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I totally agree with you - don't feel guilty for wanting to enjoy your time at a barrel race! I quit hauling with friends several years ago. Occasionally, I do haul with someone but I'm very picky! To me, it's worth the peace of mind to pay the extra diesel. I figure I have a better shot at winning money and making a good run without all of the stress of hauling with others.
Enjoy!
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | I've hauled by myself for years. Too much hassle to haul with someone. I like meeting friends at the barrel race. |
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| I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only one, too! I hauled locally by myself for a while, but usually hauled with a friend to farther away places. It was nice to split fuel, have someone to talk to on the late, dark drive home. But now that I've got a truck and trailer I feel comfortable hauling longer distances with, I'm heading out on my own. Like the others said, I have always forgotten a breast collar, a boot, a hoof pick, a jacket when the sun goes down, and feel bad having to borrow. But, my favorite thing about hauling alone, is I can tie my horse wherever I want! I'm real laid back too, and want to enjoy my weekends with my horse. I do not want to stress about all that crap every weekend when hauling my own crap in my own rig would solve it. It's not worth 1/2 the fuel. |
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Location: Kansas | I have found....that there can be quite a bit of butthurt on the haul home....especially if one or the other wins, and the other doesn't place.....not a fun ride home lol. I haul alone, I like it that way. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | i haul by myself...for a couple reasons..i take my dogs and half my barn..lol..and i dont live close to anybody...........
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Location: southeast Texas | My dog doesn't like many people. Safer to haul alone.
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | I always haul my horse by myself, but I have a friend that has LQ (I currently do not) and when we go (in different rigs) to bigger races I bunk with her. The sleeping on a popup bed sucks big time, but when you have two people doing the unloading process at big shows it helps a ton! She settles the horses in the stalls and I tote the tack and feed. Then in the mornings (I'm an earlier riser) I go off and do the feed/hay/watering and she stays back and makes coffee and gets whatever we're having for breakfast ready. It's a perfect set up for now... but I probably won't my mind alone time when I have my own LQ!
It would have to be someone that I'm really, really good friends with and can make easy conversation with to haul with. I'm a talker and silence for long periods of time starts to make me uneasy... and you better be able to handle my singing.
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | hoofs_in_motion - 2015-05-11 2:15 PM I have found....that there can be quite a bit of butthurt on the haul home....especially if one or the other wins, and the other doesn't place.....not a fun ride home lol. I haul alone, I like it that way.
I've always been a cheerleader for my friends and have never been an ahole to any of them when they would do good and I did squat. I would actually be happy for them.
I had 2 friends that hauled together all the time and I would meet them there. One had a lot of money and was always mounted and very seldom didn't bring home a check. The other lady started barrel racing late in life and just kept getting better and better and then it happened...she won a saddle at a big race and the other did squat. The normal winner had a hissy fit and wanted to pack up and leave as soon as she made her last run. Told the other lady that she could pay to have them send the saddle if she won it. I told my friend to tell the other lady to go ahead and go home and I would stay and take her home. I guess it guilted the other friend and she did stay but the winner said it was the longest ride home ever and she felt guilty looking at the first saddle she won sitting in the back seat...People can really suck.. |
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| I hauled with a gal once.......never again...she drove 90 mph the whole way on a two lane road while looking at facebook on her phone......I thought I was going to die, along with my most precious equine partner. Then when we got there it took her an hour just to do her hair in the morning and then another hour to do her makeup. I was way over that. lol |
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Location: on my horse | Longneck - 2015-05-11 2:34 PM
I always haul my horse by myself, but I have a friend that has LQ (I currently do not) and when we go (in different rigs) to bigger races I bunk with her. The sleeping on a popup bed sucks big time, but when you have two people doing the unloading process at big shows it helps a ton! She settles the horses in the stalls and I tote the tack and feed. Then in the mornings (I'm an earlier riser) I go off and do the feed/hay/watering and she stays back and makes coffee and gets whatever we're having for breakfast ready. It's a perfect set up for now... but I probably won't my mind alone time when I have my own LQ!
