustrations. 160 pages, 8 ½ X
11" Steve also has a series of video and DVDs on driving and training.
$21.95 |
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From
the Box Seat A look at Competitive Driving with draft horses and
interviews with the people driving the 6 horse hitches. Terry Veevers VHS
$39.95 VHS |
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Fundamentals of
Draft Horse Shoeing DVD with Michael Wildenstein resident farrier
at Cornell University. Mike shows how to pull a shoe, trim the hoof, shape a
shoe and nail it on. He also shows what to do it the horse throws a shoe and
breaks the hoof wall. He covers caring for hooves of the work horse and does
not get into Scotch bottom shoes for show.
$28.00 DVD |
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Gypsy Horses
and the Travelers' Way, The Road to Appleby Fair, John S. Hockensmith
A big colorful book full of photos of a variety of gypsy caravans, carts,
horses and the people as they gather each year in Northern England to buy
and sell horses. The author shares his artistic view of this exclusive event
through his camera, his writing and poetry to add to the romance of this
culture. 184 pages, 9 ½
x 12 ¼"
Hardcover with dust jacket. $49.95
+ $11 s/h Also a collector's edition in a box set signed and numbered $99.95 |
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Haying With Horses Lynn Miller.
A wonderful book giving information on how to make hay with old and newer equipment.
350 + pages, with hundreds of drawings and photos. A must for your
farming with horses library! Soft cover. 8 ½ X 11”
$32.95 + $11
s/h soft cover
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Harnessing, Hitching and Driving Steve Bowers A
more advanced presentation of harnessing, hitching and driving for the
beginner and experienced driver. Drawings to explain alignment. Stories by
Ol' Stumpy for humor and entertainment. 100 minutes.
$60.00 + $8 s/h DVD -
20% discount for VHS $48 + s/h limited to the one copy
in stock |
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Harnessing Work Horses, DVD with Brandt Ainsworth - this video
will show you how to select the harness and collar to suit your needs and
how to fit and adjust it to keep your horse comfortable.
$34.00 DVD |
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Horse-Drawn Loose Haying DVD at the
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Deer
Lodge, Montana. This video
was filmed during the annual celebration for the G-K Ranch which at one time
was one of the largest cattle ranches in the west. Once a year the National
Park brings teamsters from around Montana to show how horses were used to mow, rake and stack
hay using a Beaverslide in the
early 1900's. Also included is a little history behind cattle ranching, grass land
management and
storing hay for the winter. 47 minutes on DVD
$19.95 + $6 s/h |
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Horse Drawn Plows and
Plowing Lynn Miller. Everything you have ever wanted to know
about this subject. Profusely illustrated. It’s another great book by this
author. 366 pages. Soft cover. 8 ½ X 11”
$32.95
+ $11 s/h |
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Horse-Drawn Tillage Tools. Discs, Harrows, Rollers, Cultivators &
More. Lynn Miller.
368 pages. 8 ½ X 11”
$32.95 Soft cover + $11 s/h
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The Horsedrawn Mower Book: Restoration &
Operation of McCormick #9 Mowers, Lynn Miller The title should tell
you all you need to know except that Mr. Miller has created another "gotta
have" book for people who are using the #9 mowers with their horses. How to
operate, upgrade, repair and maintain the mower. He also has chapters on the
John Deere and other mowers. Big 352 pages, 8
½ x 11" approx. Soft Cover. $32.95 + $11 s/h |
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The Horse in
the City Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr . In the 19th
Century urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not
only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires
but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and machine shops.
The authors examine how the horses were housed and fed and how workers bred,
trained, marketed, and employed their four-legged assets. Not omitting the
problems of waste removal and corpse disposal, they touch on the municipal
challenges of maintaining a safe and productive living environment for both
horses and people and the rise of organizations like the American Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 280 pages, Hardcover. 32
halftones, 11 line illustrations $50 |
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Implements for Farming with Horses & Mules. A Modern All-in-One Manual
Sam Moore. Valuable information on farming with horses and mules
using the equipment produced today - from tillage, planting & cultivating,
hay harvesting, and other harvesting equipment including binders, threshers,
combines, corn & potato harvesting machinery. Also Forecarts, spreaders and
farm vehicles. Full of color and black & white photos and diagrams. 8 ½ x
11" soft cover, 288 pages. If you are farming today with horses - you should
have this book! $38 +
$7 s/h |
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It’s Showtime,
A Beginner’s Guide to Showing Draft Horses. Robert Mischka 1998 This
book covers grooming, transporting, shoeing, braiding manes & tails, and
what the judge is looking for. 140 black & white photos. 128 pages.
