Re: Trailer Tie Stories

[C Eyler <eyler@mindspring.com>]

Linda,

Where these ties the coiled type?  Someone mentioned earlier not to use
that type, but rather the smooth white kind with the black specks.  That's
what I've got, though I haven't even used them yet.

Cindy Eyler

>My horror story involves those huge black bungie cord cross ties. I used
>them in my slat load for a little while.
>
>I had a 2 horse slant, and I don't tie until they are both in and the
>doors closed, and I methodically drop the feed doors and unhook both
>horses before opening the trailer... 
>
>One time my son unhooked the back horse, but not the front horse, my
>1200 pound appy mare.
>
>I unloaded the back horse, swung the divider open, asked Cam to back
>out. She backed, hit the bungie, pulled, was SNAPPED back into the
>trailer <sproing!!> and then **REALLY ** backed out with a vengeance,
>breaking the bull snap on the bungie at the halter... the bungie, pulled
>to twice it's length retracted with enough velocity to put a serious
>dent in the trailer...
>
>As it passed me, that bull snap grazed my temple, leaving a 1 inch
>scratch trickling blood ...
>
>Some days we get damned lucky.
>
>I'll never use bungie ties again...  ;*)
>
>
>Linda - Gilroy
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