“Preventing Wrecks”

“Gentle Training 2 - Daily Opportunities”

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Preventing Wrecks

   ”Preventing Wrecks”

Learn how to prevent common wrecks with horses in harness from a respected master horseman.  Get Doc’s Essential Safety Advice regarding Harness, Equipment, Knowledge and Skill. 

Gentle Training 2-Daily Opportunities

“Gentle Training 2

Daily Opportunities”

Developing Trust, Respect and Leadership.

“Daily interaction can and should be more than just feeding and care giving.  These moments provide powerful opportunities for you to become your horse’s most important and valued companion, leader and trainer.  In essence-training all the time.”

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February 17, 18, & 19, 2012

The workshop will be held at Ruby and Amber’s Organic Oasis – the organic horse-powered farm of Kris Woolhouse and Walt Bernard.

The workshop will focus on gentle/natural horsemanship, safety, and the basics of harnessing, hitching and driving; rhythmic pressure/release driving techniques will be a key component of all our hands-on work.

The use of horse-drawn farm equipment and doing real work with horses on the farm will be an important focus as the workshop progresses.

We will be driving single horses and teams of two. Larger hitches such as 3 and 4 abreast may be included if there is interest, and hitching a demonstration 4 up is a possibility.

This will be our eight workshop at the farm. It is a fantastic place for workshops with great horses and equipment, opportunities to work horses both in fields and inside hoop houses, and a chance to study an amazing organic horse-farming operation.

Walt and I have co-instructed many workshops together; he is a highly skilled teamster, trainer and teacher.

Motels are available in nearby Cottage Grove, OR, or students are welcome to camp at the farm. Students are invited to bring food to contribute to pot luck meals; we share in the preparation, cooking and clean up in the farm kitchen.

Students may participate as either as hands-on students or observers.

For information and registration, contact Doc personally at: 406-250-8252 or workshops@dochammill.com

Oregon: Horse Drawn Tillage Implements Workshop with Walt Bernard, assisted by Doc.

February 11, & 12, 2012

The workshop will be held at Ruby and Amber’s Organic Oasis – the organic horse-powered farm of Kris Woolhouse and Walt Bernard.

The workshop will focus on pre-restoration evaluation of equipment.  The set up, use and repair of cultivators, plows, mowers. Walt’s background and interest in farm equipment is Encyclopedic. Walt has an extensive equipment collection as well as a great equipment shop to work in. Don’t miss this opportunity to check out some rusty iron! For information, call Doc at 406-250-8252

Misty, Duchess, Kate and Ann on pasture

Since May 1, 2010, a ranch near Eureka, Montana has been the new home of Cathi Greatorex and Doc Hammill, and the home of their Montana Workhorse Workshops. 

Doc and students in a recent Montana Workhorse Workshop

    Some of the features that have excited  us most about this new location are:  700 acres of Montana mountain ranchland made up of hay meadows, agricultural land, and forests-with trails for driving horses throughout; timbered and open pastures for our horses, a huge barn, a longer growing season and longer workshop season, a six-acre commercial organic farm-10 Lakes Organic Farm-in operation on site, easy year-round access, and a nearby Amish community. 

Several 2010 students in one of the outdoor classrooms!

The ranch sits near the base of the Whitefish Mountain Range-with peaks of 7200′ elevation-just west of Glacier National Park. Therriault Creek Ranch is surrounded by national forest lands, has abundant wildlife, a trout stream, and magnificent views.  Doc and Cathi know they are blessed to be stewards of such an amazing place and are anxious to share it with family, friends, and Workhorse Workshop students.

We are very excited to have found and leased an amazing ranch that exceeds anything we imagined.

Tom at the US Forest Service winter range near Perma, MT

Tom Triplet, my step father, was inducted into the Montana Draft Teamster Hall of Fame at the 13th annual Big Sky Draft Horse Expo in Deer Lodge, Montana.

Tom comes from a family of horsemen, dating back to the days when Tripletts were friends and neighbors of George Washington, and his ancestors took Washington’s guests fox hunting and did the future president’s carpentry work.

His parents moved from Missouri to Oklahoma in horse drawn wagons before his birth, then back to Missouri and later on to Montana. Four years before Tom was born they moved in wagons from Plentywood Montana to the Flathead Valley, west of the Continental Divide.

For Tom, horsepower was the only source of transportation and power into his early adult years. He logged with horses, worked mules in the forest service grading landing strips, skidding poles, putting up hay and more.

Through his years of draft horse and mule work, he developed the depth and breadth of expertise and experience that can only come from daily hands on work- privately and professionally. His knowledge of the horse was clearly stated when one of his nominators into the Hall of Fame explained, “as a horseman, Tom Triplett may not be able to walk on water, so to speak, but he could sure enough get a horse or a mule to do it.”

Triplett’s depth of knowledge, experience and patience, his commitment to safety and the comfort and the well being of the animals, and his obsession with figuring how to get everything “jeeest right”- which all combined, puts him in a class of his own among horsemen.