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| Not eat? You gotta fuel your prime movers somehow. I saw a riding horse in town waiting for a parade doing a number on the city hall lawn. Each bite was a big chunk of bluegrass practically eaten to the roots and probably pulled out by the roots sometimes.
As for backing, you have to plan your work I suppose, and not plan to back or to plug the baler. Likely you wouldn't want to roll several mower conditioner windrows together with just a few horses out front. The sudden loads of a slug might cause muscle damage.
I saw a matched 8 black horse hitch that day pulling a field cultivator (in very dry sandy soil) and the first time the driver dropped the field cultivator into the ground 7 of the horses were stalled instantly. The 8th didn't have the traces tight so hardly noticed, but stopped too. Two ranks of four abreast. One up front was along for the walk, until a helper noticed and twitched about its rump after they lifted the field cultivator shovels a bit. The main driver rode on a dolly with a seat. That wouldn't back well either, but I doubt backing that 8 horse hitch without lots of room would worked well either on any implement or long tongued wagon. Not a chance of backing the field cultivator through a door 1 foot wider than the cultivator!
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Horse drawn or gas powered hay baler?
