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<blockquote data-quote="504RP" data-source="post: 1733411" data-attributes="member: 40335"><p>When i was riding mules alot. I met alot of people that used mules to pull wagons on some of the trail rides we would go on.</p><p></p><p>Was reading about the 20 mule teams they used to pull the boreax wagons with. </p><p></p><p>They had two men who drove the wagons. One was called a mule skinner who was alot of the time a pretty ill tempered type of personality kind of fella. </p><p></p><p> The other called a swamper who more less was the mule skinners helper. His job was to help feed and water the mules and help get their harnesses on and hook them up to the wagons. He would also pick up a bucket full of rocks each day to carry on the wagon so that he could throw them at a mule if it was to start loafing.</p><p></p><p>The trips back and forth were something like 30 days or more to the boreax mines and back. Because the two men didn't get along on the trips alot of the time.</p><p></p><p>The boss would call them into the office separately to talk to them so he could see if he felt they could get along ok without haveing a confrontation. Because ocassionly one would kill the other one i guess from all the stress of the job and not getting along.</p><p></p><p>If i remember right the 20 mule team pulled 3 wagons at a time. Two huge special built heavy built freight wagons, want to say the wells were like 10 foot in diameter and a third wagon that was a water wagon for watering the mules.</p><p></p><p>They use to somewhere in California i think it is. Put on a reenactment of the 20 mule boreax team and wagons that i would like to go see.</p><p></p><p>I bet thoes old mules were pretty good mules after having made a few trips pulling thoes boreax wagons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="504RP, post: 1733411, member: 40335"] When i was riding mules alot. I met alot of people that used mules to pull wagons on some of the trail rides we would go on. Was reading about the 20 mule teams they used to pull the boreax wagons with. They had two men who drove the wagons. One was called a mule skinner who was alot of the time a pretty ill tempered type of personality kind of fella. The other called a swamper who more less was the mule skinners helper. His job was to help feed and water the mules and help get their harnesses on and hook them up to the wagons. He would also pick up a bucket full of rocks each day to carry on the wagon so that he could throw them at a mule if it was to start loafing. The trips back and forth were something like 30 days or more to the boreax mines and back. Because the two men didn't get along on the trips alot of the time. The boss would call them into the office separately to talk to them so he could see if he felt they could get along ok without haveing a confrontation. Because ocassionly one would kill the other one i guess from all the stress of the job and not getting along. If i remember right the 20 mule team pulled 3 wagons at a time. Two huge special built heavy built freight wagons, want to say the wells were like 10 foot in diameter and a third wagon that was a water wagon for watering the mules. They use to somewhere in California i think it is. Put on a reenactment of the 20 mule boreax team and wagons that i would like to go see. I bet thoes old mules were pretty good mules after having made a few trips pulling thoes boreax wagons. [/QUOTE]
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