It would have to be someone that I'm really, really good friends with and can make easy conversation with to haul with. I'm a talker and silence for long periods of time starts to make me uneasy... and you better be able to handle my singing.
YES the singing! I honestly think that's the reason I haul alone for the most part, nobody else can handle the singing but the dog  |
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 Living within my means
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Location: Randolph, Utah | I have a very select few that I can haul with, especially for an overnight race. Most of the time I prefer to go alone or my sister and I go together. We have a system that works for us. I prefer to drive, last time I let someone I didn't know well drive she was more concerned about how much smoke she could get the truck to blow than watching the road! If my sister and I go we are usually full. But I've been known to throw in an extra horse so I'l don't have room, bad I know but sometimes it's hard to say no.
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Location: Texas | My best friend I can go anywhere with. She has a different aproach with how she does things but we just go with it. I'm the worrier and she has no care in the world lol. We have been best friends since elementary school. Everything we do is a competition, we know it... everyone knows it. We will seriously compete at everything, from fastest times to who has the tighter grouping when shooting lol. It works for us though because the loser is never a sore loser and the winner doesn't rub it in. We are happy for the other person winning but the winner is gracious... if that makes sense. We are both the personality that if the winner started rubbing it in we would probably come to blows, we get serious lol.
When we were younger we were both competing for Queen. Me and my mom would go pick her and her horse up and we would practice the pattern together. My mom with a background in halter helped both of us get out horses looking the best they could the day of the competition. I won, she was sad but it never hurt our friendship. My point with that is we aren't against helping the other. We want to beat the other person on an even level, because we truly want to be better then the other person in what ever we are doing lol. It isn't much of a fair match if the other has tons of practice or an advantage of some sort.
Now that being said. Once I was running late so she offered for her and her boyfriend to swing by my house and pick up me and my horse. It was only about a mile trip, I didn't think anything of it. Well her idiot boyfriend beat the snot out of my horse with the trailer ride. I knew he was a moron but I had no clue how big of one. This dude gave my poor horse the roughest trailer ride of his life in a 1 mile span. I backed my horse off the trailer and he was missing hair all over his head. I'm surprised he didn't come out of the trailer knocked silly. The horse was missing a few screws already, he didn't need any help lol.
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| I just use the excuse that I haul mares who are hormonal or a stallion who is 3. (Even though he stands tied quieter than the dingbat mares do.) Keeps most people from begging me to be their hauling buddy. |
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| banjomia - 2015-05-11 3:42 PM
I hauled with a gal once.......never again...she drove 90 mph the whole way on a two lane road while looking at facebook on her phone......I thought I was going to die, along with my most precious equine partner. Then when we got there it took her an hour just to do her hair in the morning and then another hour to do her makeup. I was way over that. lol
If someone drove 90 while on Facebook I think I would have ridden my horse home. |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| Nevertooold - 2015-05-11 3:40 PM
hoofs_in_motion - 2015-05-11 2:15 PM I have found....that there can be quite a bit of butthurt on the haul home....especially if one or the other wins, and the other doesn't place.....not a fun ride home lol. I haul alone, I like it that way.
I've always been a cheerleader for my friends and have never been an ahole to any of them when they would do good and I did squat. I would actually be happy for them.
I had 2 friends that hauled together all the time and I would meet them there. One had a lot of money and was always mounted and very seldom didn't bring home a check. The other lady started barrel racing late in life and just kept getting better and better and then it happened...she won a saddle at a big race and the other did squat. The normal winner had a hissy fit and wanted to pack up and leave as soon as she made her last run. Told the other lady that she could pay to have them send the saddle if she won it. I told my friend to tell the other lady to go ahead and go home and I would stay and take her home. I guess it guilted the other friend and she did stay but the winner said it was the longest ride home ever and she felt guilty looking at the first saddle she won sitting in the back seat...People can really suck..
This is sad - women can sure be b*tches.
I haul alone, I don't want to pack all my crap into somebody else's trailer and I like to arrive early, park where I want to, stop when I want to, etc. |
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