Clydesdale for the log hauling?
Correct. My wife grew up on a horse farm, and her parents bred 3 types of horses. So far my wife only breeds quarter horses. But she trains all types, teaches lessons, boards dozens of horses, and she does trail rides to. I prefer bigger horses, so I have 2 Tennessee walkers, and 4 clydesdales. My big boy is 8, and weighs 2200 lbs, he is a friendly giant, my walkers are also very friendly. Then i have 3 filly clydes, aged 1, 2, and 3, I've had them all since they were about 5 to 7 months old. My 1 year old, she is halter broke to be lead around some, my 2 year old is well ground worked, and I put a saddle on her sometimes to get used to it, but i don't ride her yet, too young. My 3 year old i do ride some, but not too much, I don't want to work her till she is 4 on long rides, or tough going. At age 5 i start them pulling a wagon, and skidding logs, but not huge logs till age 6. I actually am teaching my walkers to pull a small sleigh, and skid small logs to. My 3 year old, is most likely pregnant, or i am hoping so. So far I have bought all 6 of my horses from various people, but I think that a walker/clyde cross would be amazing, the best of both. So when my 3 year old was in heat recently, i locked her up with my stallion walker. She is old enough to breed now at 3, and my stallions have both been studs before. When my mare walker next goes into heat, i plan to lock her up with my stallion clydesdale. I never even rode a horse before meeting my wife, but i enjoy it. I'm learning how to break them, train them, lead trail rides, and i teach beginners lessons. 99% of the students i teach are girls, and 99% of them are very nice. Once students learn basics, they get to do some fun trail riding to, I lead one of those trail rides today, 7 girls age 8 to 14, and me went for a longer than planned ride, because we were having fun, so our 80 minute ride was 2 hours. I brought 4 of my horses along just to go with us, they followed me perfectly although loose, and that was the ride I took my wife's trick horse on, and rode her. I tossed a pad and saddle on my 2 year old that trip, not to ride her, just get her used to the saddle. let my stallions both come along as well. My walker is used to leading so it was a good lesson for him to have to follow today. Horses have an order they prefer to walk in, but its bad to let them always do so, so today I took the lead on Princess, had my 2 year old next, my big boy, and then Sam my stallion walker who prefers to lead, he acted up a bit the first 20 minutes, then settled in....the girls all followed, and I put the best rider of the 7 at the back to ride sweep, she was on her own horse, a spirited stallion quarter. He was snorting and spitting the entire ride, i could hear him, because he was last and mad about it, and also we walked most of the time, and a little galloping, he wanted to run fast and pass everyone, but I instructed her to hold him back, to teach him patience and self control. Once he did start running so i wheeled around and blocked him. He is a lot bigger than Princess, but he wasn't willing to fight her or me...for 10 minutes we switched horses, and i had her lead....i made that stubborn beast stay last in line, and I used some muscle on him to get him to understand that ai was the alpha, not him. He was much better after that, horses need to know that the rider is the alpha not them, especially horses like him.