Join Joe as he films Jason Julian and his team of Brabant draft horses to do some work in the hills outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Due to the location, hills and condition of the winter mountain road, their usual equipment could not do the job so CH Coakley, Inc of Milwaukee, Wisconsin hired Jason and his horse drawn wagon to remove old battery cells from a retired AT&T radio site.
The job required the Brabant team to make 5 trips up and down the steep, snowy winter road to haul all the batteries and equipment. We see a lot of footage of his draft horses working!
joe interviews Matt Anderson from AT&T of Green Bay, WI to explain the job.
Joe also interviews Brian Coakley and Al Brown of CH Coakley. The Coakley company has been in business for 130 years and began back when horses were the normal method ofor hauling. They are used to thinking outside the box in order to get their work done. They have special expertise in medical and telecommunication equipment and crews are trained and certified to handle special hazardous materials.
Watch our video about Jason and his wife Katrina and their Horse powered Wisconsin Dairy Farm. https://youtu.be/8KTboZpOn5s
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Draft Horses And Mules Are Awesome
I'M HERE TO SEE THE HORSES AND HANDLER — CUT THE HUMAN CHATTER: IT CAN BE VOICE-OVER. I LIVE IN AMISH COUNTRY AND WATCH THIS MASTERY OFTEN!!
I LOVE seeing heavy horses work. They are so gorgeous and we just don't use them enough
Good old horse power still works better?
Incredible.
Just a wonder to watch just love it
Jason handled those horses like a BOSS! Impressive skills.
I love that fancy Gee and Haw work of that team
Nothing like watching well trained team at work takes me back to my childhood watching my grandfather work his team I understand now the joy he got out of it
Those mares are amazing! Sometimes backing up 150 years plus or minus pays off royally.
Wow. I had my heart in my throat when the team was going downhill, loaded. I could see the locked up brakes (to pretty much no effect!) and I just thought- "those poor horses…" if that trailer tries to pass them or go under them or yank them off the road to the side! I don't understand it.
I only saw one brake pedal that looked like it only operated the rear tires to pretty much zero effect in the packed snow. Shouldn't you have had chains on the wheels? Like I said, I don't understand it or why there was no disaster. Those girls must be INCREDIBLY powerful, sure footed and super-glued to the earth.
Your great, great grandfather must've figured out how much weight it was safe to hold going downhill in the snow. I wonder if horses died figuring out that information?! That's the best two horsepower engine I've ever seen!
Wow! Great horses and great guy! I taught my horse to pull but not out of a trailer wow.
Tremendous! Thank you. ?