Re: RC: safe loading in a slant load

[luv2ride@tds.net]

Most of the slant load trailers I have seen have a butt bar/chain.  You
simply load the horse (w/o going in), attach the butt bar, close the
door and then go around and tie the horse if you prefer.  I don't see
what the problem is unless your particular trailer doesn't have a butt
bar.  I've only see one that didn't, and it was a cheapie with no rear
tack and the one large door that in my opinion could be a nightmare to
close on a windy day.

If you buy the better made slant load trailers, you'll find them to be
very well configured.

I often haul 2 & 3 horses each weekend and load them by myself without
any problems.

Dee

Dbeverly4@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 3/27/00 3:40:19 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> mountss@usfca.edu writes:
> 
> <<   There is no
>  divider to keep him in place.  Is there any alternative to tying him,
>  stepping out of the trailer, going over to get that "huge" door, and then
>  closing it?  Seems like that gives the rear horse a long time to think
>  about "setting back" before I get him closed in. >>
> 
> Yup -- and on a windy day, if your trailer is facing the wrong direction,
> that door can be nearly impossible to catch and close without doing yourself
> serious bodily harm.
> 
> Sylvia
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Dee 

Frisky Filly Farm
Sand Rock, AL