Horse Progress Days 2005 - Draft Animal Power Event

Horse Progress Days is an annual event that encourages and promotes the combination of animal power and the latest equipment innovations in an effort to support small scale farming and land stewardship. It shows that show Draft Animal Power is possible, practical, and profitable.

It is hosted by Sam Moore. Sam gives us a thorough tour of all of the equipment demonstrated and displayed at Horse Progress Days in 2005 held in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He explains the features of the implement in the static displays followed by film of it being demonstrated in the field with the power of a team of draft horses or mules.
Horse drawn equipment featured includes:

MANURE SPREADERS - large and small spreaders manufactured by:
Pequa, Lancaster manufacturing, EZ Spreader and H&S Manufacturing.

LOGGING EQUIPMENT - Horse Logger Brandt Ainsworth introduces two logging carts and explains how they work, pros and cons and some tips on horse logging. Carts manufactured by Forest Manufacturing and Farmer Brown's Plow Shop

PLOWING EQUIPMENT - 1-way and 2-way sulky plows, 2-way plows, 2 bottom plows, gang plow, walking plows, PTO driven, ground driven, refurbished, hydraulic, manufactured by:
White Horse Machine, Pioneer Equipment, Farmer Brown's Plow Shop, Byler Machine, I&J and a modified Oliver Tractor Plow.

SOIL TILLAGE EQUIPMENT - disc harrow, spring toothed harrow, rolling harrow, flip over transport disc, tillers, cultivators, walk behind cultivators, spike toothed harrow, manufactured by:
I&J, Pioneer Equipment, IVA Manufacturing, Groftdale (refurbished John Deere)

PRODUCE EQUIPMENT - plastic layers, water wheel transplanters, seed planters, roller sprayer, boom sprayers manufactured by:
Nolt's Produce, I&J, Pequa, Truax, Fisher Sprayer. IVA.

HAYING EQUIPMENT - basket mowers, conditioners, mower/conditioners, basket tedders, reel tedders, rotary tedders, wheel hay rakes, rotary hay rake, ground driven, round balers, square balers, mini baler, bale loaders, wrappers and haulers, PTO driven, and ground driven.
manufactured by: I&J, Esch Manufacturing, Peachy Mower, New Idea, Morra, Pequa, Krone, Vermeer, Miller, New Holland, Brandywine Welding, Innovation Agrico, Trail Farm Supply, Anderson.
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EUROPEAN OUTLOOK
A word from Charlie Pinney of Wales, UK. who farms 30 acres of mountain land. He shows us his forecart with an engine drive that can be hooked up to the forecart for jobs needing the power or removed for jobs requiring only hydraulics or horse power along.

Barbara Corson from Pennsylvania shows us a Norwegian harness
9custom made by Olaf Nyby) on her horse. We see close ups of how it is worn, all the parts and the differences from an English harness. When drives her horse around the round pen so we can watch it in action.

Erhard Schroll, editor of the German magazine Starke Pferde explains that he helps organize a German Horse Progress Days and attends this event to exchange ideas with the US organizers.

Finally, we show some footage of the "Parade of Breeds" which includes Belgians, Percherons, Fjords, Haflingers, Spotted drafts, Blue Roan Gypsy Vanners, Clydesdales, Shires, mules and more.

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