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| Does any of you haul your horses saddled for short distances? (40 min. ride? ) |
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Location: East Texas | Normally no, but we hauled yesterday on a 15 minute ride in the stock trailer. Working on the ranch we hauled our working horses saddled up.
Edited by CrossDRanch 2018-04-18 11:34 AM
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| It depends on the situation, but yes we do. Use common sense and you'll be fine. |
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Location: MN | I do it quite often. Like the poster above said, just use some common sense and you should be good  |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | In a open stock trailer we did it all the time for a short distance but not in a slant load or a two horse. Like the others said common sense gos a long ways.. |
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Location: Texas | I live with team ropers so yap all the time |
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Location: Texas | yes |
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Location: Aubrey, Texas | I have if it’s a short distance and the weather is not too hot. If you do, be sure to cross your stirrups up over the seat so you don’t catch one when your horse is backing out-
Edited by cloverleaf 2018-04-18 8:52 PM
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | We always use a stock trailer but between ranching and my min haul to town being an hour, ours will stand saddles for hours. We'll gather to brand and leave them saddled for 4 hrs or so and then move them to pasture again. I never have had an issue. I like to do it on young horses. Let then soak a bit, clears the mind :) |
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| In our stock trailer we do, usually don’t in the slant load but we have when we’re just running into the fairgrounds in town and they’re already saddled from one thing or another. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | If we’re hauling in the stock trailer we do. No matter the distance. But generally don’t pull stock trailer more than an hour or so. It’s open so they’ll be cool. In the winter I saddle and put their blankets over them. If we pulling the lq trailer I don’t saddle just because it isn’t as open therefor hotter and there isn’t as much room. |
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Location: Arkansas | That is my "go-to" for colts--especially ones that need a little of the "fresh" knocked off of them, LOL. I'll also saddle my old rope horse at the house if it's cold and I haven't ridden him in a little while (he can still be a tad broncy if conditions are right). The "good" barrel horse usually gets the luxury of riding unsaddled. |
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| I have on occasion. Of course, when working cows the horses are saddled very early in the morning, loaded up and wear that saddle til day is done and don’t get unsaddled til they get back to the barn.
Also, I have a friend with an extremely talented barrel horse, but he can be rank some times. She’ll saddle and make him wear it for the trip. She does it specifically to keep him humble...gives a whole new attitude. |
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Location: Kansas | Not usually, unless we are checking cows...then load on the trailer with the saddle, drive a few miles, and unload |
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| AshleyJ2911 - 2018-04-18 12:16 PM
I live with team ropers so yap all the time
Word! |
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Location: Willows, CA | Not to shows with the cutters, but yes on ranch work. We have never had an issue, but are careful. |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | I won’t in my current trailer as it’s too narrow but I did a few times when I had a stock trailer. |
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| Don’t do it, your mouthy horse will work the lead til he can reach the new saddle on your other horse and chew on it-true story.
This was the only time I ever hauled saddled in my stock trailer, my LQ slant was in the shop.
I have lots of friends who haul saddled, no problems |
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| All the time in the stock trailer. I do not think everything would fit in my slant.
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| rodeomom3 - 2018-04-19 7:18 PM
Don’t do it, your mouthy horse will work the lead til he can reach the new saddle on your other horse and chew on it-true story.
This was the only time I ever hauled saddled in my stock trailer, my LQ slant was in the shop.
I have lots of friends who haul saddled, no problems
Ughhh LOL. Our younger one is a "chewer" but hopefully being tied up he won't reach the other one's saddle  |
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Location: Texas | Yes, often. |
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| AshleyJ2911 - 2018-04-18 12:16 PM
I live with team ropers so yap all the time
I had never seen it before I started boarding at a barn full of team ropers. The barn also holds jackpots all summer long, and just about everybody showed up with their horses already tacked up in all kinds of trailers.
My biggest concern would be catching a stirrup while backing out and either destroying the saddle or harming the horse. |
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | Yes, all the time. We live in a big ranching community so often go help friends brand or works cows. My horses were saddled at 6AM yesterday, hauled 20 miles down the road, gathered cows stayed saddled while we branded and finally got unsaddled about 2PM. If I am hauling into town to ride, 15 miles I will saddle them before I leave the house sometimes. |
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hauling with the saddle on