Re: picket lines

["Duncan Fletcher" <dfletche@gte.net>]

The secret to using a chain is to use a fairly heavy one. The weight of the
chain causes it to slide off the hoof should a loop form - a light chain is
likely to remain looped around the foot. It still isn't fail proof, and from
the stories posted on this list, nothing is.

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank W. Vans Evers <vans@cyberspy.com>


>If yu have room for a picket line, what about a light chain and a ground
>stake? A chain won't bunch up around a horses feet, a 10 foot chain give
>a 20' circle, what do you think?
>
>/s/ Frank (seffner Florida)
>
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>
>Ann Perry wrote:
>>
>> Just read Lucy's bad picket line story and thought I'd come out of lurk
mode
>> for a minute. I've never used a picket line, but have had problems with
>> tying to the trailer--line gets caught under fender, horse panics and
pulls
>> back, breaking snap, making people sleeping in camper think it's an
>> earthquake, etc. I'd get a Horsin' Around corral if I could
justify/afford
>> it; but until then what about a picket line? They do look like an
accident
>> waiting to happen. All that rope AND a horse! However, last year in
>> Endurance News there was info on a picket system you can buy that uses
>> pulleys and weights to keep the slack out of the halter rope. Looked like
it
>> might help. I have the info (somewhere) and will try to find it if
anyone's
>> interested. I most likely will try it myself this summer. Has anybody
seen
>> or used it?
>>
>> Back to lurk mode,
>> Ann
>
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