'Curling' up your leadrope

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I know it looks smart, but am I really the only one who is annoyed by this..
I mean, on a large yard, and everyone does it, yet time is always of the essence, and it's a time waster it doesn't make sense to me?! If I need to grap a horse, the last thing I want to do it faff around uncurling it, or re-curling it. If all the headcollars were leather, and if all the stables had polished brass bits, and IF the Queen visited then I'd ok it, but on an everyday working yard?

Just musing....
 
I do it and I hate them undone & trailing! It only takes a few seconds to undo, which you can do while you are headed to the horse and they don’t get all tangled up with other ropes!
 
ester said:
lol I've never bothered with anything in use, just for storing spares.

Rope goes over the headpiece of the halter in the barn or (on livery) front of stable, so definitely not trailing or getting tangled with others. Never had either issue.
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Yeah, same here. Though I taught my OH to do it a couple of years back and he thought it was much more professional looking so started doing them all like that for a while....I'm glad he seems to have forgotten about it again now
 
I only do it if I need to clip a lead rope onto a saddle for any reason. I can’t be bothered for day to day stuff. I also get a bit obsessed with making sure it’s the perfect length so the end just tucks through the hole, I hate it if the end of the rope is too long.
 
ester said:
lol I've never bothered with anything in use, just for storing spares.

Rope goes over the headpiece of the halter in the barn or (on livery) front of stable, so definitely not trailing or getting tangled with others. Never had either issue.
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yep me too.
YO only uses a rope round the neck to bring in or turn out :rolleyes:
 
I like the look of them done but I'm another who only ever does it with ropes I've put away. There's no space where I hang mine for them to be trailing. I put them through the noseband, but Gill hangs them over the top, as she always unclips the chin of the headcollar (which drives me bonkers!)
 
I used to be obsessed with this as a child - to the extent that, if I ended up with a ‘tail’ that was a little too long, I’d start again. Now, although I do wrap them for storage, I really couldn’t be bothered for daily use. I just do as others have said and loop it over the headpiece.

OH insists on unclipping the lead rope from the head collar when he hangs them up though! Now, this does drive me absolutely mad! I pick a head collar and rope up together, put it on a horse and go to lead it off, expecting the rope to be attached, only to find that I have a rope and no horse!!
 
Our yard all curl up their ropes. Looks nice and tidy when headcollars are hanging outside the boxes. It takes seconds. I usually do it as I’m walking back from the field (or sometimes I do it absentmindedly while watching my horse mooch off and roll!).
 
Used to always do it now I don’t do anything that requires more work. Can’t stand it when people (sharer) Velcro all my brushing boots closed so I then have to unvelcro them again to use them. I just lay them open on top of each other unvelcroed!
 
Only for storage here. You don’t leave them hanging twice with rubber matting run off coming out the front of the stable! Only us here, all busy and it’s a functional not posh yard..!
 
Well I believe that has happened from time to time 🤣 I think kira took him by surprise in the beginning 😉
 
Everyone did this on the first yard I liveried at. Standards were high, loose boxes were whitewashed each summer and beds were made with precision. YO used to bring a tray of tea round during morning yard jobs. The feed room had beautifully made wooden feed bins and was cleaned every day.
It was actually a great start for newbie horse owners. Small things may seem petty, but it instils a discipline and also the knowledge of how to do things properly. I don't wrap up lead ropes in daily use anymore, but I do store spare ones like that.
 
My yard is very rustic and basic, but all leadropes are always curled up. We have 30 horses, and all headcollars hang together, so this keeps them tidied and untangled!
 
When learning to ride I was educated religiously to do this and practised while watching TV. Never questioned it. Now suddenly I am on a yard where they dont do it.
 
It's called "hanking", and yes, I do it.

I can't stand long ropes hanging down, it's messy and potentially dangerous.

Lead ropes trailing down to the ground, into the gutter that runs in front of the stable doors, getting wet and grobby... Just waiting to tangle around somebody's ankles or to be trodden on by a horse. Or both at the same time.

When put into a hank properly, a rope can be undone really, really quickly: as the last part of hanking, put bight through the hank, so that a pull on the free end makes it all come loose.
 
I seem to remember a photo of a large yard where all the leadropes were coiled up hanging by the stables, but by the doors there was a rack of headcollars with the back stays and throatlash removed and leadropes attached and unwound in case of fire.
 
Always as a child but as my headcollars now hang inside my stables I don't. I always put headcollars on over the head as well and just use the throat latch fastening to secure. Can't be doing with unbuckling to put it on and then re buckling to secure only to have to unbuckle again to take it off. I would rather spend the time scrubbing water buckets every day.
 
Sometimes I do - sometimes I don't. I mostly do because I usually bring in in pairs. Bring two into the section which isolates the gate. Headcollar both with the ropes curled up so if one gets free or there is a disaster the rope isn't trailing. Only when both are head collared released the gate catch, undo the ropes - I can do one with each hand - fully open the gate with a foot and through we go. But if I'm only bringing in one I might leave the rope loose.
 
Keith_Beef said:
It's called "hanking", and yes, I do it.

I can't stand long ropes hanging down, it's messy and potentially dangerous.

Lead ropes trailing down to the ground, into the gutter that runs in front of the stable doors, getting wet and grobby... Just waiting to tangle around somebody's ankles or to be trodden on by a horse. Or both at the same time.

When put into a hank properly, a rope can be undone really, really quickly: as the last part of hanking, put bight through the hank, so that a pull on the free end makes it all come loose.
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I really don't understand this issue with leadropes trailing on the ground to become messy or dangerous! I've never had this happen, how on earthy are people hanging their headcollars to manage it? I think we all know how to do it and that they come undone quickly, they don't do themselves up as quickly though when you are using them multiple times a day. I'm pretty quick at doing them but my time is precious.
 
ester said:
I really don't understand this issue with leadropes trailing on the ground to become messy or dangerous! I've never had this happen, how on earthy are people hanging their headcollars to manage it? I think we all know how to do it and that they come undone quickly, they don't do themselves up quickly though when you are using them multiple times a day.
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My personal aversion probably comes from sailing and climbing, where the ropes are much longer and so it's definitely necessary to hank them up properly.

And I've done it so often that it's almost automatic and takes very little time.
 
ester said:
I really don't understand this issue with leadropes trailing on the ground to become messy or dangerous! I've never had this happen, how on earthy are people hanging their headcollars to manage it?
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nor me
mine hang on hooks outside the stables
I like long lead ropes but nothing dangling on the ground here (2 in daily use, one in"storage" ;) )

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