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<blockquote data-quote="yellowbelly" data-source="post: 7186952" data-attributes="member: 42308"><p>I guess, like most things agricultural, it depends on where you are from.</p><p>In Lincolnshire, the thing that the 'arras hook on to, is called a baulk or sometimes a stretcher.</p><p>Round here a whippletree or a swingletree or a heeltree is the wooden bar that the trace chains of a horse's harness hook on to (to stop them catching their back legs)...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]914443[/ATTACH] .............[ATTACH=full]914446[/ATTACH]</p><p>..................................................................................heeltree^.......^baulk................................</p><p></p><p>Baulks came in different lengths - for ploughing, tatie rows and beet rows (so the 'osses walked between the rows, Sort of early variable track width <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />)</p><p>They also came with an offset pulling point so you could use a cob (smaller horse) in a pair with a Shire - the cob had the longest pulling point so that the bigger horse was doing more of the work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yellowbelly, post: 7186952, member: 42308"] I guess, like most things agricultural, it depends on where you are from. In Lincolnshire, the thing that the 'arras hook on to, is called a baulk or sometimes a stretcher. Round here a whippletree or a swingletree or a heeltree is the wooden bar that the trace chains of a horse's harness hook on to (to stop them catching their back legs)... [ATTACH type="full" width="157px"]914443[/ATTACH] .............[ATTACH type="full" width="177px"]914446[/ATTACH] ..................................................................................heeltree^.......^baulk................................ Baulks came in different lengths - for ploughing, tatie rows and beet rows (so the 'osses walked between the rows, Sort of early variable track width :)) They also came with an offset pulling point so you could use a cob (smaller horse) in a pair with a Shire - the cob had the longest pulling point so that the bigger horse was doing more of the work. [/QUOTE]
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