When Brad Johnson and Derek O’Toole talk about horsepower, they’re talking about actual horse power. The two men are co-owners of Third Branch Horse Logging, of Braintree, which uses draft horses for ...

At 8 o’clock in the morning, June 28, 1921, thousands of farmers and onlookers held their breaths as the great National Tractor Farming Demonstration and Show began. On one side of the 640-acre ...

Often, horse logging occurs in the winter when a layer of snow on the ground makes skidding logs easier. Learn the “forestry” definition in renewable terms. Modern logging with horses is the right ...

Oregon’s last horse logger and a family of foresters look to the future by carrying on a legacy of the past. Jamming a metal skidding tong into a log, Roger Daugherty draws the slack from his driving ...