the beginning of the end.

[bigpaul]

BIL used Shires or "carthorses" as they were called in those days, we could use bullocks as an oxen substitute, but I reckon as we'll probably be "farming" more in the smallholding way of things we're not talking the huge great ploughs you see behind tractors these days, we're talking more of a small,simple, single bladed type, you see donkeys (or more likely Mules)pulling these in the far east. they use donkeys for a lot of things in the third world.

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mind you we wont be ploughing an acre a day with a donkey!(which is what a good ploughman could do with a decent pair of horses).