A Hay Toboggan

If we both look away, the load must disappear.

 The calves usually get worked after a bowl of sweet feed. With this pair, it has worked out well to feed them, do other chores, then come back and get them out. Yesterday, "chores" was to make a few repairs on an old, wooden toboggan of my in-laws.  

Having done that, it seemed silly not to drag it around on the new snow.  A quick length of baler twine, a small loop made with a, "half-hitch" to hitch to, and we were ready to go.  (Pun intended, but truth be told, it may have been a half-hitch or it may have been a triple granny knot. I am the world's worst knot-tier.)

The toboggan makes a pretty nice work sled for something like this.  It pulls easily, turns sharply without drama, and doesn't run up on them in the wet snow we had by mid-afternoon. We did one lap around the yard, then walked back to the barn for a bale of straw for the big boys.  Another lap, and it was back for a bale of hay.  

We had one small 'running event' for about 50 feet (I could see they would stop
to sniff the hayrake, so I kept up with them and said "whoa" as they got to the rake.), but all-in-all they did well working without using a rope as an emergency brake. Once we got settled down, they stood under voice command while I got the bales out of the barn- out of their sight.

The Hay Toboggan: a nice complement to The Stone Canoe.