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The oxen senses his food, care, protection and well-
go beyond it-s strength. "Sometimes I work my team a full day ? that's when weather is good and conditions are right", Moran explained. At other times when they are required to work in an over-grown bog with poor conditions weather-wise, I may put them to pasture by noon." There was a time when one ox would be belled so that roaming/ oxen could be located \ and.v. This is no longer a practice since oxen are let loose in fenced pastures.
After logs are taken out they are skid along to waiting trucks, where they are loaded for destination. Moran says there's an advantage in this type of loading since the oxen do not damage the land over which they travel as do the mechanical skidders which tear and scar the land. He says oxen are cheaper, too.
Cost of fuel is high, and although oxen eat a great
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