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I'm very tempted myself but she might be a bit too heavyweight for my type, in fairness I said I'd post this.







I have a fully broken big French draught mule for sale. 15.3 hands or so.
I would like some advice as in advertising, cause I thought the mules society would be contacted by people interested in mules.

Thanks in advance for your reply

Ella Pinney-Hammel

Goats 'n' Roses
Cwmduad
Carmarthen SA33 6XB
01267 281684
www.goats-n-roses.co.uk

She is gorgeous jj, How much do they want for her do you know? What breeding does she have? I have also just been on horsemart and seen a 3 and half year old grey mule just backed in nottinghamshire advertised for sale at £1500.

Oh Thelma is very very nice indeed, lovely to see a mule working well. Are you needing another one Jenny? Is it worth cross posting her onto the reenactment forum?

HorseMart mule sounds useful too...

http://horsemart.co.uk/AdvertRef/HM841O ... Detail.asp

Where are all these big mules popping up from then?!!!!

Potto are you looking for a mule?

i'm afraid one of the e-mails got sucked into my junk mail and I've only just found it.Here's more Info about Thelma.I had asked if she was the other Mules that worked with Murial the mule Janice now has.This is a good mule for someone wanting a working compagnion for their farm,reinactment of ploughing displays

"The Mule is a she, Thelma. My late husband imported three mules, one of which is Muriel, the black Ardenner mule.
Thelma did everything for Charlie, ploughing, pulling a sledge, chain harrowing, she was in shafts and as a team on a pole. I am only second best for her, so she doesn't really suit me, cause being alone on the farm now I don't have the time to do her justice. She is 5 or six, I have to look this up, bay, very pretty
It is very sad, I had so many plans for her, but I was told mules are one Man / woman animals, a bit like sheep dogs. I was thinking of £ 3500. There is a picture on my web site with her horsey pal.

When my husband got so ill, he went for rides on her. I always thought she is very gentle in a mulish sort of way (once in a while she wanted her direction to enjoy the view or so...). I think she would be much happier with people knowing what mules are about. I am afraid I am not, none of her fault.
I thought mule people understand my dilemma the best.

She sounds an absolute star with her whole life ahead of her.

Damn, why do have to be so skint? She sounds ideal for me too.

Thelma is absolutely stunning!!! It has always been a dream of mine to be owned by a good size riding mule/life companion and if the right one comes along at the right price and time i will be in there.... I always keep my eyes on the market..

For those who might not be aware of it, Thelma's owner was the late Charlie Pinney, who developed a whole range of modern farm and forestry equipment for use with horses, as well as importing modern-built equipment from Eastern Europe.

One of his bits of gear was a hitch-cart. This was a pair of shafts, fitted to a very basic 2-wheeled 'cart', which, from the front, looked like a very heavy-duty exercise cart.

At the back, however, was the smart bit; a hydraulically operated, and fully adjustable 3-point linkage, as used on tractors. This meant that any device built for use with a modern tractor could be connected to the hitch cart, and drawn by a horse instead.

Charlie also designed a bolt-on addition for the hitch-cart - a small petrol engine, which drove a PTO! So you could use your horse to power a conventional tractor drawn topper or mower; the petrol engine provided the high speed drive to the rotating machinery, the horse moved it over the land with minimal impact - and the petrol engine used nowhere near as much fuel as even the smallest tractor.

He was also heavily involved in importing and selling Swedish logging equipment, such as a 2-wheeled timber hitch, where the logs were winched up under the wheels, with the tail ends dragging on the ground. This enabled the horse to shift a bigger load of logs, with less effort, than if they were just dragging along the ground, but because the ends of the logs were still on the ground, the horse could pull the load down quite a steep slope without it running away.

Charlie was an enthusiastic advocate of the advantages of working horses, and, more than once, took his very basic and workmanlike machinery into heavy horse showing classes, with his horse in plain working harness - which must have ruffled a few feathers amongst the 'polished brass and ribbons' brigade!

His early death is very much regretted by the small-holders and horse loggers, who benefited from his inventive mind and enthusiastic support, and I very much hope that Thelma finds a good home.

Thanks for the in fill Rifleman (Glad you found us!)I knew a little bit about Charlie but not enough to put it down here.I contacted him when I found he had two french ules and he promised to e-mail me photo's but nothing arrived and the next I heard was the tragic news.kn
He sounds as if he was a very interesting man to know.

Very interesting stuff, I wish I had a mind that worked like that - thanks for the info Rifleman. Sounds like he will be greatly missed.

Upping as this lovely Mule is still for sale through no fault of her own.Come on all you people who keep asking me where you can get riding mules from!
Her owner would be willing to take £3000 for her to the right home and for a working mule of this calibra that is not a bad price.

awwwwwwwwwww

If i had more money i would be like right give me the mule :)

Shes beautifull/great height and age.

hmmm better start saving haha :P

I think finance - or lack of it - is the reason many of us are without the mules of our choice.

too true, if she wants a good home i will offer one... but unfortunately do not have funds....especially in current climate..

I think its a fair price to be honest, you'd pay it all day long for the equivalent horse without the rarity value. Hope she finds a new home soon!