Ridecamp: [RC] When A Horse Trips...

<<<I guess I wonder how a 100 to 200 pound person that might be able to lift 
say 50 to 150 pounds max can pull up 600 pounds (60% of a 1000 pound horse 
which is about what the front end weighs) out of the dirt using two thin 
pieces of leather or biothane which might have a tensile strength of 100 
pounds each. .>>>

Truman:

I'm no physicist, but I suspect the reason it can be done is the same way a 
fulcrum (sp?) works.  (By the way, thanks for thinking I could be a 100 lb 
person :-)  When my horse trips, I instinctively sit back,  behind the 
center of gravity of the horse.  And wait, to see if they need help or not.  
Sometimes he recovers on his own, sometimes not.  This does happen very 
quickly, but I'm not sure as fast as you have said it does.

Carolyn Burgess





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