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RE: [RC] [RC] [RC] Hi Tie / Corral - terry banister

If the horse gets a hind leg over the rope, as you have it now, how do you unhook it quickly?
Why do you need to hang water buckets on the trailer? Why not just set a muck bucket or tub of water on the ground?

Terry
"May the horse be with you"

From: DreamWeaver <nvrider@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "terry banister" <terrybanister@xxxxxxxxxxx>, ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [RC] [RC] Hi Tie / Corral
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:45:28 -0800

Please see the website link that I posted and read my comments that are linked here: http://members.tripod.com/ridephotos/horse/ties.html and here: http://members.tripod.com/ridephotos/horse/karenscomments.html

As far as that velcro giving away. Sometimes it gives away too easily, and sometimes it won't give away at all. When my horse (this was several years ago) went down on a tie after scratching an ear and putting his hind leg over the rope (something he did only once, they do learn) the velcro did not give away, but the arm bent (the old trailer ties). The velcro literally had a thousand pound horse pulling down on it and it did not give! In several cases the bungee ties or the tie arms themselves have broken before the velcro gave way. It all depends upon which angle it is pulled from.

I would not recommend using a bungee tie of any type with a trailer-tie (or any kind of a tie-arm on a trailer). That is just my opinion. My own horses have literally spent months and months of nights on their hi-ties (and before that, the trailer-ties) and I won't put them on a bungee. Absolutely not. I've seen too many horses and people hurt.

Karen
in NV

P.S. when you use the velcro, be aware that it comes undone much more easily if it is wet or after having been rained on.

At 04:57 PM 1/15/2004, terry banister wrote:
OK, it sounds like you are referring to the use of bungee tie on the side of the trailer, not the overhead HiTie product that comes with its own bungee, which attaches to the rod at the top by very strong VELCRO, and designed to come loose, but if pulled on that hard (before the bungee could break).
The combination of the flexible fiberglass arm and the bungee line pretty much negates the pull-back mentality (along with the fact that they can turn around to see what they are worrying about in the first place). But if the horse were somehow motivated to run blindly at full speed from a HiTie, the top of the bungee is attached by very strong VELCRO that will break away, but it takes a huge effort. So don't worry about using the HiTie as it was designed (with the bungee).
Terry
"May the Horse be with you"


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