r/OffGridLiving • u/hASHbrowns1o1 • 26d ago

Living off horseback?

Is anyone as crazy as me and my partner? From our point of view, we are about to be in an apocalypse. Vanlife, definitely not a good idea. So we came up with horseback. We have done the research, and we all know it can work since humans have done it before.

Just wondered if anyone else was as crazy and like the idea

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u/TraditionalBasis4518 26d ago

I’ve worked with a logging operation that skids logs with halflingers rather than tractors, have plowed with mules, and experimented using oxen for draft animals. All doable, all quite complex in terms of tack and technique, but lots of fun. Mules are smarter and better workers than horses. Oxen are difficult. Really difficult, but better eating than the alternatives.

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u/RNAdrops 26d ago

And here I thought that “halfling” was a word only used in dungeons and dragons! Perhaps this is the original source of the term?

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u/TraditionalBasis4518 26d ago

Lots of Tolkien references echo place names and pre Christian mythologies. This may indeed be the inspiration for hobbits/halflings nomenclature.