A stout arrangement of leather bands, rope, and iron fixtures built to withstand the tremendous force of oxen pulling stone, timber, or fully laden carts. Unlike horse harness, ox harness employs a yoke or breast collar sized for the beast’s bulk and strength; the traces are double-thick leather, often tarred for durability. Carters, masons, and quarrymen depend on ox harness to move the dead weight that horses cannot budge.
Harness, Ox
Stout leather bands, rope, iron; yoke-fitted; moves stone, timber, heavy laden carts.