Jack and Michelle Parnell raise beautiful Clydesdales near Sandpoint, Idaho. Jack grew up in California, where his family farmed with horses. He started raking hay with horses when he was hardly big ...

Hugh Fifield drives his horses Tom and Jake while raking hay for baling accompanied by Samantha Locke, 20, of Barnstead, who has been driving horses since she was 2 years old. Credit: KEN WILLIAMS / ...

For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...

At the barn we did most of the unloading with horse power. The horses were hitched to a Whipple tree or double tree attached to the rope that pulled up the hay fork with its load. Dad was on the wagon ...

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