Re: tying to the trailer

["Joe Long" <jlong@mti.net>]

On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:55:00 -0800, "Blankenship, Ann"
<ABlankenship@commerce.ca.gov> wrote:

>I don't know about tying to a trailer without a truck attached to it.
>My cousin tells a funny story about tying one of her working cow horses
>to an unhooked trailer only to look out the window to see the horse
>walking along with the trailer in tow...   Of course, this WAS a cow
>horse so maybe he thought he was roping or something.  I guess I'd just
>say to block the trailer VERY securely.

Also, I run the picket rope over the roof of the trailer and out at
about a ninety degree angle, so the horse cannot get any effective
force in the direction of the wheels.  This also keeps the rope
higher.

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