Classic authoritative text which serves as an operator's manual for work horse and mule application on farms, in the woods and in the carriage trade. From selection care and feeding of draft horses and mules, through harness, harnessing, hitching and driving, this volume, continually published since 1980 has served to help increase the number of practicing teamsters world wide.

Work Horse Handbook: second edition

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Miller, Lynn R.

Pets & Animal Care

Davila Art & Books

Haying with Horses by Lynn R. Miller is THE definitive volume on, and an exhaustive manual of, how to make hay employing true horsepower with ground-drive implements. Includes procedures, operation and care of equipment, animal power concerns, and farming variables. This book is a mixture of old and new imagery and information. Over 1,000 illustrations.Haying with Horses is one volume of the Work Horse Library. Mr. Miller is also the author of The Work Horse Handbook, Training Workhorses, Horsedrawn Plows, The Horsedrawn Mower Book and many others. He is the founder and editor of Small Farmer's Journal.

Haying With Horses

Engineering & Transportation

Lynn R. Miller

Engineering

Art of Working Horses

The Art of Working Horses, by Lynn R. Miller, follows on the heels of his other eight Work Horse Library titles. This 368 page, full color book tells the inside story of how people today find success working horses and mules in harness, whether it be on farm fields, in the woods, or on the road. Over 500 photos and illustrations accompany an anecdote-rich text which makes a case for the future of true horsepower. Lynn R Miller is the founder, editor and publisher of the Small Farmer’s Journal. He has also authored the Work Horse Handbook, Training Workhorses / Training Teamsters, Horsedrawn Plows, Haying with Horses, The Horsedrawn Mower Book, Horsedrawn Tillage Tools and several other titles. His books and magazines have been read and appreciated worldwide.

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

The Art of Working Horses, by Lynn R. Miller, follows on the heels of his other eight Work Horse Library titles. This 368 page full color book tells the inside story of how people today find success working horses and mules in harness, whether it be on farm fields, in the woods, or on the road. Over 500 photos and illustrations accompany an anecdote-rich text which makes a case for the future of true horsepower.

Lynn Miller has worked as an artist, painting and drawing, for over fifty years. This book includes an extensive essay by him on his philosophy with and approach to the creative process and painting in particular. It also includes over 90 images of his artwork, most in color. Mr. Miller's art works are in private collections across the U.S, with a few in Europe and Asia. He graduated with a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1970 and an MFA from the University of Oregon in 1972.

Elastic Signature: Notes on Painting

Arts & Photography

Painting

Clownery: In lieu of a life spent in harness is the autobiography of an artist and teacher resembling the author, in prose poetry, with some fictional and hypothetical pieces set off in italics. The clown grows and matures despite the buffeting of an often painful waking world, though he tumbles and soars in his dreams. The book follows his education, consciousness, work, play, dreams, humor, art, love, relationships, and the mysterious nature of a full life on this fragile planet.

Clownery: In lieu of a life spent in harness

Hunter FRCP FRCOphth, Paul

History & Criticism

With hundreds of photos and drawings, this profusely illustrated text covers restoration, rebuilding, repair, and tune-up with a focus on the very popular McCormick Deering (International) No. 9. It also includes references to other makes and models, such as McCormick Number 7 and John Deere Big 4, as well as resource information for updating cutter bar assemblies to new materials and functions. The author, Lynn R.Miller, is a world recognized authority on animal-power and horsefarming methods, equipment, procedures and economics. He is also the editor and founder of Small Farmer's Journal.

The Horsedrawn Mower Book: Second Edition

Two books in one: The fully illustrated, definitive, in-depth volume on training of horses and mules to work in harness - and - a treatise on learning to drive horses and mules in harness for work purposes. Includes over 650 photos and illustrations, most in color. Authored by the renowned contemporary expert on animal power, Lynn R. Miller.

Training Workhorses / Training Teamsters: Second Edition

Underground agrarian activist and artist, Lynn R. Miller, returns with his third book of insightful, incisive, probing and provocative essays in unflinching and uncompromising support of small family farms, organic husbandry, vibrant rural communities and the pursuit of right livelihood. Mixing good humor, vision, clarity and courage, this writing pushes forward beyond biography of ideas well into essays as intervention. Lynn R. Miller, is the award winning editor/publisher/founder of the international agrarian quarterly Small Farmer's Journal, as well as author of many books including Why Farm, Starting Your Farm Farmer Pirates and Dancing Cows, The Workhorse Handbook and more.

Old Man Farming: Essays from a rewarded Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Covers how to plow with horses using older equipment and new implements. Here you will find simple diagrams explaining tricky adjustments for both riding and walking plows. Detailed engineer's drawings will be immensely helpful to folks restoring equipment. Also includes close-up photos and information on new makes of animal-drawn plows including Pioneer and White Horse.

Horsedrawn Plows & plowing: revised edition

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Work Horse Handbook: second edition

Haying With Horses

Art of Working Horses

Art of Working Horses

Elastic Signature: Notes on Painting

Clownery: In lieu of a life spent in harness

The Horsedrawn Mower Book: Second Edition

Training Workhorses / Training Teamsters: Second Edition

Old Man Farming: Essays from a rewarded Life

Horsedrawn Plows & plowing: revised edition