bit odd - Using horse to pull trailer full of hay? Is it ok?

Dry Rot said:
Get yourself a hay knife, cut the bale at 12 o'clock to centre of bale, lift off leaves and transport with your wheel barrow. Simple!

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Wow that would not work with my OCD! I unwrap half the bale and peel from the outside in, then the inside out.
 
I often ponder the irony of having a young, healthy strapping mare doing insufficient work whilst I struggle around the place with heavy barrows/ bulging haynets and water carriers. I think its a jolly good idea to work out a safe and appropriate way for the horse to shoulder some of the burden. All that waiting around might teach it some manners as well.
 
I have in the past - filled a few huge haynets and attached to a roller so the horse takes the weight, take enough nets to last a few days! horse didn't mind at all!!

I would not do as you are planning.....
 
EQUIDAE said:
Wow that would not work with my OCD! I unwrap half the bale and peel from the outside in, then the inside out.
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I don't have the time to do that. My hay doesn't come wrapped either.

And what on earth has OCD to do with feeding hay? (Google: "Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition where a person has obsessive thoughts and compulsive activity".
 
maisie06 said:
I have in the past - filled a few huge haynets and attached to a roller so the horse takes the weight, take enough nets to last a few days! horse didn't mind at all!!

I would not do as you are planning.....
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Yeah, my horse is quite content to be packhorse. She's also broken to drive but I'd never attach a car trailer to her.
 
maisie06 said:
I have in the past - filled a few huge haynets and attached to a roller so the horse takes the weight, take enough nets to last a few days! horse didn't mind at all!!

I would not do as you are planning.....
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I have also done this, the mare carried her own and her field friends hay over the field.

Years ago we harnessed a 12h pony who had driven decades before, to a large tarpaulin, threw 3 kids on the sheet and let them loose in a snowy field. Not sure who had the most fun, the pony, the kids or us watching.
 
I think the OP has been given a lot of good advice on here, and warnings about the inadvisability of doing what she suggested in her original post.

Hopefully she will take heed of that advice and NOT do what was suggested, i.e. hitch up a horse that has never driven before, to a trailer which is designed for a vehicle to tow it and not a horse, with a load that is exceedingly unstable.

The consequences of doing that could be truly horrendous, even with a horse that could be considered placid and/or a plod.

OP hasn't come back on here to respond: hopefully she WON'T do what she suggests in her original post.

IF this thread is a serious one, which I for one had doubts about, I would have to agree therefore with the previous poster that for anyone who's ever been around horses to even consider this; they have GOT to be "mindlessly stupid" to even be considering it............if you come on here asking for opinions about something as patently dangerous as this could be, then sometimes it is a case of taking strong medicine.
 
We regularly use our horses to harrow the arena and I am presently training a mule to drive with the purpose of helping out around the farm, but it is TRAINING that makes this possible. I'd never, ever hitch anything to a car trailer.
 
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