Horse Logging Hardwoods during Vermont Winter @ Rugged Ridge Forest w/ Amish Bred Percheron Crosses

Описание: Join us in our forest as we utilize our percheron standardbred cross horses to extract beech trees from our maple sugarbush!

And we greatly appreciate your support by ordering some of our wood-fired, organic, pure Vermont Maple Syrup from https://ruggedridgeforest.com/

Index:
Intro: 00:00
Philosophy and Some Simple Pulls: 00:50
Some More Challenging and Complex Pulls: 09:47
Conclusion: 19:37

Hilde is our 10 year old Amish bred Standardbred Percheron Cross. She came to us as a 7 year old, broke every which way to ride and drive. We later matched her with Hugo, our 3.5 year Standardbred Percheron who we purchased at 2 years old and have completely trained to ride and drive on the farm. Check out more of their story by enjoying more of our content!

On this logging job, we are logging about seven acres of very steep and rocky mountain side (Rugged Ridge... if you will ; ) to improve the land for maple syrup and sap collection. We just wanted to let a little more sun hit our maples and remove some of the diseased beech from the stand. This allows our maples more access to sun, soil, and water which should lead to increased sugar content and volume. Additionally, this firewood will be used to either process maple syrup or heat homes in our community.

We also utilize heavy equipment to log, however when the circumstances are right, nothing does a better job than the horses. This stand is about half a mile from our landing and very tight with regeneration, steep and stony; therefore we just got the logs out of the woods to the logging road before calling in the skidder to take it the last leg.

We take a ton of pride in our process and the quality of our wood-fired maple syrup and the forest that produces it. We really hope you enjoy this tour of our farm/forest and fall in love with our horses.