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Location: Florida.. | winwillows - 2015-10-27 6:37 PM There is a difference in how different disciplines haul. My daughters had a 4Star dealership. They took an Outlaw LQ with a big mid tack room and a big Warmblood sized straight load in back to The Pebble Beach Dressage show. You would have thought that they had brought a space ship. Most people were amazed by that trailer. Most of the riders did not haul their own horses to the show, their trainers hauled the horses for them. Those that did haul had very simple trailers behind a Suburban or other SUV. There was only one LQ in the parking lot. Most western discipline horse people haul their own horses, and would love to own a nice LQ. I remember one woman at that show saying that she could easily own her own trailer for what she paid her trainer to haul her horse, but had never really thought about it.
not offended at all.. i think it depends on the person and area.LOL we haul all ours .. yes some of our client students might pay to have theirs hauled and we bring our huge trailers and stay in our LQs and the grooms stay in the RV.. so not sure where all this sterotyping is coming from.. but its really just anybody.. alot of the western here haul in a old beat up stock trailer they haul cows in to.. so go figure.. LOL.. |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | The old saying comes to mind "It's not what you pull up in... it's what you pull out of your trailer"
To the OP... accidents happen, I'd get the horse trailer checked out to see what the issues were. I had a 2 horse that one flipped over in and broke the back door open and my trailer was new... the mare was a 14.1 cow horse that weighed 850lbs. She wasn't used to being hauled and got caught in the manger. Your hauling animals with minds of their own. |
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| Runninbay - 2015-10-27 6:41 PM
This whole thread is a good representation of our society.
You people are getting offended over NOTHING. Good lord. 
I'm offended that you're offended that everyone else is offended. |
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Location: CTX | Just Plain Lucky - 2015-10-27 8:33 PM Runninbay - 2015-10-27 6:41 PM
This whole thread is a good representation of our society.
You people are getting offended over NOTHING. Good lord.
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| cranky B4 10am - 2015-10-27 9:39 PM Just Plain Lucky - 2015-10-27 8:33 PM Runninbay - 2015-10-27 6:41 PM
This whole thread is a good representation of our society.
You people are getting offended over NOTHING. Good lord.
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Location: CTX | Just Plain Lucky - 2015-10-27 8:41 PM cranky B4 10am - 2015-10-27 9:39 PM Just Plain Lucky - 2015-10-27 8:33 PM Runninbay - 2015-10-27 6:41 PM
This whole thread is a good representation of our society.
You people are getting offended over NOTHING. Good lord.
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Location: Georgia | Just Plain Lucky - 2015-10-27 9:33 PM Runninbay - 2015-10-27 6:41 PM
This whole thread is a good representation of our society.
You people are getting offended over NOTHING. Good lord.
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Location: Montana | cranky B4 10am - 2015-10-27 7:39 PM Just Plain Lucky - 2015-10-27 8:33 PM Runninbay - 2015-10-27 6:41 PM This whole thread is a good representation of our society.
You people are getting offended over NOTHING. Good lord.
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Location: CTX | mtcanchazer - 2015-10-27 10:43 PM
cranky B4 10am - 2015-10-27 7:39 PM Just Plain Lucky - 2015-10-27 8:33 PM Runninbay - 2015-10-27 6:41 PM This whole thread is a good representation of our society.
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Location: Oklahoma | Working for a trailer manufacturer, we see the discipline differences. Many english people prefer a straight load trailer, either bumper pull or goose neck. Some will do slant loads, but, the most common is a 7'6" tall straight load. You find fewer living quarters due to the fact that they split hotel fees. |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | Rule #1: Never ever tie a horse in a trailer if they're not locked in..
Rule #2: Tie long enough they can reach the butt bar
Rule #3: Don't open the butt bar/divider until they're untied.
The reason is they pull back when they're not comfortable with being in the trailer and if they get to the end of the rope they panic even more.
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Location: Dearing, GA | Fairweather - 2015-10-28 9:08 AM Rule #1: Never ever tie a horse in a trailer if they're not locked in..
Rule #2: Tie long enough they can reach the butt bar
Rule #3: Don't open the butt bar/divider until they're untied.
The reason is they pull back when they're not comfortable with being in the trailer and if they get to the end of the rope they panic even more.
This is allllll that needed to be said.
