Anyone remember...back in the day?

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I'm sat here (working from home
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) looking through some old photo's of when i was quite young, and there are some from quite a large show we went to (i think its a BSPS show from what is scrawled on the back anyway)...i'm posing on my little pony in the lorry park and all the trailers are hitched up to random cars of all shapes and sizes! And thinking back (this is probably like 1990/1991) my mum used to tow in her old cortina (sp!). So what changed, now everyone only uses 4x4's and looking at these photo's none of the trailers look particulary light weight!! Does anyone else remember this? I'm guessing everyone, insurance companies included have wised up.
 
Bet they were all mainly in snaffles and plain noseband too!! Don't forget, now ever one has to allow an extra 500kg pay load for all the extra bling and gadgets!!!!
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Hmm...yes probably!! And bog standard GP saddles....plain numnahs, not all that sheepskin/prolite/riser this that and the other...not that they are necessarily (cannot spell that word!!) a bad thing
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The only 4x4 available in those days was the LandRover and only farmers had them. My Dad used to tow with an old Rover 2200TC and then a big old Granada Estate and then in later years my Mum bought a Daihatsu 4-Trak which was great because I could get out of a muddy field without needing a tractor to drag me out.
 
I remember in the 70's my neighbours bought a trailer to tow with their 1.3 Morris Marina. They only used to take one pony in it but it was so gutless that they asked my mother if she wanted to use it to take their pony and ours out to places. My mum had a 1.3 VW Golf! It was better than the Marina though.

In those days if we ever got near a "lorry" everything was crammed in - including at least 5 kids and the driver in the cab - no cut throughs!
 
I remember being baout 13 and my friend took me to Birchinley Manor in her trailer pulled by a little ford escort 1.6. We struggled up the hill on M62 and I thought we'd end up rolling back down it!!! Got there in the end though!! There was another time we went to pick up a friends lamanitic pony from Debyshire with thier Ford Granada and managed to go 3/4 of the way there up hill and down dale with the hand brake on the trailer and burnt the clutch out
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opps!!
 
We was posh!!! We had a range rover and 3 pony trailer painted to match. Was less posh over the years - Once I started to have to pay for it all myself, I got an orange rover and a green rice trailer. Boyfriend on one occasion towed trailer with his capri (height of boy racer fashion in those days). Was only about 5 miles away to show though and no hills! Did also hack to some shows, remember winning a big trophy and having to give it to someone else so we could collect it later as I couldn't ride home with it.
 
cattle trucks...10 ponies tied nose to tail herringbone, no partitions, boots/rugs etc and all us kids crammed into the luton.

great times
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...but hopefully a bit safer!
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My dad used to tow our big heavy trailer with his Citroen BX, but the back dorrs wouldn't open with the trailer hitched up!
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More than once we had to get the pony out half way up a hill and lead it up so the car could move, must've knackered the clutch & engine!
 
God, I remember that! It was a "round robin" in a five mile radius to collect all those who had chipped in for a cattle truck, and the kids were behind the luton gates, with all the tack! Definitely no partitions,no haynets and NO HSE!!!
I can remember, generally,those who had trailers were the ones that today would have smart lorries, everyone else hacked or chipped in. It was normal to hack several miles to a competition,then hack home.If I was really lucky,Dad followed in the car,with sandwiches and a haynet - if not,I carried those,too! However, if I was lucky enough to get any, I ALWAYS hacked home with rossies on the bridle,not in my pocket - such a show off!
 
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cattle trucks...10 ponies tied nose to tail herringbone, no partitions, boots/rugs etc and all us kids crammed into the luton.

great times
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Oh yes. Been there, done that. Never had a problem, happy days.

My Father used to haul me to shows in a Lamborne trailer with a Granada, dump me, the horse, and the trailer and go off to play Golf at the nearest course!
 
Ditto JM07, all my frinds and I used to hire an old man and his cattle lorry for the day. He picked us all up 8 ponies and girls all crammed in no partitions just loads of straw on the floor, girls crammed in the cab and some of us sat up on the luton, great fun!!!! Then my dad had a tow bar put on our Cavalier and we hired an old rice trailer for the huge sum of £5 per day!!!!!!! I was thrilled with it. Now I would die at the thought of it all. Ah such fun and not a care in the world.
 
i still travel 2 in a large partition now if i cant be bothered to move the partitions back from travelling colts.

it's not a thing that bothers me TBH...

And i've never owned bandages/boots to this day
 
*horrified* lol, it all sounds like fun... but being in my early twenties, never had ponies as a kid and now set up with my Shogun & carefully calculated trailer, making sure all the weights are correct and formal procedures followed etc etc

Oh, how much easier it would of been to chuck them all in the back of a cattle lorry!
 
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I'm spotting potential members for my clique here.
Do feel free to start the cattle lorry chapter, dears.
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Oh can I join??

Should start a clique for would be illeagal car/trailer combinations and cattle lorries! Although I am sure someone can put it more eloquently than I!
 
I remember going to a show with 3x ponies in an old rice (2xhorse) trailer!! One each side of the partition and one stood across the front!!!!
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lorries weren't generally overweight back then as they were only used to carry what they were built for... carrying livestock...not 3 tonnes of living and other useless crud........
 
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cattle trucks...10 ponies tied nose to tail herringbone, no partitions, boots/rugs etc and all us kids crammed into the luton.

great times
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Tee hee I remember those days well! Although it might explain my my kids 15 year old section A is terrified of travelling
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This goes along with those days of five kids sitting in the boot of my dad's old banger of range rover with another five on the back seat. Life is no fun anymore!
 
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I'm spotting potential members for my clique here.
Do feel free to start the cattle lorry chapter, dears.
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Oh can I join??

Should start a clique for would be illeagal car/trailer combinations and cattle lorries! Although I am sure someone can put it more eloquently than I!

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Do please go ahead - can I suggest,

'Member of the Dandy Brush, Bran Mash and Hacking to Rallies Clique (Dodgy Car/Trailer Combo and Cattle Lorry sub-Clique - Chair)'

Snappy, eh?
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Ah Daihatsu fourtrack my 16 yr old one has just gone to car heaven sob sob.

I could never understand why my dad wouldn't tow me with his Ford Capri (end of 70's early 80's)

If I was luck once a year the yard shared the hire of a lorry to go to the local county show, or a few times was luck enough to get a lift in a friends trailer, but horse would never load to come home, used to hack back via the A38!! Can you imagine that now?? And I was only a teenager at the time.
 
I think i've done all levels of transportation over the years from hacking my 11.2hh welshie down the main roads to shows, then got 'posher' and went halves with some friends on a lightweight Bahill 2 pony trailer that my mum used to tow with the family Renault 20, then got 'posher' still when we moved onto a horses and got a bigger trailer with front and rear ramps...then when the horses got to 16.2hh+ (and my dad put his foot down about the car) we purchased an old Ford D Series, converted fruit lorry and used that...until it got too expensive to keep on the road, when we really 'made it' and got a brand new Ifor Williams 3.5t 2 horse front and rear ramp van on an old transit chassis
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We used to transport the 16.3hh ISH and a 16.1hh German WB around everywhere in it
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Nobody knew about weights back then lol!
 
some of that made me laugh.
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you lot were soooo posh having any sort of trailer. we hacked to pony club or shows on our scruffy little borrowed ponies. i wore my school blazer and at one show my second hand jods zip burst! oohhh the shame
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