OFF GRID ~ HE DRIVES A HORSE AND BUGGY 

I am ABSOLUTELY going to do this. This is the exact video I was hoping to find.

Doug, that definitely was a great video; does add a little perspective to transportation during a grid down situation! Thanks for sharing!

Nothing like the clip clop of horses hooves, driving a cart is a wonderful way to travel. Used to do it around 1982. Too far from town now though.

Hi folks. Just like to say how I absolutely love your buggies and carts.... Please keep up the good work.... WHEN PETROL AND DIESEL RUN OUT THE BUGGYS WILL DEFINITELY COME IN HANDY... JUST LOVE HORSE AND CART.. ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU ON YOUR DEMONSTRATION.... ALL THE BEST... SUE HEMMINGS....

Thank you for giving the wheel details! I never thought about the expanding of the wood! You should come visit this summer while Eric rebuilds the winter sled/wagon . It was gifted to him since he is the Smithy and all our homesteaders want him trained to repair the draft vehicles . He’s already altered for dog carters carts. So now it’s draft horse and draft goat vehicles to train himself with.

Horses have pretty much been the greatest transportation mode for centuries of our world. I bet the peacefulness is amazing. I drove 48 states with my husband on an 18 wheeler it was amazing 🤩 but I’ve also been on a Harley nation wide as well but the horse is beautiful and calming ❤️🤍💙

i restored a 150 YO mountain carriage for my spouse in the early 90's to show a matched pair of leopard Appy's under harness. it took me 6 months of hard work to restore that sucker. each wheel had 12 coats of hand rubbed acrylic lacquer and 3 coats of primer! each coat taking approximately 1 hr per wheel! ugh! i had to recreate the seat as it was falling apart as well as the floor. i also had to hand make some of the hardware.A friend i had at the time Larry Fader did all the lettering and pinstripe it turned out gorgeous and allow her to win a National championship the first time out. we also rode in it to our wedding party after we married! right down the frigging street! heck we turned some heads! gonna have to pull that thing out of the shipping container and have a look at it. as its been stored over ten years!

Super cool Buggy!! Most of the buggies here have fancy places for oil lamps in the back and sides up front for early morning and the occasional night ride!!!

Just going through some past vids this was really neat. I find you and Stacy to be very cool cats, much success in your long term life endeavor. thanks for taking us on the ride of your life.

That's the one vehicle I wanted the most, for all the reasons Doug stated. My late husband understood. But everyone else thought we was crazy to want it. You know what we didn't care. But we never got to get one..darn the luck.

I see these all the time where I live in South Central Pennylvania, Amish Country. They can hold up a good amount of traffic going up a hill when you cannot pass on our old country 2 lane roads. For the seven years I have lived in this state I have never seen an accident, thank goodness. My heart goes out to the horses that have to clop along those paved roads every day in all sorts of weather. :(

Awesome stuff Doug.....Love the buggies! Every episode makes my wife and I more and more ready to get the heck out and start our real homestead. Thanks,

I so want one these Amish buggies I'd keep one in my front yard and one in my garage.

Whew!!!! Another one down! Really enjoying all of the great information as I work my way through your videos.

I was just teasing the wife the other day that I'm going to get her a one horsepower pony car, and there you had one front and center! The one horsepower pickup truck is a great addition too. ;)

My grandfather used mules to work his farm and they were his only transportation.he used s burlap sake to bring back. what he needed from the store which wasn't much the farm provided what he and grandma needed.They raised twelve children. I never heard him compain it was just the way life was

This is exactly what every Prepper/Homesteader needs for sure. You hit the nail on the head with this one. Great job!

Hi Doug in the State of Indiana the Amish buggy all have lights state law + a slow moving vehicle sign. I live in St Joe country next t Elkhart there's a lot of Amish anMennonite community. We have a buggy with a snow on the front, down the street from my Father in law house. The owner used four draft horses to pull it. Remember safety is # one on your Homestead.

Homestead Homies! 😆 Percheron horses for farming and driving. Im blessed to have a job driving Percheron’s downtown Toronto. Dream job.

Very interesting , thanks for showing us that.

I have wanted a horse and buggy for years, everyone in my family thinks i'm crazy, but until we can find land we cant get one, i am trying to homestead in the city :)

Greetings from Ireland. Awesome transport, the fiberglass wheel's are a fantastic idea.

Very interesting video Doug. Thanks

Greetings y’all!😁. Some modern day things are nice, yet I still love old fashioned stuff! It’s just so Natural!😁. And you’re so right....what’s gonna work during a solar flare or shtf situation?! Old fashioned stuff will work!😁. Great video! 💕Always, Carol

I think these are a must for self sufficiency to any homesteader and prepper. Love it! Thank you!

