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three horse neck yoke

Draft Animal Power – Draft animals and sustainable land stewardship › Forum › Equipment Category › Equipment › three horse neck yoke

This topic contains 6 replies, has 3 voices, and was last updated by  Donn Hewes 4 years, 8 months ago.

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  • June 16, 2014 at 4:44 am #83617

    Donn Hewes
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    I was never really happy with the solid three horse neck yoke. If the evener can move the neck yoke should too. I had one horse that was coming unhooked. Here are three pictures of my newest version. No good pictures while they were moving as I could get in front of them! I think it worked well. I see a couple little thingsI would do different if I was rebuilding it, but will likely ted hay with it all summer.

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    June 16, 2014 at 6:48 am #83622

    shoffman
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    does it work well for backing up, too? I guess it’s no different than a standard evener in that respect but I’m envisioning a scenario where your middle horse gets pinched (but I guess line pressure would keep them even enough when backing so that it’s not a problem). Nice design overhaul, regardless.

    June 16, 2014 at 7:43 am #83623

    Donn Hewes
    Keymaster

    Hi Scott, the ratio of the long to the short bar on each side means that each animal is holding roughly (not exactly) the same amount. They can back up together. One of the features of this design is that there is room for the middle horse to be and few inches in front or behind, without weighting part or all of the system. With no jockey the center horse also gets that room as well.

    With Lady in the middle she walked sightly in front of Connie and Polly, while we worked. I would have liked to gotten off and seen what that looked like, but I was alone. Next I will try Connie in the middle as she won’t walk up on anyone!

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by  Donn Hewes.
    June 16, 2014 at 8:51 pm #83629

    carl ny
    Participant

    Looks good,any idea how you would use that design for belly backers??

    carl

    June 17, 2014 at 4:50 am #83630

    Donn Hewes
    Keymaster

    I should have said in the first post this was a system for D rings with three abreast. For other harnesses I have always been relatively happy with a two horse neck yoke and an offset tongue. Using a two pole system with three horses and other harnesses would create it own set of difficulties. I am not sure how I deal with that.

    June 17, 2014 at 7:19 pm #83634

    carl ny
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    Donn, Just a thought to throw out there. Take the baby yokes off the ends and put one of them up side down in the middle. Would it work??????

    carl

    June 17, 2014 at 7:33 pm #83635

    Donn Hewes
    Keymaster

    Carl, I don’t see why you couldn’t make a version of this that would work with a side backer or other harness. It would just take a little fiddling. Donn

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