Horses
 

1908 San Francisco had a disposable society, but unlike today's planned obsolescent disposable consumer goods, men and horses were used up and discarded

Moving a big, very heavy house, built of much heavier timbers and lumber, on SF's hills, was a monumental task. Men jacking the house with hand operated screw jacks, and cribbing... no mamby pamby computer controlled, self leveling hydraulics. Then just two horses turning winches to move it forward. The horses probably had to carry the gear to the site, also. :dedhorse:

Wow. Cool pic. People and horses getting it done. <insert old man philosophizing here>

Nice!

And it's just squeezing by the wires.

What? A Percheron/Pony cross. :eek: I hope the sire was the pony.

I just noticed this line.

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That's kinda weird.

At first I though they'd copied a two page picture out of a book, but it stops at the eve and the picture on either side isn't distorted.
Then at the eve there's a jog so I figured it was a shadow of the jog down the side, but why would it extend into the street?
Then I decided it's 3foots fault and he screwed up when he was a photo lab trainee.

He should tighten up a li'l bit.

Does someone know where this house is today?

Not a clue, not even if it still exists.

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OMG, Brownie murdered the white colt and made a cape from it.:eek:

Yo dawg, I heard you like to ride a horse when you ride a horse, so I painted a horse on your horse...

:lol2:

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A horse with a drinking problem is heart breaking.

you can lead a horse to water, but he'll just play in the sprinklers.

Horses facial expressions.

A TV ad for the '3' mobile phone network. Made in a location where there is no phone coverage. ;)

I suspect there was some CGI involved. Possibly alcohol too.

http://s29.postimg.org/sv481ls3b/Liquid_Lunch.jpg

One of the Fullers Brewery Shire Horses has a liquid lunch at the British Beer Festival in London.

A number of breweries still have Shire Horse teams for PR and advertising purposes.
Most participate in the Heavy Horse musical drive at the Horse of the Year Show.

Hell yeah, if I spent all day in that harness I'd want a drink or two. After all, beer is made from what? Horse food. ;)

All's well that ends out of the well.

From Cutaway World.

The University of Toronto has digitized the official report on the 5th Olympiad in 1912, Sweden. It's pretty comprehensive at 1117 pages, with pictures of all the big shots, pictures of the facilities, the equipment, and athletes. Even the archery targets, shower rooms, the lady swimmers in their scandalous bathing attire, and some of the horses, which after all, is what this thread is about.

The Piebald mare had twins... but one was a runt. ;)

Working horses stop for a shot and a beer, in Malden, MA, ca 1906.

cool!

This is the same intersection today. Not much looks familiar.
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But if you go down 50 feet to peek around the tree, you see that this building is still there.
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If I ran the historical society there, I'd totally put up a plaque with that old photo so you could compare old and new. I wouldn't even ask anyone permission. I'd just do it in broad daylight.

Thanks for the flash forward! Notice trolley is long gone, the streets are comparatively narrow, although the sidewalks are wide as a result of urban renewal money. I lived in Medford, just west of here, when I worked at Tufts University. Malden was considerably different, although no horse water trough.
If Maldenites... Maldonians... them, want to go to Boston, as many commuters do, they are slaves of the MBTA, which used to be the MTA. I think they changed the name after what happened to poor Charlie.;)

The Ferrier...

It's farrier here. Interestingly, the American usage is closer to the original, which is French (from ferrous for iron.)
As in chemin de fer - the traditional French for railway.

Baby steps doesn't mean left behind. :D

Nice Brookie, that's a good horsey, easy boy...

Jumping Jehosaphat!!!!

Look. At. The. Neck. On. That. Hoss.

:eek:

yeah... but look at the wabbit on this hoss. and the neck, don't forget the neck too.

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They do kinda favor each other, neigh?

The opposite extreme... would of saved this for a Friday IOtD but you bastards would have eaten the poor little guy. :haha:

But there's more meat on the hoss in post 35 ...


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Biggest Horse I've been near. These are Percherons. hard to tell just how huge they are until I pan back and you can see jinx next to them

Percherons, Belgians, and Clydesdales, The Eagles need that tonnage. :haha:

http://s22.postimg.org/k1pmyj775/Horse_Ploughing.jpg

OMG, they're so beautifully matched I want to squee. When I see pictures like this my heart wants to move to the country and lead a cinematic life of honest sweat, in a working relationship with these gentle giants. But after a couple minutes the brain kicks in with a word from our sponsor. Do you want to live that rural dream? Have you forgotten getting up at 5AM, in a 10 below blizzard, to trudge to the barn where they're waiting impatiently for breakfast?
Want to roll over and catch another 40 winks? The tractor don't care, the truck don't care, the animals care. Sigh, the bucolic life isn't, but the horses are.

As heavy horses have made several appearances in this thread, I thought that this picture might be of passing interest.

The shoe on the left is from a Shire and that on the right is from my old horse.

He was a fairly big lad and wasn't exactly small in the hoof department, but his shoe pales into insignificance next to the Shire's.

Incidentally, I've never met a farrier who didn't wear steel toe capped boots. :)

http://s1.postimg.org/essr29f5r/Shire_v_Hunter.jpg

Anyone who's spent time around horses has had their foot stepped on and farriers spend most of their time vulnerable. The worst part is it's not like them walking by and stepping on you, usually they are changing position and stand on your foot, so you can't do anything until you convince them to move. http://cellar.org/2015/banghead.gif

I see the heavy shoe still has one caulk(or cork, depending on where you're from), but none left, or never were, on the smaller shoe.

That's a view of the top of the shoes but the clips don't show up well enough to determine that.

Neither shoe had caulking. They were 'plain vanilla' as it were.

Different views of the same shoes:

http://s22.postimg.org/rc8z1qovl/Shire.jpg

http://s24.postimg.org/x2318czid/Hunter.jpg

OK, just toe clips, thanks. As Ed Sullivan would say, that's a really big shoe. :haha:

No pics suitable for posting, but...

Today marks the anniversary of history's last successful cavalry charge.

The Battle of Beersheba in WW I, 1917

Successful? I wonder how the horses felt about that. :dedhorse:

Well said,xoB.

Until horses write ...

Ffs.

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:lol2:

That is cute !

that's an awesome Halloween costume. And you could even put saddle bags on the pony to hold the candy.

FTFY


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You've seen pictures of the winning race car drivers getting crazy with champagne. Prince of Penzance won too. ;)

Waaaaiiiiiiittt for it:

That was a fart?

I've heard the occasional horse fart. That one sounded sorta human.