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| I knew someone who loaded a quarter running horse into a two horse side by side and before he could drive off the horse backed out of the trailer; he didn't kick he just put his entire weight against it and came out. I don't know what kind of butt bar they had but chains were popular at the time. This was in the days of just about everyone pulling that type of trailer and it was in good shape. The horse had started sitting down in the starting gates-guess he got claustrophobic. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Some people don’t ever think to check the hinges on the doors of their older trailers. We were given an older steel trailer (about 8 years old) to use while we waited for 4-Star to get our new one delivered. My husband drove up to get it at the dealer and after he backed it into the parking space at home, the back door FELL OFF…..Fortunately, there were no horses in the trailer or it didn’t come off while he was driving down the road. We had to weld new hinges on the door. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I remember my dad making me get out before pulling away from the barn and also before we pulled out of our gate at the end of the drive. He made me pull on all the doors and pull on the center gate of our stock trailer when we hauled the horses anywhere to make sure it was latched good. Sometimes I would have to relatch the center gate and the escape door. The ONE TIME I didn't check all the doors, the escape door came open and ripped our bed up and tore the door compltely off the hinges....We were pulling out of the gate. I got to pay for that by working for my dad that summer...
I do the check twice before pulling out of the gate now because it's habit and because I borrow my Dad's trailer to haul with. Haven't had a problem yet. Knock on wood. I check all the lights now too. I got to a jackpot two hours one way from home to figure out I had a short in the lights and they didn't work... I got to drive home with only flashers... Talk about scary. |
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Location: Willows, CA | I think I can top this. Years ago, when my daughters were small we used to haul to get our cutting horses on cattle about four days a week. My wife took the pickup and trailer to one of the girls basketball games in town one night because they were late getting back from riding and did not take the time to unhook our old Charmac steel gooseneck from the truck after they unloaded the horses. I met them at the game. When it was over I left about five minutes after they did and caught up with them down the street standing behind the trailer looking at a wide open space. The trailer had one big back door, and it was gone. Now, it is hard to lose a whole back door. I had driven down the same street and did not see it anywhere. It turned out that when the trailer tires hit a pot hole a block earlier the badly worn latch and loose hinges had simply bounced the door up and off of the back of the trailer. The door then slid on the street and stopped up against the curb. A Mexican gentleman, who was extremely drunk, drove up and PARKED his Ford Pinto on top of the door, got out and went into his house. We had to get him to come out and move his car to get our rear door back. He was so drunk that he moved his car, left it running and went back inside. I shut off his car and put his keys in his mailbox. I put the door back on the back of the trailer and bought a new latch for it the next day. The only damage were some scrapes to the inside of it where is slid on the street.
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Location: Central Texas | winwillows - 2015-10-29 12:11 PM I think I can top this. Years ago, when my daughters were small we used to haul to get our cutting horses on cattle about four days a week. My wife took the pickup and trailer to one of the girls basketball games in town one night because they were late getting back from riding and did not take the time to unhook our old Charmac steel gooseneck from the truck after they unloaded the horses. I met them at the game. When it was over I left about five minutes after they did and caught up with them down the street standing behind the trailer looking at a wide open space. The trailer had one big back door, and it was gone. Now, it is hard to lose a whole back door. I had driven down the same street and did not see it anywhere. It turned out that when the trailer tires hit a pot hole a block earlier the badly worn latch and loose hinges had simply bounced the door up and off of the back of the trailer. The door then slid on the street and stopped up against the curb. A Mexican gentleman, who was extremely drunk, drove up and PARKED his Ford Pinto on top of the door, got out and went into his house. We had to get him to come out and move his car to get our rear door back. He was so drunk that he moved his car, left it running and went back inside. I shut off his car and put his keys in his mailbox. I put the door back on the back of the trailer and bought a new latch for it the next day. The only damage were some scrapes to the inside of it where is slid on the street. Beat that story. I swear it is true.
Ok let me try......
Many years ago I was helping my father in law (now ex) hook up his stock trailer because he was going to the sale barn. While hooking up I noticed that he didn't have any saftey chains and made the mistake of commenting about it. I got an ear full of how he had been doing this his whole life and he knew what he was doing. I realized I had struck a nerve in questioning him and just shut up and continued on. Fast forward to sale...he buys a couple of heifers and we load up. I am a freak about checking doors and hitches so I go to walk around the trailer and do my check and he tells me it's fine and to get in the truck. On the way home I look back and there is NO TRAILER. Serious, no lie, it is not there. It was an old bumper pull stock trailer and the little pin that is in the bulldog hitch that allows the hitch to open so it can sit down on the ball had fallen out. We were all very lucky that we were on a back road and no one was behind us. The trailer was off in a ditch and the hitch had buried up in the ground and it appeared to have just come to a stop. No people or animals were harmed but it took everything I had to not say I told you so. |
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