When Brad Johnson and Derek O’Toole talk about horsepower, they’re talking about actual horse power. The two men are co-owners of Third Branch Horse Logging, of Braintree, which uses draft horses for ...

The dynamics of the 21st century global marketplace can be found everywhere, even a remote mountainside in the far reaches of western Virginia, where Ben Harris and his crew are harvesting large tulip ...

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - For students at the Hiland Hall School, forestry came to life Friday in a demonstration of logging work with two full-size black Percheron horses: Belle and Bright. Jared ...

Manly Stanley and High Falutin aren’t exactly light on their feet. But their horseshoe-clad hooves were less damaging Thursday to a sensitive historic garden site that is undergoing restoration on ...

Humans have had a love affair with draft horses for centuries, perhaps even before the descendants of today's stalwarts toiled away on feudal European farms or carried medieval knights into battle.

Logging With Horse Power As we travel Back Down the Pennsylvania Road to 1994, Mike Stevens takes a look at the way things used to be, when horsepower was just that: horse power.

Third Branch Horse Logging was started October 2018. Both Johnson and O’Toole had been working with draft horses for farming. When they formed their company they shifted their focus to using horses in ...