Been a bit slow here with the exciting weather swings. Not doing much except turning horses out, cleaning stalls and bringing them in at night. You say “this is good,” because you are not having to fix stuff to get the jobs completed! Temps dropped way down for a couple days, now back up to 40F+. Kind of doing a rerun of last winter, up, down, snowstorm or bare ground. We didn’t put chains on the little tractor until March, then took them off 2 weeks later! Winter was done!!
We got a call from a trainer friend “Do you have any big horse Pair harness to sell?” Gosh, really hadn’t thought about selling. But we could probably put some together for you! We then went scrounging thru things and actually put 2 sets Pair harness together and ran it over to them. Well, horses are MUCH bigger than expected, so one set barely could be girthed up. Breastcollars ended a foot in front of saddles. Nope, too small. Got out the other harnesses, put them on. Fit like it was made-to-order!!
We had also taken a selection of driving bits we never use in 6" mouths, as well as several sets of Pair reins. They liked those too, kept a bit and set of reins. We were all happy with the results, collected our money and went on home.
Then the cold was back allowing husband too much FB time! He told me he found an “interesting carriage, was going to ask for more pictures.” He liked the pictures, he had the money from selling, so off he went to look at the carriage. Took the big truck, “just in case” to save driving back to get the truck He bought the carriage! They loaded it up and headed home.
It is quite lovely, just BIG. Husband went back online and found it is a Mountain Phaeton, modern made, copying a old Brewster Carriage Company model. It sits quite high, two steps to get in with! It has 3 seats, pulled with a Pair or Four. Sides have slats, body is in natural wood. Painted wheels and undercarriage There are two small doors in the sides to get into the center seat. Grooms sit facing backwards, feet on the let down tailgate.
I will need to make seat and backrest covers, upholstery is cream color wool Bedford cord. Not the best choices for our family! Ha ha We unloaded it and got it covered immediately, so no pictures for you. The big-ness is about like standing next to a Roof-Seat Break, high seats, wide wheel track, wide (2inch?) rubber on the wheels!.
We have an antique Slat-Side Phaeton, but it has only 2 seats, goes single or Pair. Not nearly so high and very short coupled for turns. We now have “this slat-sided model” in medium and large! We laughed about the new one being “Supersized!” Husband needs to do a few things on it before spring driving season arrives. Going to be fun! Hope we know enough folks to invite for a ride in the wide seats! Ha ha
