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Re: [RC] Hi Tie Systems - Lysane CreeI have a Hi-Tie and it is sold by Sportack. I love mine, have had it for about three years now. It was easy to install, we did at home. It doesn't rattle or make noise when the horse is tied. My mare does not tend to lie down often at rides and that just may be because she is away from home, but she has rolled on the hi-tie and the rope stays straight and doesn't get tangled in the legs. Of course, part of that has to do with the length of rope that you give the horse - the snap should just touch the ground if you pull on your rope when it is attached to the Hi-Tie. Personally I don't use the bungee strap and tie my cotton lead rope directly to the hi-tie. Now my horse ties very well, has been taught to give to pressure and doesn't normally freak out if she gets caught up in
something, but leave it to a horse to find the one possible way to get hurt on a " nearly impossible to get hurt" thing.
I was tieing my mare up using a regular halter, so the snap on the lead would be under her chin. I always made sure the rope was just right and not too long for her to get tangled up should she roll or lie down. BUT one afternoon she decided she had an itchy ear and she turned her head back toward her butt and brought up a hind foot to scratch her ear - this put enough slack in the rope that her foot went over the rope and the rope got stuck under her fetlock. She seems to have tried to get unstuck, hopping around, to no avail and ended up tangling herself up even more and was half sitting half lying on the ground with one hind leg way up. So far, not too too bad. We had all just gone up to dinner but luckily one person at their trailer saw her tangled up and yelled so several of us ran down. My mare was just laying there, not fighting, until the first person to get to her went up to her and tried to unclip the rope (she has a bit of
an aversion to strangers), then she freaked and started fighting. Duh. So the person backed off and luckily had a knife handy and cut the rope from further back. She ended up with a rope burn which looked horrible, but healed fairly quickly. At least with a cotton rope, the damage was not as bad as it could have been with a nylon rope. The Hi-Tie arm itself was almost bent in half while my mare was tangled up and did not break. It sprung back up into place as soon as the rope was cut. I did notice later that a bolt was a little loose on the attachment, but given that a 1000 pound horse had just leaned all of her weight on it, it wasn't alot of damage.
Now, I am using a lunging cavesson instead of a plain halter, so that the rope is clipped on the front of the nose. I got this tip from someone who hi-lines their horse and also had to deal nasty rope burns at one time.
As others will tell, no system is foolproof when it comes to horses, but the Hi-Tie is a good one.
Lysane
From: Angela Lewis <amccorkle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 1:19:29 PM Subject: [RC] Hi Tie Systems Can anyone tell me where they purchased the Hi Tie system and if there are more then one which ones are the best?
Thanks Angela
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