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Originally posted by wolf
If you're going to hitch a team of horses to the cart, the tongue goes into a thingy in between the collars.
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No, that only works with an oxbow. With horses the tongue would be attached to a triple tree. The first tree (crossbar) hooks to the tongue from the middle and each end hooks to the center of another tree. The second and third trees hook to the horse collars with traces (straps/chains) so that it pulls evenly on both sides of the collars. The purpose of the triple tree is to put an even load on each horse even though they aren't exactly side by side. A 40 mule team would use 20 triple trees. 
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