Re: picket lines

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

A clarification on chain. For high line, rope that does not reach the ground
would be safest, but horse cannot graze. For grazing stakeout, the safest
would be cable or rope through hose stiff enough so that any loop that forms
will be way too large to close on a leg. Chain, if it is heavy enough can be
used. Rope has a higher potential for problems, and light chain even higher.

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Angela C. McGhee <rides2far@juno.com>
To: vans@cyberspy.com <vans@cyberspy.com>
Cc: ann@cornerstonemgt.com <ann@cornerstonemgt.com>; ridecamp@endurance.net
<ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: picket lines


>
>I have seen a horse royally chewed up by a chain.  Wouldn't be caught
>dead using one.  When I have the long rope tight, and the lead rope where
>it just lets him tug a little to reach the ground all is well.
>
>Angie
>On Sat, 24 Jan 1998 20:05:03 -0500 "Frank W. Vans Evers"
><vans@cyberspy.com> writes:
>>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)
>>
>>--------
>>
>>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
>>
>>--
>>-----------------------------------------------------------
>>Frank W. Vans Evers
>>mailto:vans@cyberspy.com or mailto:vans@ccfs.centcom.mil
>>
>>
>
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