Re: Hopping fences

["Visions of the Wind" <wind@visionsofthewind.com>]

What you are describing used to be very common! :-) They are called
'stiles'....

Steph McCray

-----Original Message-----
From: Sarah Roxanne Zawacki <zawackis@pilot.msu.edu>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 8:44 PM
Subject: RC: Hopping fences


>
>    Thanks for all the response on hobbling.  I think I'll try to train
>Elliot *slowly* whenever I get a chance to buy some hobbles.
>    I have another question.  We put up the no-climb horse safe fencing,
>which has been pretty nice overall.  Our "starving" old mare managed to
>lean over part of the fencing, to reach some grass on a hill on the other
>side.  I think I see some hotwire in her future...  However, one has to
>walk around to gates everywhere, which drives me nuts.  We used to have
>a two rail board fence, and if you wanted to go somewhere, you could go
>in a basically straight line, ducking through fences as needed.  But
>it's impossible to climb over wire mesh without doing damage, so I was
>wondering how people dealt with this.  I'm thinking about taking some
>two-by-fours, sawing them into smallish pieces, and nailing them to
>high-traffic posts on both sides, tree fort style, to make ladders that
>go up one side and down the other.  I'm not sure that this would be
>horse safe.  I can't think of how a horse could hurt himself on two-by-
>fours firmly nailed to a post (assuming the two-by-fours weren't
>particularly long), but they never consult me before wounding themselves,
>either.  Does anyone have ideas?
>
>                            Thanks,
>                            Sarah & Elliot & Holly (I'm hungry!)
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