Heavy Horse at Work in Chiswick Park!

What a fine sight, a Shire Horse at work pulling logs out of the woods at Chiswick Park!

The team of two men were soft-spoken Irish and efficient, unflappable even when one dog after another came excitedly up to investigate the unusual scent. The actual moving of each batch of logs took a few seconds and was amazingly hard to photograph as most of the action was on narrow temporary paths among the trees. Of course that is exactly why a horse is better than a tractor, as there is no need to cut new roads through the woods to extract the lumber, and no danger of getting stuck in the mud either.