re: #352 oaktree

Heh. Actually possibly not a bad idea if the situations where lower horsepower can be identified and they are concentrated in areas where using horses would prove economical.

Check the words to Tull’s ‘Heavy Horses’. Very prophetic.

Let me find you a filly for your proud stallion seed
to keep the old line going.
And we’ll stand you abreast at the back of the wood
behind the young trees growing.
To hide you from eyes that mock at your girth,
and your eighteen hands at the shoulder.
And one day when the oil barons have all dripped dry
and the nights are seen to draw colder
they’ll beg for your strength, your gentle power
your noble grace and your bearing.
And you’ll strain once again to the sound of the gulls
in the wake of the deep plough, sharing.

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