Old School
That’s Dick Huttinga and two of his Percheron draft horses, Mac and Mitch, drawing a side delivery hay rake through a field south of Bozeman recently. Dick and his brother-in-law Larry Thomas like to use draft horses and old farming equipment to do work. They let me take pictures while Dick was raking hay and while they were harvesting oats and then threshing the oats while using Al Lien’s 1940 John Deere tractor, complete with flywheel starter. “Jesus Christ, we go to a lot of work just to have fun for a couple of days,” Lien said.
This is a personal project of mine. I’m planning to check back in with Dick and Larry. There’s something about those big horses. I don’t know what it is.
Thomas Lee True West 
Been looking at your blog here for a while, love it. Esp. love today’s post because I grew up in North Idaho haying this way (we used our Belgian show horses)…loved it. Miss it. Thanks for the memories!
Thank you for writing. It’s great to hear from you.
Feels like autumn. Not a bad way to earn a living…