Ok thank you Doug. I will look into it. God Bless

Even though I've wanted to build a wood gasification carbureted car that would work in a SHTF situation, I've always liked the horse and buggy idea also.Thanks for sharing!

I love them, I'm looking forward to more videos.

I LOVE this!!!! Doug and Stacy are incredible. Thank you for these videos.

I always liked using the most compact model of equine transport possible. We had POA (Pony of the Americas) ponies for years and years. A small horse or pony can do an incredible amount of work around the homestead. One large pony can pull a vehicle like your buggy and they can also pull garden implements like a single bottom plow or a drag harrow or even help drag smaller logs for firewood. When I was a kid we used a Welsh pony to plow our garden, pull a buggy and perform a lot of draft tasks on our homestead. Unlike those big draft horses, a large pony gets a lot of miles to the hay bale too.

That small one is sooooo cute!! I didn't realize you say in it. Never seen one. I thought you rode the horse and pulled the wagon for carrying supplies or something. This was soooo cool to see and understand. Thank you for the education! Love and hugs, Lisa

Yay Doug. So glad to see this video. I've been waiting it seems for ever for one of these. It was one of your horse video's that brought me to your channel in the beginning. Yay. More please. Thank you, thank you thank you.

The emp part. Yes yes. That's why I keep at least one horse. I just sold off all my gypsy horses.. and decided on just a regular horse. I plan to get him trained to cart. Been planning this already. Great video

What a great Idea! I had thought about looking for a halflinger that was trained to ride and drive once I get my farm going

Doug you're absolutely right on being prepared thank you for all your tips and knowledge🤪

Was it a very big learning curve? Care of the buggies, attaching the horse, driving the buggies? I'm glad you have neighbors willing to teach you. I know Doug has a sharp mind and can learn new things pretty easy. Just look at your homestead! Thank you for sharing. Though I have thought of a saddle horse, I never considered a buggy, before.

That is very cool! Right now our only alternative source of getting around are bicycles, and I am still wanting to get a buggy for the bikes to pull. We are not set up for horses at this point! But that is totally awesome! Great buggies!

very cool thanks for sharing!!

Let's see more about this!!

I have seen many of these on the road but didn't really know much about them, thanks for sharing it was very informative and would enjoy seeing more on this type of gear.

Love it!! Great tools and animals to have.

Driving horses is one of the funnest jobs there is.

Going through the old videos is great :)

Doug I wood like to see you and Stacy on a road trip in them. It would be cool to see do a video going to the store

great video. always wanted a tour of a buggy. Thanks!

I've got an electric car and solar panels because I want to be energy independent and not support OPEC but youre taking your transportation to a whole new level. Awesome. Only emissions you're producing is when your horse farts. I want to have a horse and wagon someday. My homestead is in rural Hawaii near a small town so a buggy would work.

Thanks for this video, I really enjoyed it.

Thank you for mentioning the reflectors...I am from a farming community, and those triangles are on all the Amish buggies as well as on all the tractors. I just feel that people need to know what they are. They are slow moving vehicle signs. The sides of the triangle are reflective, and in headlights, they look like black triangles surrounded by an orange border. These are REQUIRED BY LAW.

we have 2 horses, and my mare is a Haflinger that's saddle, and buggy trained and her son whose going to be broke to ride this year that haflinger/old quarter horse breed, but is need a gelding job done in the next 2mons, loved the video! 👍 👍 😉 💕 😇 ☮ Kellie 💕 God bless you all!

Slick ride. Nice. I don't have a buggy but I do have my horses. At this point there aren't my main mode of transportation but in a blink of an eye they could be. We do saddle up to run fence. They best thing is God's green earth provide the fuel for them. Sweet. Great video.

good points Doug as always!

You're right on Doug. We are going to need a mode of transportation that doesn't take gas but this is also only good as you say for those that have the room for a horse and to store hay. The buggies are awesome.

I would love to take a ride :)

Fascinating! I always wondered about the Amish buggies....learned something!

Love it & love you guys!

My family owns a menonite horse wagon/ buggy, it was aquired in 40's

Good stuff! Here in southeast PA, there are large Amish and Mennonite communities, we see the buggies, horses and even sleds in the winter, often. We go to their craft shows and farmers markets. There is a wide difference in the way they lead their lives. Most use electricity in one way or another, solar, wind, gas generators. Almost all are off grid, 'no wires coming to the homes'. Some even have modern cars. Their ways are not set in stone, they will vote to use more modern equipment and techniques. Modern homesteading...

You guys definitely have me thinking! Would also love to see some more videos on things to cook in the sun oven! Thanks for sharing!

so fun to see!

