[TheForge] Ox drovers (way OT- MREA fair)

[Dave Brown]

At 14:43 06/15/03 -0300, you wrote:

> > Yeah, you know ... those big hairy steers with a board across their
> > necks...
>
>Ahem.  I think you mean, "with a red stick strapped to their horns."
>:-)
>- Mike

A head yoke is a Canadian thing,  We don't see that much down here.  Takes 
too much time to set up.

>--
>In Nova Scotia, where head yokes are the rule and the only exceptions
>are the oxen that belong to those guys  from Maine who come up here to
>compete against oxen with proper head yokes.  (Last time I went to an
>ox pull, the head yokes were...um... ahead.)

(Mandatory Blacksmithing Content)  There's pins and bolts and hooks and 
other stuff that needs to be forged for a good yoke.  The load that can be 
pulled is only as good as the forgings for the hardware.

Now ... Did you hear the one about the Novie and the Newfie who went out 
fishing?  Well .......