And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
The original units that made “horsepower” a unit of measurement
We had a team of Purcherons, loggers at that. Big gentle giants they were. I didn't log with them but I used them every year for dragging out oak for firewood, our only source heat. We had a lot of fun with them.
Those low-slung horses are magnificent. Draught horses are God's perfect expression of power and beauty.
ReplyDeleteCue Jethro Tull's "Heavy Horses".
ReplyDeleteWe had a team of Purcherons, loggers at that. Big gentle giants they were. I didn't log with them but I used them every year for dragging out oak for firewood, our only source heat. We had a lot of fun with them.
ReplyDeletewhat a expressive photograph. magnificent animals.
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