We love our Clydesdale Big Lad and his mate Freddy but like everyone else in this Company he just has to pull his weight. This winter, instead of just standing around and looking pretty, he’s been hard at work with the rest of us.
In September along with his two legged Team Mates Max, Ethel and Nathan he’s been working across Sheffield’s Woodlands as part of the planned woodland management programme.
Felling unwanted timber in steeply sloping woods is one thing, extracting the timber in a way that doesn’t damage the precious understory vegetation is quite a different matter. But that’s where traditional horse logging with Heavy Horses such as Big Lad and Freddy prove their value.
They get into areas that no tractor could get to and instead of the devastation caused by just one day tractor work a whole season of hoof prints are hardly noticeable. Just one month now to go to finish the last wood and he can come back to enjoying his Spring Holidays
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