Re: Horror story: Featherlite Trailer

["Susan Swope" <PARROTPLACE@prodigy.net>]

Wow, that's really sad about the horse.

I do have a 1997 Featherlite slant load.  No vertical bars in this one.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill & Dee Fortner <wfortner@peop.tds.net>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: Horror story: Featherlite Trailer


>guest@endurance.net wrote:
>>
>> > I was talking to my farrier last night and he told me about a client
>> of his who had just recently purchased a brand new Featherlite
>> 3(?) horse slant trailer. The client was devastated because one
>> of his horses had been killed in the trailer, after it managed to
>> get its foot/shoe caught on the vertical bar supporting the divider.
>>
> Are you sure this was a brand new Featherlite trailer.  I have a 1994 and
it has the
>verticle bars you are talking about, mine are very secure.  I can only
imagine the horse
>must have been having quite a fit to break this weld.  All 1995 and later
trailers that I
>have seen don't have those verticle bars.  The design is much different.
>
>> I'm somewhat unclear on the details (not being familiar with
>> this type of trailer), but as I understand it, the horse had kicked
>> out, its foot had slipped on the plastic (of the divider?), the weld
>> holding the divider poss. broke and the foot slipped behind the
>> bar (which had bent?).
>
> I don't have any plastic in my trailer.  I can't imagine what he might
have slipped on
>unless the rubber mats were wet/slick.
>
> I'm very sorry to hear about the horse's death and hope this hasn't
happened often.
>
>Dee
>