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In Sweden, one municipal government has hired two horses to replace many different specialized cars, tractors, and landscaping machines. They work 350 hours a year and costs about half to one third in "fuel" of one single normal municipal car. They are also a hit with locals. 
Since there has not been much commercial demand for professional use-horse powered machines they buy their tools handmade from Amish mechanics in the U.S.: they are the only ones who have kept inventing and improving new horse powered tools for a century or longer.
The municipal government own many sensitive fields, that needs to be cared for properly. Using large tractors on these lands would quickly ruin them forever, as they compact the soil: horses have no negative effect on the soil and do the work of dozens of men with hand tools.
