A nice quiet Sunday hack...NOT!

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I set out this morning on my rather spooky (big Nelly to be honest) 14.3, who's a bit full of it because he's in at night and until recently has had 24/7 turnout. He'd also been clipped, just before we set out. We pootled along, and met a cob coming the other way, on the single track lane. The rider of the cob stopped and we passed the time of day for a few minutes, before carrying on our separate ways.

About 3 minutes later, still on the single track, my lad suddenly stopped dead, head shot up, and then he spun - to show me what he'd seen/heard. The cob, now riderless, galloping up the lane towards us, hotly pursued by a white van (which turned out to have the cob's rider in the passenger seat).

Well. my boy Tuga stood rooted to the spot, goggling at this horse tearing towards him, saddle flapping. Then as the cob passed, he spun and spooked HUGELY, before trying his level best to follow - "If he's off, I'm flippin' off as well:eek::eek::eek:" Anyway, I managed to pull up, and let the van squeeze by us as Tuga danced around. They caught the cob about 100 yards ahead of us as he'd stopped at his yard - we then negotiated the van, the cob, the electric gates of the yard closing...Tuga was by now about 16.2, and hovering above the ground.

We carried on, and he became a little more relaxed, until a couple of minutes later, he stopped again. "What is it this time, Tuga? Ah, a tractor idling just behind this hedge, in the spooky little yard that has the chickens, goats and sheep in assorted ramshackle housing." And then, with no warning at all, a shed - yes, a SHED:eek: suddenly rose up from behind the hedge right next to us. The tractor had lifted it up. Needless to say, Tuga wasn't hanging about to see why a shed would suddenly levitate a few feet from him. Nope, he was off back the way he'd come, spinning and heading for the hills.

Well, I stayed on, and I stopped him, and I yelled at the youth driving the tractor to "WILL YOU JUST WAIT A MINUTE!!!!!" and we somehow got back and past the damn thing, all of 17 hands now. And off we went and soon I stopped shaking and we managed the rest of our hack with no more that a few startles and a quick dive into a field to avoid a tractor towing a huge load of wrapped bales and another hot on its heels with a wrapped bale up in the air on its front lift.

Until very recently we were at a yard on the Downs, with no road work. I DOOOOOO miss it:(
 
brilliant report !!! well done for staying on !!

Much more exciting than a boring uneventful hack - all character building hehe ...
 
Excellent !!! :D

Shy had a funny turn out on his hack yesterday, for no obvious reason other than we had turned right along a path....it was all too much for him, and tbh, I thought he was going to be off as I could hardly hold him. Cue that "floating jog" and snorting dragon. And yes, 14.2 became 15,2. ;)
 
Beautifully written and wow, what a hack!! Thanks for making me giggle, I think we have all had hacks like that and its so good to be able to laugh about it ... and isn't it amazing how a 14hh can become a 18hh with such little notice!
 
You are braver than me!! I think I would of jumped off, thrown the reins at the horse and said just go! :rolleyes: lol no I wouldn't really but well done! You sounded like you handled all the drama well :)
 
Well at least you can't say hacking is boring! Love it..v funny...but you weren't deterred..well done both of you.
Does sound hairy..regrettably I've had a few rides like that..one of the worst being meeting 2 mini shetlands being allowed to run free like dogs but with cowbells round their necks..least if they had been dogs they wouldn't have been quite so keen to meet my horse..
 
Sorry but the levitating shed had me in stitches! Poor horse must have thought the world was going crazy by this point :D well done for dealing with the drama's! I had one of those hacks last week, where an innocent wheelbarrow became a dinosaur (though all large farm machinery was fine :rolleyes: ) and a feasant produced the 18hh fire breathing, prancing dragon :p
 
Well sat on the eventful hack and what a brilliant account afterwards. I can just picture your ned with his eyes out on stalks wondering where you have taken him to, and why. So he just has to grow bigger and bigger and bigger. You both coped so well, not many people have had all that on one hack, or a levitating shed at all. Ever.
 
We also had the (literal) opposite of a quiet hack this morning. Before we set out I'd been hearing the bassline of music while mucking out, even over my iPod, and assumed it was either a car parked nearby on verge or YOs son having left car radio on loudly. Set off on our hack and it just got louder and louder, horse kept on stopping to look off in the direction it was coming from in a 'that's not normally there and I can't figure it out way'. Turns out there was an illegal rave :eek: :eek: that had been going on all night ( and still going on at 9 in the morning!) at a barn about a mile and a half away from the yard!!! Music must have been deafening actually in the barn as it was pretty loud from the road half a mile away!!

Got back to yard to find YO had called police (they passed us on the road home) and a local farmer had blocked the bridle path they'd driven down to get to the barn :D Feel like I've been really sheltered, I thought raves had gone out in the 90s!
 
Sounds worthy of FP on facebook!! soooo funny well done you for staying on, I took my lad out today first t ime in 5 weeks post him decking me and breaking ribs...... it didint go well we got about 300 yds before he tried decking me again and again as his girlfriend wasnt with him. I wimped out and got off and did some in hand leading him even though he did try rearing and bucking (in hand) ....... scary thank heavens I wore my Body protector this time!
 
Yes, Jill Crew, it could have been worse I suppose! I just drove past the yard of the shed - and the remains of the shed are smoldering on a bonfire. The shed is dead - hip hip hooray:D
 
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