One to separate the city slickers from the country folk

[MiddenMonster]

You just might be a yuppified city slicker if you don't know what this is:

 

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[EDDE]

ox/draft animal yoke
transplanted city boy

 

[stefen]

Hanes

 

[downindixie]

I think Caligula had one in his bedroom.

 

[d2]

Stefen, you were close but it's hames not hanes. I think hanes are drawers...d2

 

[nhbenz]

Swivel rod for a surveillance camera, right?

 

[stoney56]

Gypsy's walking stick?

 

[lumbercamp]

I'm a country boy, but horses around here don't wear them.

 

[aa battery]

dang o horse thingy

 

[Gypsy Heart]

I'm a country boy, but horses around here don't wear them.

They would if they were pulling something...sleigh,wagon,buggy...the hame is used to tighten or loosen where the draft of the pull is set...

Not for a walking stick Stoney!

 

[MiddenMonster]

Not for a walking stick Stoney!

Cough, coughfamily forum, cough

Congratulations non-city slickers. It is a hames/harness/yoke piece. Believe it or not, I was expecting someone to say that it was a hearse ornament!

 

[nhbenz]

No, I've got it! Its a subway train gate retractor rod!

 

[stoney56]

I'm a country boy, but horses around here don't wear them.

They would if they were pulling something...sleigh,wagon,buggy...the hame is used to tighten or loosen where the draft of the pull is set...

Not for a walking stick Stoney!

Snicker,

 

[gollum]

W.C. Fields' cue stick!

Mike

 

[stefen]

D2,

Thank you, I should have usd spall czek.

 

[Monty]

A single tree hitch. Monty

 

[Gypsy Heart]

01. Browband 17. Back Band
02. Winkerbrace 18. Collar
03. Blinds or Blinkers 19. Back Strap
04. Nose Band 20. Rump Safe
05. Bit Strap 21. Back Band Billet
06. Bit 22. Loop on Trace
07. Crown 23. Belly Band Billet
08. Bridle Cheek 24. Quarter Strap
09. Throat Latch 25. Lazy Strap or Mud Carrier
10. Line (front part) 26. Trace or Tug
11. Hame 27. Heel Chain
12. Breast Strap 28. Layer Loop
13. Pole Strap 29. Britchin or Breeching
14. Collar Strap 30. Hip Strap
15. Trace Safe 31. Line (hand part)
16. Belly Band 32. Trace Carrier

 

[Gypsy Heart]

I think thats one of them there Horse thingies! lolol

Close enough! Keep on Digging!

He is right ....go get the other one!

 

[MiddenMonster]

Britchin post, Gypsy! Those are some fine, dressed out horses.

 

[stefen]

Gonna be a talkin country here folks, so listen up:

A pair of hames flank a horse collar and then the hames are connected to the shafts or single tree (by leather straps or chains) which in turn pulls the, carriage, wagon, plow or other farm implement. Reins and other harness are then laced through the hames depending on the configuration.

There are many terms that separate the city slickers from the country folk like a "Hank of Shank" (a piece of rope).

And if a city slickers asks a country folk for direction they may tell the city slicker that its just down the lane a piece.
(which could be 100 feet or 10 miles) then turn south at the big oak (didn't tell the city slicker that it's no longer there)

Interesting trivia...does anyone know why your car dashboard is called a dash?

Its a carry-over from the carriage era where the carriage dashboard is the panel in front of the feet...that primarily protected the driver and passenger from horse crap and other mud and dirt that the horse may kick up, especially when trotting or galloping. Many of todays car part terminology comes from the carriage trade.

Other interesting trivia...Do any of you city folk know what that white stuff is in chicken poop?

Chicken poop