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Offline bigdave

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Not dogs but good friends anyway
« on: April 22, 2009, 12:43:03 PM »
For all you horse and mule people out there. My family and I stumbled upon the Colfax Plowing Bee. I had to stop and take a couple pics.

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Re: Not dogs but good friends anyway
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2009, 12:44:46 PM »
couple more.

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Re: Not dogs but good friends anyway
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2009, 02:35:36 PM »
Very Kewl Pic's...  Thanks for posting them. Damn fine looking team's
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Re: Not dogs but good friends anyway
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2009, 03:26:06 PM »
 :'( :'(  I wanted to go soooo bad.  Love them Persheron Mules in the first photo.  Thanks for posting those!!
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Re: Not dogs but good friends anyway
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2009, 10:05:50 AM »
Thanks for posting. I used to go to the threshing bees with my Dad. Love the old tractors and mule teams. Both my Grandpa's ran horse teams. Mom's dad in Missouri on a poor farm during depression and Dad's Dad in the Horse Heaven Hills.

If anyone gets out to Pomeroy, they have a really nice farm museum. Usually by appointment only but, the people there are really nice. My brother had an antique tractor he donated this winter. It had been decently restored. He couldn't sell it for much so, donated it and got a better tax break.

Any old cool farm stuff you have laying around, they would love to add it to the collection. One guys' Grandpa had a horse drawn mail route. They have his Grandpa's original mail buggy complete with skis for the snow in the winter. Also have a great collection of brands from WA, OR, and ID.

If you are passing through it is in the fairgrounds in a new barn near the rodeo arena.
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Re: Not dogs but good friends anyway
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2009, 10:16:22 AM »
Great post and pics.  Probably only a few on here that did that for REALS.   Slenk, Idabooner....

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Re: Not dogs but good friends anyway
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2009, 10:22:30 AM »
Some old timers I've talked to said they really miss the old time way of farming. Others say that they spent so much time looking at the backend of a mule growing up the never want to see it again. It looks like really hard work that was VERY time consuming. I still like to see it done though.

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Re: Not dogs but good friends anyway
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2009, 04:50:39 PM »
Those were the good old days.  Only thing good about them is we don't have to do it that way any more. In real life it wasn't that much fun.  Thanks much for posting the pictures, stirred some memories.

 


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