When Brad Johnson and Derek O’Toole talk about horsepower, they’re talking about actual horse power. The two men are co-owners of Third Branch Horse Logging, of Braintree, which uses draft horses for ...

Healing Harvest foundation wants to make money and improve the forest at the same time. In his mind, Jason Rutledge sees the future of logging, and it’s the horse. Rutledge says horse logging can help ...

Oregon’s last horse logger and a family of foresters look to the future by carrying on a legacy of the past. Jamming a metal skidding tong into a log, Roger Daugherty draws the slack from his driving ...

The dynamics of the 21st century global marketplace can be found everywhere, even a remote mountainside in the far reaches of western Virginia, where Ben Harris and his crew are harvesting large tulip ...

Manly Stanley and High Falutin aren’t exactly light on their feet. But their horseshoe-clad hooves were less damaging Thursday to a sensitive historic garden site that is undergoing restoration on ...

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - For students at the Hiland Hall School, forestry came to life Friday in a demonstration of logging work with two full-size black Percheron horses: Belle and Bright. Jared ...

HERMANSVILLE, Mich. — Logging is becoming increasingly mechanized, but a Hermansville man is happy to use horses for his year-round operation. John Boyd relies on horse-powered logging to manage a ...

Heavy horses are being used to extract timber in electricity network projects in what is said to be the first time since the network was modernised. Three horses are now based in Aberdeenshire to help ...

Third Branch Horse Logging was started October 2018. Both Johnson and O’Toole had been working with draft horses for farming. When they formed their company they shifted their focus to using horses in ...