Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Malm, Meyer, Roehl
----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 6/29/2022
Loyal 10-horse Pyramid Hitch Returns Home (2022)
The Meyer Farms 10-Horse Belgian Pyramid Hitch will parade around the show ring twice a day at Wisconsin Farm Technology Days in the Equine Arena. The show will take place at Roehl Acres just outside of Loyal,
July 12-14. Valorie Brecht/Clark County Press
The year was 2005. Clark County was hosting County Farm Technology Days at Malm’s Rolling Acres just north of Loyal. A new feature at the show was the Meyer Farms 10-Horse Belgian Pyramid Hitch, with Randy Meyer of Loyal at the reins.
The hitch started as a novelty class at the Central Wisconsin State Fair a few years earlier. While the class was held only a few years at the fair, the Meyers were game to hitch it twice a day each day at the 2005 show. Since then, the hitch has been featured at a number of Farm Technology Days, most recently at Wood County in 2018. It has also appeared at numerous fairs and festivals across Wisconsin, including the Midwest Horse Fair and most recently the Dairyfest Parade in Marshfield.
The unique hitch has the 10 horses in a “bowling pin” configuration: one leader, a pair behind the leader, a team of three behind them and four on the wheel (closest to the wagon). No horse is directly to the front of another. The teamster has four sets of lines in his hands, one pair for each tier of horses. Originally driven by Randy, son Kris now handles the lines, assisted by his son, Ty.
The Meyer Farms 10-Horse Belgian Pyramid will hitch twice each day in the Equine Arena at Wisconsin Farm Technology Days, July 12, 13 and 14 at Roehl Acres in Clark County.
