Ritchie Wells Edith Creek Bullock Team setting up and pulling a log. NO RESPONSES TO COMMENTS GIVEN 

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Having the knowledge, and being able to to it are different. I know how to drive a team of horses. Can I physically do it? Absolutely not it's a total train wreck. A travisty. I agree with you, but a historian can read it in a book and understand it but give him a team and some yokes and tell him to have at it and watch the world burn and die. Anyone that can drive a team, horses, mules, ox, you name it..... I give them utmost respect.

The advantage over tractors... 1 maintenance, tractor repairs are frequently expensive. 2 fuel prices often more than feed prices. 3 teams can do more delicate work (tight areas between trees, soft ground is less torn up by a team)

Lower entry level cost (assuming you train them from calves), they produce some of the best fertilizer you can have, if one gets injured or too old you have a freezer full of food.

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Seen people handle oxen way better than this. Big whip equals a small man.

It does, Betty! Ritchie is a very dedicated and skilled bullock driver.

It is very obvious and they are a well trained set.

Thanks for your comment and observation. Things are different between the US and Australia with bullocks for sure. Here we pretty much call any bovine in draught work a bullock. We also use age as a guideline - a steer would be up to about age 3yrs / bullock 3-6 years / and oxen would be over 6 years ... but only the real old-timers use the term 'oxen' here ... I personally have a pair of Jerseys who aren't 3 yet and I always call them my steers .. partly because they aren't that well trained and I don't think they deserve the term bullock ... to me bullocks are real working animals.

Watch the cows,they are not content with that slavery work,if they could had a chance,they could buck him out,,,🐂🐄🐃

You are right,this is mis using animals,cows are for milk farm,and other agricultural activities,not so slavery like this, there are enough tractors,to do jobs like this now,that man is mad for me,,,!!