Recent content by Tyanilth

Other way to look at it - 20 baked bean tins in a well packed Army backpack and you could probably walk a mile with limited problems. Same 20 tins in a dustbin bag slung lopsided over one shoulder and you’d be lucky to get 50 yards without pulling a muscle. But either way, ten baked bean cans...

I’ve said this before till I’m blue in the face (vet, riding instructor, occasional dressage rider and someone who was never built to look like Twiggy) - the main problem is nobody has any common sense any more. If you are tall, broad shouldered and over 14 stone, get a nice big framed Irish...

Thanks. I’ll start peering at manufacturers spec sheets :)

Hi there - looking for recommendations as finally retiring my old Bahill sportsman and looking for a modern trailer. Tow car is a Saab 95 2010, tow capacity 1800 kg B & E license. Horse is a 17hh ISH, approx weight 700 kg Only towing 1 horse. Budget of about 4 k to buy trailer. What trailer...

The old wisdom used to be this. Any horse with a good enough rider can go as far as Medium. This becomes the point at which poor conformation will limit any further progress. Any rider can go up the levels given a good enough horse, but most amateurs will stick at Elementary. That is the...

I look at my 15 year old TB and I think Because he's game enough to take for a good gallop, sane enough to stop when asked, mannerly enough to carry a novice rider round the school and produce a polite walk trot and canter with her somewhat wobbly aids. Because he's hilariously pathetically in...

Not sure if this has been posted before but there's a good article here about the 20% rule - http://www.horsechannel.com/horse-news/2014/10/01-too-heavy-to-ride.aspx

They're huge. Probably came off one of those giant tractors that look like something out of Star Wars. I never measured them but one big bale just fits nicely in the hole :)

Best solution I found is big tractor tyres, I have one in each field and the farmer just drops an unwrapped round bale of haylage into each ring. Some mess, but much less than feeding it loose, my mare and gelding eat about one bale between them in a week in the winter and the two year old in...

Saab 9-5 diesel estate, old Bayhill aluminium trailer (2 horse but I only tow 1 in it), B+E licence Copes well, and well within car's towing capacity, but wouldn't want to have to get it off a muddy field :)

Thank you again. I've only just bought the trailer so will ask them to check the plate. Bahill designed these to carry two 16.2s and I believe the MAM was about 1900kg but that is hearsay from someone else who used to have one. The firm's been out of business for a long time so hard to get...

Hi and thank you so much for this thread. Prospective setup is as follows. 1. I have the B and E licence, test taken before 1997 2. Prospective towing vehicle Saab 95 Vector Tid. This is my regular car, and I want to be able to tow one of my horses with it, on short trips only. We are...