Adding to the Queenie
story, I remember we shared her with Uncle Joe. He used her for skidding
logs also. I don't know how we transported her, maybe she was just walked
over. Queenie never liked getting the harness put on. I remember
her trying to take a bite out of dad's shoulder as he harnessed her. She
knew what was coming.
I spend a quite a bit
of time looking at her backside. We used her to pull trees out of the
woods. Dad would cut down a tree and I would hook it up to the harness
and off we would go to the landing. I would hang on the reins as long as
it could, but it was hard to keep pace with the tree banging along the
ground. I usually let go of the reins and she would be waiting at
the landing for me to unhitch the tree. Back we would go for another
tree. She was really powerful and would almost be down on her front knees
to get more weight into the harness.
I also remember the
tree cutting event with Joanie. We kept asking, do we have a cord
yet. We didn't have a chain saw so used a swede saw to cut the tree
(balsam) down and limb it out with an axe. I remember dad hiring
Adrian Vandevort who had a chain saw to cut the trees into 8 foot
lengths. Dennis
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