pluoghing land

[BDG]

Couple of things on what has been posted:

- You would not yolk horses to pull anything, you would use a collar - simply because with a collar, your are moving the energy from the animal where it has the best bone structure to take it from. A yolk on a horse would restrict its breathing.

- Growing things post SHTF - do we want grains? Well, they are damn useful for animal feed, for feeding me? I dare say I could live without them as food, but as beer? We are going to have to grow some, and to grow grains, best way is to plough the land, disc it and roll the seed in.

Would you want to hand dig a large patch of land, trample it, broadcast seed and take a hand rake to it? Keep in mind how long it would take to hand dig that patch of land you are not productive doing other things.

- Horses - you could plough with any type of horse and get the job done to an extent. To what extent depends on the breed.

- I would look to use oxen. As was asked, do they exist in the UK, oxen are just cattle that have been trained to work. You could use any cattle you liked and train it.