Hardcover
$21.95 |
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Learning to Drive Multiple Hitches
Steve Bowers VHS only. This method is taught using the bicycle
training device to drive singles, pairs, three, four, five and six abreast.
Plans are included to build your own training device. 40 minutes. This video
is soon to retire and will not be reproduced.
$40 + $6 s/h |
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The Percheron Horse in America
Joseph Mischka. A documentation of the Percheron horse
in the history of America. 100 black & white photos. 179 pages.
7½ X 10”
$19.95 |
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Pictures from
the Farm, J. C. Allen & Sons. This book
records American farm life from 1900 to 1960 in B& W and Color photos. Soft
cover, 144 pages 8 ¾ x 11
¼" $19.95
Special price! Limited to stock on hand. |
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Selecting, Training, and
Using Draft Horses Merle Saxon A helpful booklet for newcomer
to draft horses. Black and white photos. 46 pages. 7 X 9”
$10.00 |
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The Shire Horse
A History of the Breed, the Society
and the Men. Keith Chivers. Forward by HRH Prince Phillip, Duke
of Edinburgh. The only book devoted to the history, commerce and social
condition of the Shire horse through the changing of times. If you love the
Shire horses and want to know the history - this book is for you. Hardcover with
dust cover, over 850 pages! It is big! 8
½"
x 9 ½"
Out of print. I might be able to find some copies if you want one. |
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So you want to Show Draft Horses Draft
Horse Journal A 44 page pamphlet explaining how to judge, show and care
for draft horses. Also shows how to braid manes and tails. 8
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X 11” This is going out of print very soon. $9.00 |
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A Teamster's View Steve Bowers
Steve has complied a collection of articles he has written about hooking and driving draft horses and light horses.
He shares his 30 years of training horses and 20 years of teaching about
driving in this informative book. He also produces a set of videos available
on this site as well.
$20.00
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Teaching Horses to Drive - a Ten
step Method, Doc Hammill. Gentle Training: Communicating in the
horse's own language makes sense to them. This DVD allows horses to feel
safe & comfortable which helps them succeed. 10 easy steps builds success
one step at a time to produce calm, comfortable, willing, dependable driving
horses, mules, ponies and donkeys. 2 DVDs - 3 ½ hours.
$89.95 -
DVD! |
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They Did It With Horses A collection of over 400 photos from the
early 1900s showing horses at work doing their many tasks. Hardcover. 8 ½ X 11”
$28.95 |
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This Was Wheat Farming, A
pictorial history of the farms and farmers of the Northwest who grow the
nation's wheat, Kirby Brumfield Lots of black and white photos
to depict the history of wheat, the mills, growers, binding, heading and
threshing, crewmen and women, sweep power, steam power, 32 horsepower
combined harvester, cost comparisons between tractor and horse farming and
more. 192 pages 8
½ x 11" soft cover. $19.99 |
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Training the Driving Horse DVD Steve Bowers A two tape set shows how Steve trains horses to
drive, single and as a team, starting with how to train a horse to lead so
the horse learns to respect and respond to the trainer. 110 minutes.
$60 + $7 s/h |
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Training Workhorses/
Training Teamsters
Lynn Miller The first part is on training and correcting problems. The
second part teaches the craft of driving. 352 pages. Soft cover 8 ½ X 11”
$32.95
+ $11 s/h |
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Work Horse Handbook:
2nd Edition Lynn Miller.
Detailed information on working and hitching draft horses from single to the
multi-hitches. Many diagrams and measurements on the equipment used, how to
run the lines and more. 366 pages, Soft cover. 8
½
X 11”
$ 32.95 + $11
s/h |
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Working Horses Charles
Philip Fox A great book loaded with over 300 historical photos showing how horses did everything that needed to
be done in the early 1900’s. 250 pages.
Hard cover with dust jacket. 8 ½ X 11”
$26.95 |
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