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Yea, think you're right - I'm one of those people who "like" to worry, &
hate
it! I dread every time we take the horses somewhere, & say my prayers
for a
safe trip, & return home.
My husband had to slam on the brakes "big time" last May. A little boy
about
4 yrs. old decided to try to cross a busy highway. The smoke from our
brakes
rolled higher in the air than the top of the camper on our truck. I was
in
front of him, driving his company truck - & was locking them up too.
Butch
said he could just see himself coming into my rear end, & pushing me
into the
child.
Thank God when I hit the horn, the boy turned my direction & stopped.
(He was
holding a dandilion, & looking the opposite direction when I'd rounded
the
curve, saw him, & watched him step out.) It's frozen in my mind
forever.
After we "slid" by, he stepped out in front of our friend Pat, pulling
her
rig, but - though she couldn't see around us - she's had sufficent time
to get
stopped. We had only been doing 45!
This all happened less than 3 mi. from home. I was shaking so hard I
could
hardly walk. The horses were violently thrown forward, but it was an
EVEN
pressure. Both walked out without even a bruise.
Connie H.
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From: Zebella
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 1997 12:56 PM
To: Connie Hoge
Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: Re: Slant Loads
Connie Hoge wrote:
> the ditch. Both horses thrown to the tie-side of the trailer. One =
died
with
> a broken neck. Said he would not own one without having a chest bar
> installed!
>
In my opinion, there are more than enough things to worry about without
wasting sleep over this.
Same thing could have happened in a plain stock trailer too, had the
horse been tied sideways or loose right?
We all have heard of horses climbing into the mangers of a 2 horse
straight load and getting hurt, also had a friend with a 2 hs, no manger
(just a chest bar) whose horse climbed over the top of it, and did
enough damage to be put down.
I think you just have to accept that trailering horses is a possibly
dangerous event and live with it. Stuffing 1000 lb animals into tin
cans is pretty crazy at any time when you think about it......
tracy
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