Our draft horse, Soot, loves pulling the extra Mercedes Benz tire around. This is our first step to teaching him to pull a wagon and, now that we're in Idaho, a sleigh. Soot loves it! He has been a little antsy the last few weeks, but does listen when we work him each time. Last weekend, we grabbed the tire and took it to the round pen to have him pull it. He was then calm when we took him in there. It was pretty interesting!
We lunged him a little while the other one of us got the tire rigged up with the ropes. Then we put on the surcingle and lunged him for a few more minutes. He then stood calmly while we got him hooked up. Right now we are still not hooking the tire directly to the surcingle. That way we can let go and it doesn't chase him around the arena. Well, we think he's ready to go to the next step. We're excited about that!
Our dad was trying to remove a weed from the field with his small tractor and some chains. He would back the tractor up then gas it forward to pull the dead rosebush out, but it would just stop the tractor. This was going on close to the round pen and we could almost hear Soot say, "hey, do you need some help with that?"
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