Recent content by JackAT

Congrats! I've never jumped anything getting on for close to a hedge, so can only attempt to imagine the buzz you must have felt! I'm sure it can be quite addictive. Start as you mean to go on! :D

If I was to compare it to human orthopaedic trauma surgery, the aim of the plating, screwing and pinning isn't to replace the bone as a weight bearing structure, but to hold the fracture fragments in place sufficiently for the bone to heal, become strong and able to bear weight by itself again...

Totally agree, it's annoying when you see other riders out on the road with bad manners. I do remember at least one other thread a couple of months back, but that's just a reflection of the fact that it's something I see frequently, and the way some drivers behave towards horses, that fact...

Was down at a plant hire place earlier today...asked to rent a bulldozer. "Times are tight you know" came the reply from the burly chap behind the counter. He then proceeded to show me his latest model, informing me that it was "cheap to buy, easy to maintain, and can still go through 3 feet...

Looks awesome! I'd prefer to do it with two stirrups though, I'm obviously not as good at that yet :D :D :D

Quick update: the hogged piebald fence destroyer was seen today with ears pinned back, tumbling towards his fieldmates. No doubt they ate his blade of grass, and he was trying his best to exact revenge. The lighter bred companions flounced away effortlessly.

I'm currently on a placement where I have to get to a district general hospital by bus every morning, and the bus drives through an equestrian area every morning. In one of the fields is a section A, a TB, some sort of warmblood looking thing, and a big fat hogged piebald cob. I'm...

Get ready... THREE! Three whole years. 5 if you count the two my sister used to work on a livery yard when I was about 10/11 and I used to go up and visit/help with stuff. I think I should get a prize for being the least experienced :)

I do this too! My problem is what has been described, gripping with the thigh and not sitting deep enough. I did a no-stirrup lesson with an instructor a few weeks ago, and stirrups came back at the end and I was surprised to be saying they needed to go about two holes longer for me to feel...

I highlighted the reliability of the rumour in my first post due to speculative information sources, and said I believed it was a myth. If it was a recurrent event, with apparently no cause, I might be a bit more careful. Maybe not for the fear of theft, but for the safety of any...

I don't mean to create panic or worry, but I've heard a rumour that thieves are marking horses by leaving a single plait in the mane and returning after a while to pick up the marked ones. However, I heard this on Facebook, before Appleby. I wouldn't worry too much because the reliability of...

Could it be the wet weather providing a "better" environment for bugs to proliferate? I seem to remember someone before saying that the wet weather didn't necessarily mean that the hoof would be weakened, but would make infection more likely, and that could be the cause of cracking, especially...

Rumour has it the sheer weight of cob around Cumbria last week has resulted in the local government having to spend millions repairing potholes, bridges and pavements, likening the destruction to the floods of 2009! :D

Might be a bit of a twister moment, but if you could manage to take a picture with your hand/finger as a reference, then as long as you don't go chopping bits off it or getting frostbite and them falling off (hand/finger not the sarcoid! :D ), then that could be a reference? :) As long as you...

+1 man. :o :D:D