team of horses

noun, a team composed of horses

“He said there was pitch-holes on the ice that you lose sight of a team of horses in, and a sleigh.”

“When my father moved over here to this farm, he had a team of horses and one cow, and that’s all.”

“Growing up on the farm, we always had a team of horses pretty well, eh? And I was the one that got to drive them most of the time.”

“In the tractor you can back up, but a team of horses, you gotta talk to them and hope you walk back.”

“I worked over the summer. First job that I had was a manure pile, when I was about fifteen years old. A hell of a pile, and I had to take it up with a team of horses and a board.”

“I remember them telling a story about one time a swarm of bees got away in the churchyard, and of course it was all horses then, and they lit on the team of horses and killed it.”

“I mean if you don’t hook it up right, team of horses pull that way, and you want to pull the other way. Team of horses is going to win, you know.”

“It was just a matter of getting the hay into the big wagon, and then the forks would close, and the team of horses would lift it all the way up.”

“We’d land out on the ice and put you off on the ice, and you’d walk in, or there used to be a sleigh come out and team of horses or a one horse and pick up the people.”

“Back in the hungry thirties, these farms wouldn’t grow enough to feed, hardly feed a team of horses and maybe seven or eight cows. Now these same farms today, well there’s fifty head out here.”

“They had these sleighs that would hold about a yard of sand, and they’d have five or six sleighs hooked up behind one team of horses, and, you know, they skid along good on the ice.”

“If there was two sleighs on a Saturday for the first trip, I’d get to drive one team of horses, and that was good. You’d be just frozen stiff by the time you got to Kingston ’cause your clothes weren’t as good.”

“The farmers we worked for, they stooked and thrashed with a thrashing machine. You had your own team of horses and you had to build your own load, like from the ground. And then you took them in and threw them in to fit into the thrash machine.”

“I remember the men being all excited one day. It was in the wintertime again, and apparently a trainer plane, Harvard trainer, had crashed out on the ice, just out in front of the Smith’s place. And they hooked up the team of horses, and everybody went out. There was my Uncle Tom, Len and my father, and they brought back a triangular piece of iron, or well not iron. It didn’t rust.”

“I could tell you about the old house up on Simcoe, the old farmhouse where my grandfather lived and my Dad and mother and I and everybody lived. The one half of it came from Horseshoe Island. They moved it over on the ice in the wintertime with skids underneath it and teams of horses, when the ice was a lot stronger than it was this year.”

“A car went through the ice over there, and my dad got it out of the ice. They sent a diver down, and they had two team of horses with hay on the sleighs and a big pole across, and they, you know, winched it up out of the water. But I remember when he brought it out, it was all like caved in on the side. There must have been something to do with the air pressure.”