Anybody use there mules or horses to do draft work ? Post some picture's.

Mine are saddle or pack animals.
But I do get them out all year round to keep them exercised

Nice!

I use my high dollar team roping horses like any ranch horse..I work cattle, hunt of them, do whatever needs to be done and more..Most of our family horses are required to multi task. rope calves, team rope head or heel, maybe run barrels, drag calves to the branding crew, in other words do whatever needs to be done..Its never hurt them as far as I know, and it makes them worth more money, and makes them a better horse...I learned this long ago in my misspent youth when I worked for EP Eppenauer, a cutting horse man who had 4 world champion cutting horses, Ceasers Pistol, Pistol Hancock, George Hancock and Bar Hug. In the summer months I worked on his big ranch in the Davis Mountains of Texas..He would bring those $100,000 dollar horses to the ranch and tell me to ride the crap out of them, use them like any other ranch horse..I remember being scared to death that I would cripple one, he said if you do, you do, don't worry about it...those were not spoiled horses and they could all do a hard days work in the mountains and in Texas there are few trails to ride in the Big Bend country.

Beautiful time of the year for sure. Nice string of critters.

Mine just do sanity maintenance. They keep me from going crazy.

I adhere to the Buster Welch method; use them for whatever needs to be done. Like Mr. Atkinson said above, makes them a better horse.

Does packing out elk count?





Or dragging calves? This was a few years ago at her first branding. She's drug many more since.

I would require my best rope horse to pack out an elk if the occasion occurred, and I didn't have a pack horse..I have packe out a whole deer in my lap on him several times.

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Originally posted by RichardAustin:
I adhere to the Buster Welch method; use them for whatever needs to be done. Like Mr. Atkinson said above, makes them a better horse.

I watched Buster put Little Peppy in a gooseneck trailer loose with a bunch of cows. Somebody asked him if that didn't worry him. He responded: "I use him just like any other horse I ride...that's what made him great."

Yep, any horses around our place get used for everything and have to be "well rounded". Even back when my wife was doing a lot of showing and we were hauling to both open and breed shows, those horses got rode out plenty and used for ranch work and hunting. It was a sanity break for them.

Nothing more useless than an 'arena horse' that loses its marbles when taken away from the security.

Bottom line is wet saddle blankets rule. Abuse does not. Use them hard, but don't hurt them, make the roping box and the mountains a fun place to be for you and your horse.

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Bottom line is wet saddle blankets rule. Abuse does not. Use them hard, but don't hurt them, make the roping box and the mountains a fun place to be for you and your horse.

I like the way you put that.
I don't want my horses to fear my hands.

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Originally posted by ledvm:

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Originally posted by RichardAustin:
I adhere to the Buster Welch method; use them for whatever needs to be done. Like Mr. Atkinson said above, makes them a better horse.

I watched Buster put Little Peppy in a gooseneck trailer loose with a bunch of cows. Somebody asked him if that didn't worry him. He responded: "I use him just like any other horse I ride...that's what made him great."

Typical Buster. Thanks for sharing that, don't know how I missed it before. If that man had gone past the 6th grade he'd of been President and we'd be better for it.

Correction Richard, if he never did a day in school we'd been better off for it! What we have had for the last two terms is a idiot that ate all his books.