Re: loading into slant load (long)

[David LeBlanc <dleblanc@mindspring.com>]

At 01:59 PM 3/27/00 -0800, superpat wrote:
>Hi David,
>I have a 3 horse Charmac slant load gooseneck and other than having to learn
>to drive it without taking out every fencepost of every driveway I entered,
>I have loved it from the start. 

Our new trailer is HUGE.  The box is 30 ft. long - the old trailer was 16
ft long, and is a whole different driving experience!  There are driveways
I'm just not going to tackle in that thing.  If I have to go there, I'll
hook up the old trailer.

>I think the key to any safe trailer loading, straight or slant is
>*training*. 

Well - the horses all load really nicely.  We can load them up into just
about anything.  It is just a lot different loading into a slant than a
stock trailer, so the real problem here is training the humans to figure
out just what the heck we're doing with this newfangled contraption.  We've
loaded and unloaded exactly twice now, so this is all new...


David LeBlanc
dleblanc@mindspring.com