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[RC] High-Ties/Spring Ties - Lucy TrumbullMy "high tie" is a Spring Tie and I'm very happy with it.You can see some pics here: http://www.quacky.co.uk/~elsie/2007/Buck-Meadows/IMG_9414a.jpg http://www.quacky.co.uk/~elsie/2007/RoM/IMG_8969b.jpg http://www.quacky.co.uk/~elsie/WashoeValley2007/images/IMG_0204.JPG Travelling alone most of the time, set-up is a cinch and my pone is installed in his temporary home within five minutes of arrival. It takes longer to fill his water bucket than set up the Spring Tie. Roo lies down and wanders around some, and even tried to roll on it this last ride (it made a boinging sound which scared him, so he jumped up, apparently). The first time my mare was tied to it - she didn't realise it was above her and the jingle sound from the snap startled her and she pulled back and sat down. Once she realised it was nothing, she came back up with no ill-effects to her or the tie (unlike the tie-ring on the trailer she sat down on once, which is now bent). I would say your horse would have to be very tall and raise his legs above head height, Trigger-style, to be able to get a leg over it when rearing. I'd be more concerned about him whacking his head on it, if anything. But it doesn't seem to have that effect on them - the pull is high from above, so they don't seem to react that way. Plus both the Spring Tie and the Hi-Tie have built-in springiness to them, so the horse doesn't hit a hard end, it just gets progressively harder to pull against. For this reason, I'm not a fan of the static high-ties that are just an arm that attaches to the side of the trailer (Sky Hooks, I think, f'instance?). Having friends with them, I would agree that the Hi-Tie might be a better product, since it stays permanently mounted to the trailer, while the Spring Tie has to be un-pegged and put away. The Spring Tie is a little heavy to install, but I'm 5'2" and can stand on the running board of my trailer and get it in pretty easily, so it isn't a big deal. As people have pointed out, the Hi-Tie is slightly more versatile in where it can be mounted because of being able to be rotated horizontally and vertically. However, if you have the Spring Tie mounted at the back of your trailer, it also had the ability to be pegged at 90 degree increments, so you could have it stuck out sideways, or sticking out towards the back of the trailer. The Hi-Tie used to be cheaper, but I think they put the price up recently because it seems pretty close in price to the Spring Tie. With regard to bungees, as I was leaving Washoe Valley in the morning last month, I noticed a loose horse near a trailer so went to retrieve it. The owner said it was the horse's first Hi-Tie experience. It seems that the horse had somehow managed to break the bungee (maybe pulling it tight around the back edge of the trailer?) and the elastic had separated out and broken and become tangled in the horse's mane, so that the remaining little section of bungee was still attached to the halter and the mane, causing the horse to have to stand with his head turned sideways. Kind of strange, but it occurred to me that if the horse had been tied with a cotton lead rope, it might not have broken. Roo got loose at NV Moonshine - probably because I didn't attach his snap properly. The Spring Tie comes with a flat nylon tether and I think I might replace it with a normal lead rope with one of those Parelli-type snaps on the end, which can't be inadvertently undone. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Lucy Chaplin Trumbull elsietee AT foothill DOT net Repotted english person in the Sierra foothills, California * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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