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yes, our stock trailer when I was growing up was a gooseneck, and I 
could trive it as a minor.  But it was/is 20 ft long, not 30+ and it 
was a stock trailer (we didn't worry if we had to go tru a dip that 
bottomed it out.)  and it sure aint worth more than a modest (but 
still nice) house in small town nebraska, kansas, oklahoma ....  I 
was thinking of upgrading my p/u this fall, but when I jumped into 
it to take it for servicing and cringed at all the droppings on it I 
thought -nah -you dont want to have an $$$$ pick-up when you dont 
have an oversized garage to park it in, and same thing with a LQ 
trailer.  I dont know 'bout everyone else but I track mud and dirt 
into my p/u camper and spill elytes as I'm mixing them on the 
counter surfaces ... at rides I wouldn't want one of the fancy LQ 
trailers they sell to "show people? " with cherry cupboards, fully 
carpeted and the like, I prefer my old beater that I dont mind 
'using hard', though of course I wouldn't mind having more space.

Teresa (the horses get some spoiling but the p/u sure doesnt in my 
world)


heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Ahhh,  Finally we've got the real reason that point-to-point
> > multidays declined.  Folks started getting LQ trailers instead of
> > tenting or buying old, relatively check p/u campers and stock-sized  b/p
> > trailers that any competent ranch kid could pull and didn't cost  as
> > much as a modest house.
>
>
> Have you checked out what the ranch kids are pulling these days?  Most of
> the ranch kids up here can finesse a gooseneck full of calvy cows in and
> out of spots that would give most drivers the vapors, and never stop them
> chewing their cuds.
>
> Guess that must be one of the regional differences--we still can find
> folks up here in the NW who drive stuff like that and who want to come
> along for the week, make some $$ driving, and see how the nutty suburban
> endurance folks live so they can go home and giggle about us for the rest
> of the year.  <vbg>  And most of 'em know which end of the horse the feed
> goes in, too, in case a few folks have spare horses along for the ride.
>
> We always seemed to be able to come up with a driving crew up here that
> would fill up a Suburban for transporting if we needed more rigs driven
> than we had drivers.  (And we hated to get TOO many, since it cut into the
> $$ that they could make.)
>
> Heidi



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