Horse Progress Days 2010 - Draft Animal Power Event

Horse Progress Days 2010 - Innovations in Draft Animal Power Horse Progress Days is an annual event that encourages and promotes the combination of animal power and the latest equipment innovations in an effort to support small scale farming and land stewardship. It shows that show Draft Animal Power is possible, practical, and profitable. Sam Moore narrates this episode of Horse Progress Days in 2010 held in Topeka, Indiana. He explains the features of each implement or machine int he static displays. There is abundant footage of draft horse and mule teams demonstrating each implement which gives us a front row seat at the show. The beautiful and powerful teams of Belgians, Percherons, Fjords, Haflingers, mules and more are a highlight! Dale Stoltzfus starts the show explaining the origins of Horse Progress Days which was a vision of Elmer Lapp of Kinders, PA. John Deere, Oliver and McCormick-Deering had ceased production of horse drawn implements. Elmer knew that many people were manufacturing these in their own shops and wanted them to be demonstrated for people who would want to use them. The increase in emphasis on sustainable farming practices and locally grown produce has helped the make this event grow with each passing year Sprinkled throughout the show is footage of the many things to do at HPD including crowd shots, food venders, petting zoo and more. Maynard and Joyce Failing of Carson city Nevada and Will Beaty of Ellijay, Georgia are interviewed about their experiences at HPD. The show is divided into categories depending on the usage of the equipment. Throughout the show Sam shows forecarts are used in assisting the draft horse teams. These are the forecart manufacturers featured: Pioneer Equipment, White Horse Machine, Miller Repair Shop, I&J, Farm Boy, Trail Farm Supply, Gateway, EZ Trail Hogback. I&J had a ground driven PTO cart in 2 sizes that Sam explains in detail. SPREADERS - manure and liquid spreaders are featured by the following manufacturers: Frontier, Pequa, Conestoga, DH Welding, EZ Spreader, Lancaster Spreader, Master Equipment. SOIL TILLAGE EQUIPMENT - EZ Trail-5-hoe walk behind cultivator, spike toothed harrow, cultimulcher, mower for between rows of vineyard or berry farm. DeKorne -6' disc DH Welding - chisel plow Ugandan Walking plow Powerline Equipment- double disc spike toothed roller Farm Boy Mfg-tiller caddy with Maschio tiller Beiler Welding-cultimulcher with tines and rollers Esch - no-till drill Groftdale Machine I&J- walking plow, potato plow, 3 point plow, green crop roller, green crop roller, wide cultivator, 5 how riding cultivator, walk behind cultivator Pioneer Equipment- walking plow, gang plow, Foot lift sulky plow KVA bottom, spring toothed harrow with crumble roller, crumble roller, spike toothed harrows, 6-foot blade, Miller Repair Shop - wide cultimulcher, MIller Repair Shop - disc cultimulcher with tines and roller. Shipshe Farm Supply-cultimulcher White Horse Machine - plow, 2-way plow, subsoiler, 2-shank subsoiler, PRODUCE EQUIPMENT - EZ Trail Hogback-raised bed plastic mulch later, water wheel planter, extended boom sprayer Pequa-no-till planter Clearspring Welding-boom sprayer, raised bed mulch layer Vicon - pendulum mulch spreader IVA-field sprayer with hydraulic boom Nolt- raised bed plastic mulch later, water wheel transplanter Evener Shop-funnel spreader Fisher-hand sprayer, boom sprayer HAYING EQUIPMENT General Repair Shop-rotary disc mower I&J-9-foot trailer mower, Galfre 4 basket rotary tedder, rotary rake, rotary side delivery rake Mullets Machine-McCormick Deering reconditioned #9 Mower Topeka New Holland 13 ft discbine, haybine, Side delivery rake, crop cutter round baler John Deer Model 935 rotary dic cutter Sitrex-4 rotar hay tedder Pequa-4 rotar turbo tedder, haymaker rotary hay rake Krone-Swadro rotary rake H&S- folding rake with center kicker wheel Sunset Equipment-hay basket with new Holland square baler Hesston-square baler Case IH-round baler Crystal Bend- round bale lifter and carrier Kemco-hay accumulator for skid loader, in line bale wrapper Master Equipment-bale wrapper This video is available for purchase at http://www.mischka.com/shop/product.p... Watch all of our Horse Progress Days Shows on our Rural Heritage Channel! Also visit https://horseprogressdays.com to get history, the latest information, photo galleries, exhibitor information and more.