As workers go, Travis Thorson and his buddies, Mike and Prince, are a rare breed. Just ask the stream of gawkers watching them toil along Kitchen Road in Bay County's Fraser Township this week. "We've ...
VICTOR, Mont. - It would be hard to calculate what an important role horses played in Montana's logging industry. Long before mechanized tools, loggers depended on horses to do the heavy lifting. In ...
Manly Stanley and High Falutin aren’t exactly light on their feet. But their horseshoe-clad hooves were less damaging Thursday to a sensitive historic garden site that is undergoing restoration on ...
Nathan Yoder fastened a chain around a 10-foot section of a log from a tree that had just been felled. With a tug on the leather reins, he spurred the team of Belgian draft horses into motion, ...
Logging is some of the oldest work around Northern New York. Many communities around the North Country were established around logging camps in... Mar 20, 2018 — Logging is some of the oldest work ...
King County ecologist Lisa Brandt had a problem. To build a habitat for salmon breeding, she needed to move more than 30 logs through a densely wooded area along the Snoqualmie River channel, but she ...
Ted and Petey, two of Carl Russell’s 14-year-old draft horses Credit: Ken Picard Carl Russell wraps one end of a steel chain around a felled tree, then backs his 3,200-pound “power unit” — aka Ted and ...
CORVALLIS, Mont. - A family in Corvallis has started sawing the logs they skidded with horses this past winter. NBC Montana brought you the first part of this story a few weeks ago. The Plochers used ...
This is what work looks like. Not the eye-glazing key pecking that most of us call work. Not the endless sitting and clicking and tapping. This is work: a man and two huge horses, moving trees. A huge ...