What did you do today?

[Charlie Horse]

Wow all this talk about horse and goat driving makes me want to get back into it.  I'm not up to speed on it since my neighbor trained my horses and has the carts.  I need to build myself a couple carts-- Since I'm the prepper type it has been on my list forever.  



Here are some pictures from one year ago of my neighbor borrowing Shoney D. Pony for her 'troubled youth' horse experience classes she used to run.  I came home from a day of working on cars and was greeted with this.  Apparently Shoney is a natural.  She was professionally trained for riding by a cowboy and his kid, and was easily converted into a cart horse by the neighbor-- And that really makes more sense since she's so fat (Welsh-- has a neck like a stallion and no withers) and hard to keep a saddle on and of course I'm to heavy to ride her myself.  



My Morgan Mare-ilyn was once trained for pulling.  I'd want to re-train her though since its been a while.  I'm not sure if she'd work for a cart since she's now blind in one eye and tends to drift to one side if she's not following another horse while I ride hehe.  May not matter with a cart though, who knows.  She's beautiful though-- She's got that classic morgan look and shes' built for trotting.  She's one half Lambert and the rest is mostly old US Cavalry stock.  

I have the book "Drive On" which seems to be a comprehensive book about driving.  My harness is crap though.  Got it on ebay and the leather ended up dry and ripped too easily.  Honestly I have forgotten how all of that rigging worked anyhow.

I'd like to do a goat cart.  I know Shelby or Woodstock would be perfect for it.   Vincent may or may not when he grows up-- He likes to lean into pressure like its a competition thing.  A goat cart would be easy to build, too.  I weigh 210lbs though so I'd have to balance it just so.  For goats, isnt it pretty hard to get them to pull side by side?  I can see a lot of trouble if you dont have two goats that are friends (rare).  They line up pretty well though on the trail so it seems like that'd be the way to do a two goat cart.  I assume though you'd need a 4 wheel cart to make that work.  Perhaps it'd be easier to stick to a single goat.