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Provided it slides loose without fileting your arm in the process.



--- On Mon, 10/20/08, Mike Sherrell <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Mike Sherrell <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: FW: [RC] hard headed horses
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 2:36 PM

I guess if you're dumb enough you'll wrap it around your arm in such a
way
that it won't slide loose if you let go of it.

Signed,

Soapdish.


Regards,
 
Mike Sherrell
Grizzly Analytical (USA)
www.grizzlyanalytical.com
707 887 2919; fax = 707 887 9834

-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Elizabeth Walker
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 2:28 PM
To: Ridecamp
Subject: Re: [RC] hard headed horses

I have to second this.  I was taught the same thing - NEVER wrap the rope
around any part of your body - EVER.  For that matter, I don't even lead a
horse with my hand where it can get wrapped; i.e., holding a loop of rope.
Instead, I always fold the rope so my fingers are on the outside of all the
loops.  (I know a friend who is missing the last joint of her thumb because
she got it caught in a loop of lead rope).

I'm not very big, and not very strong, and even an 800 lb Arab outweighs me
nearly 8 to 1.  The method I was shown was to thread the rope through the
tie ring inside the trailer, out the manger door to the outside tie ring on
the side, and then back to the handler.  The frame of the trailer provides
the friction.  However, if the horse decides to pull back with everything it
has, and that rope is wrapped around my arm, I'm going to get yanked off my
feet, and my arm is going to impact that tie ring on the outside of the
trailer.  Not good.  Amputating a thumb sounded bad enough.  I'm not in the
market for amputating my hand via blunt force trauma.


On Oct 20, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Melissa Margetts Ms. Kitty wrote:

> about getting a hard headed horse into a trailer
>
> Mike Sherrell wrote:   "When she moves an inch, immediately take up  
> the slack. Keep as much tension on the ropes as possible (i.e., wrap 
> them around your forearm and lean hard) "
>
> DAMN! I am no professional trainer, but this recommendation is one 
> that seems like you would have to have the IQ of a soapdish to use.
> "Wrap the taught rope around your arm") and we are talking about

> horses that already have issues about getting in, bolt backwards, pull 
> away etc. I was always taught to never, ever, ever wrap a lead rope of 
> any kind around your hand or arm when working with livestock. Kat is 
> right, if the rope doesn't break, your arm just might, or you might 
> get inadvertently caught up and pulled around attached a frantic 
> flailing horse in close quarters.
>
> Melissa Margetts
> Telluride Colorado
>
>
>
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