That is a fifth wheel . A bicycle was my way of traveling when I was young.

Great video. FYI - Last spring I built a green house, this year I built a chicken coup. It's actually nice that we have both fresh vegetables, and soon eggs from out chickens. My goal isn't to go totally off grid like you two. Instead I want to get to a point were me and my family could if we wanted too. Please keep posting videos.

That is so cool. I love horses and I would totally do the horse and buggy thing. I love that you are bare foot. I miss being able to do that.

Yess!!!! If it goes down, there wouldn't even be gas to buy!

Love it! I intent to get a buggy and since I am an old lady and I have been there, done that, and am just getting back to it, I want to paint my buggy pink with white stripes...just because I can! LOL!

I love horse and buggys i have always wanted to ride one

Nice video. I'm excited to see you show the horses and how to sable up for towing the buggies around. :) I 've rode horse back but not yet carriage.

And thanks for answering Kristens questions about homemade yogurt recently. we will be delving into that really soon. :)

Fascinating!

Doug I do like your way of thinking. What is funny is when I was having vehicle issues in April the first thing I wanted to do was trade in my vehicle for a horse and buggy. But like you said I currently live in town and nowhere to keep the horse.

LOVE! I remember as a little girl going to my great grandma Bell's homestead down on the Buffalo River ( she was born in 1880 and actually DID homestead the Buffalo River Valley) We would ride in the buggy every were we went

Great video, also from Missouri

Cool idea, thanks. I've been thinking of doing a tour of the States in a wagon, most I've seen doing so are in a large wagon. This got me to thinking about a Amish style buggy pulling a wagon, for feed/hay and such. Wouldn't need 4 draft horses, just one or two Standards or crosses. I believe the steering pivot section is called a 5th wheel, just like the one on my big truck.

Those are so cool

Were from NB Canada and we travel over to Maine for shopping and we went down to the Amish looking to buy steel roofing for a mini home we purchased and I asked the guy if they ever thought of a buggy that was set up like a treadmill for the horse and you drive it like a car and you could have a transmission in it so it could go faster than a regular buggy. He said that they thought of that. but I guess they never made one. I like to think outside the box sometimes...

Loving the buggies! How fun 🤗

Love them

💗Doug & Stacy💗

I'm been researching goat carts. Thanks Doug for this one.

Revisiting this one... This is still hugely relevant 👍

lol. homesteading for me is keeping your cost down and a horse you have to feed or let graze or for me something else to take care of. again lol LOVE THE CABIN...

God Bless ❤️

Interesting video 👍

Love!

This is awesome Doug thanks man. When I think off grid this is what I think! Lol! I'd love to get around like this some day ❤️ I miss horses so much.

Hi...... 🎥👍👍👍

Good video.

I LOVE IT!!! Looks way more omfortable than my buckboard idea ( those I can find easily around here) yours looks way more comfy! I was thinking more storage for carrying things I guess. This is awesome!! You knew this cowgirl would love a horse drawn buggy! Lol!

Laconia , NH -Harley-Davidson bike week 1983 or 84 ? There isn't many Harley riders that haven't heard of it ... I used to nod off almost fall asleep on the back from the purring sound of the engine . Buggy rides are fun too lol

ATM I have saddle horses, I use them to ride at times they are pretty good about traffic with the exception of the long trains of the loud motor bikes. they have never pulled a buggy or anything before.

Cool stuff man

Pretty cool.

nice whips lol. great video

Some day my dream of having one will come true!😊

As an equestrian: if you add an U/V shaped thing into your gear, it will really help the horse pull more in weight. Essentially it goes onto the withers, fastened to the "saddle/girth" there and it kinda pulls the leather off the horse, making the load feel lighter. They have their own name, but if you google enough with old 1900's farming photos you'll come across them.

I love your videos! I wonder if you could teach the basics on horses. I hear so many in love with the romance of a horse. And the buggy is super except here in the north we can use the cutters in the winter. They are awesome but VERY VERY COLD to travel far in.

That's cool 😎

I saw the buggies and said, the comments outta be good!....... "Hey Doug ,what do you do if you get carjacked?" I need say no more!

Nice rides you got there! Awesome name of video to. Need to take them out for a spin sometime. Great video

Cool, informative and very interesting. Just so you know there's still horse and buggy being used in Baltimore Maryland. There's still a couple old time merchant men who use horse and buggy in the city. It could be possible if you have a garage with no doors on it to repurpose that to a horse stall. In a SHTF scenario. Thumbs up.

Also Doug instead of the little mud flap if you made a little compartment that would hide the part that rotates for the steering and have it extend so that the buggy looks like a old model T and it would be used for storage like on a volks waggon bug and you would be the envy of the Amish. Just a thought