PeterNatt
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Just watching the programme about 'Outback Alaska' and they were chain sawing the branches off a tree by standing on their horse operating the chainsaw!
Chainsawing - Standing on a horse!
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Orangehorse
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They do things differently in America!
TPO
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Meanwhile there are people in the UK kicking off because there is writing on the inside of dressage boards at competitions and it's "spooky"!
Reacher
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What could possibly go wrong?
D66
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Were they wearing hats?
PeterNatt
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No hard hats - This was Alaska and the horse did not even blink an eyelid!
JFTDWS
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Absolutely. I mean, I'm not leaping onto the back of mine with a chainsaw - more because I'm a mal-coordinated idiot who drops everything than because of the horse - but in the US, where [some] horses still "work", they do have higher expectations!
silv
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My farrier often goes on what I can describe as extreme trekking at the weekends. He heads out into the wilds with his wife and also a packhorse with all their gear. He often posts videos on FB of him clearing tracks with a chainsaw as he goes, his horses couldn’t care less.
Blazingsaddles
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Jeez, mine would only have to see a chainsaw, not even turned on and would have a mini melt😀
Beausmate
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Disgraceful! Horses are too damn accident prone to be allowed to operate chainsaws...
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
Survival of the fittest. The ones that chainsawed bits off themselves have been barbequed.
Peter7917
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If you could break them to working with a chainsaw then they would get over their phobia of clippers pretty quick!
ElectricChampagne
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that sounds super interesting, does he have a blog! ha
Keith_Beef
Novice equestrian, accomplished equichetrian
Really? Any links to share?
Leo Walker
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It was all over facebook at the weekend.
I dont think mine would be worried by a chain saw. Driving ponies tend to be pretty chilled out about noise as so much time is spent with loud noisey things effectively chasing them, in the form of carriages!
GreyMane
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Zoinks.
And I thought my father in law was chancing it going up a ladder in his old wooden clogs (with his balance issues) to chainsaw some bits off a tree!
I hope the horses have ear defenders and big plastic visors.. and high vis... maybe those tin helmets...
or something like this!
And I thought my father in law was chancing it going up a ladder in his old wooden clogs (with his balance issues) to chainsaw some bits off a tree!
I hope the horses have ear defenders and big plastic visors.. and high vis... maybe those tin helmets...
or something like this!
ester
Not slacking multitasking
It was on the twittereventing facebook page, it doesn't want me to link the photo but it's quite near the top if you're a member.
ester
Not slacking multitasking
scruffyponies
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Mine are used to chainsaws, and would happily enough stand to let you do it, but it's hard to see what mitigations you could put in place to take the risk assessment from 'insane' to 'only a bit dodgy'. 
joosie
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Doesn't everyone do that?
As an aside I did once stand on a horse to reach a football that had got stuck on a shed roof.
As an aside I did once stand on a horse to reach a football that had got stuck on a shed roof.
vhf
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I have used a horse to clean out guttering... loads easier than a ladder!