E-mail updates
Follow on Twitter
Subscribe to RSS
Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images
Simon Lenihan, a full time commercial horse logger, removes a Scots Pine tree from the Balmoral Estate with Sultan De Le Campagne, a 15 year old Belgian Ardennes horse, on Dec. 11 in Balmoral, Scotland.
The Prince of Wales is the Patron of The British Horse Loggers, an association that works to promote horse logging and support professional horse loggers. The horses working at Balmoral are being used in place of large timber machines to minimize any damage to vegetation, soils and water-tables.
-- Getty Images
Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images
Simon Lenihan, a full time commercial horse logger, removes a Scots Pine tree from the Balmoral Estate with Salome Du Pre Renier, a 4 year old Belgian Ardennes horse, on Dec. 11 in Balmoral, Scotland.
Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images
Simon Lenihan, a full time commercial horse logger, removes a Scots Pine tree from the Balmoral Estate with Sultan De Le Campagne a 15 year old Belgian Aldennes horse on Dec. 11 in Crathie, Aberdeenshire.
Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images
Simon Lenihan, a full time commercial horse logger, removes a Scots Pine tree from the Balmoral Estate with Sultan De Le Campagne, a 15 year old Belgian Ardennes horse, on Dec. 11 in Balmoral, Scotland.
Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images
Simon Lenihan, a full time commercial horse logger, removes a Scots Pine tree from the Balmoral Estate with Salome Du Pre Renier, a 4 year old Belgian Ardennes horse, on Dec. 11 in Balmoral, Scotland.
Leave a Comment:
Newer is not always better. What magnificent horses! I would image, though the work is hard, there is a rhymn to the land, a closeness one feels. That doesn't happen with commercial equipment. As well as an appreciation for the beauty all about one. It would to wonderful, though I imagine impractical, to see the same thing done in American forests. Where huge tracts of trees are cut down. These woods are on estates owned by wealthy and royals. Hence the great care, in eliminating and thinning to keep the woods healthy.
oh it doe's happen in America as well, I know of a few horse loggers here in Montana and I know there are others around as well. And like the story above, it is a niche market providing a service to mostly private landowners who need some thinning done and want a small footprint left, The Forest Service has also from time to time hired horse loggers to work in sensitive areas where machinery would leave too big an impact such as removing dead timber from around campgrounds and such.