decided to jump something different

kiteman0 said:
Right it's time to comment.

I brought this horse to hunt this season and before buying it I watched it jump a number of obstickles, he cleared a 5 bar gate a water trough and a hedge.

I have full confidence that he would jump, I'm a novice when it comes to jumping, never had a school to jump in so always just jumped fallen trees/logs.
Yes it was good fun, but I will take all the comments on board because I wouldn't want to hurt myself or horse.

I must add, I've seen some really bad accidents in show jumping with collapsable fences but that's acceptable. Confused.com
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Lovely horse, I hope you have huge fun with him out hunting and in everything else you do.

You were brave to post though - many's the time I've wanted to post something and thought no, not on HHO, the fallout wouldn't be worth it :rolleyes:

I do agree that fences should be fixed, but like you say, your troughs are.

I sometimes wonder what the HHOers would say if they saw the Irish hunter trial courses we jump round :D
 
Wow! What a jump, and what a horse!
Have a fantastic time hunting him, looks like you'll be up front jumping every hedge/ditch/wall/trough ( ;) ) you point him at :D
 
Great picture! What a good brave horse! You'll have so much fun out hunting on him!

I'll probably when shot for saying this but when did people get so obsessed with Health and Safety?! We used to race through Cirencester Park jumping everything we came across, walls, fences, logs, ditches -anything we could find!

OP have fun, kick on and enjoy - life is too damn short.
 
Great picture.... :)

As kids we used to take turns in lieing on the floor and letting people jump their ponies over us when we ran out of things to improvise with. Wouldn't do it now, no horse could clear my belly!! ;)
 
blimey, H&S patrol alert :rolleyes:

Am sure people who hunt jump much worse things than a water trough (barbed wire fences spring to mind).

OP, enjoy your horse.
 
I doubt I'd have the confidence I have today if I handn't spent my childhood hurtling around fields on horses (often with nothing but a leadrope!) jumping anything in the way. Used to ride the most incredible Irish mare who would leap over anything put in front of her, she to this day, was still one of the greatest horses I've ever known. She'd think nothing of leaping over hay bales and 5 bar gates.

Even my first horse was great. We didn't have "proper" jumps and would make courses out of anything we could find, including baths, dustbins, bales and gates. All done at speed and never a single fall!

No it doesn't make it "safe" but even holding onto the other end of the lead rope is a risk. I do think my poor mum would have had a heart attack if she'd have known what we got up to!!!

Enjoy your horse he looks like he has a fabulous jump on him.
 
neep(Bloody hell. She is jumping a trough not jumping in to a pond full of crocs !!!!!! )

That's funny especially the SHE bit. I'm a 36 yr old male. Haha

The recent posts bring back to mind when I was a kid with our wild welsh ponys.
They didn't get ridden with a saddle very often and we would race each other round the fields and jump anything we could find.
It was fun.
It seems that the Fun bit has gone out of riding.
 
I'd jump that (now that you say it's fixed) :) Looks like great fun.

No reason to think a horse would misread that particular question. The light is good, and there is nothing deceptive about the fence. Horses usually only bank things when they're big and they literally can not make the spread or the they misunderstand the fence due to funny light or funny ground lines etc. This looks eminently jumpable to me!
 
Jesstinsel said:
I'd jump that (now that you say it's fixed) :) Looks like great fun.

No reason to think a horse would misread that particular question. The light is good, and there is nothing deceptive about the fence. Horses usually only bank things when they're big and they literally can not make the spread or the they misunderstand the fence due to funny light or funny ground lines etc. This looks eminently jumpable to me!
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I agree!

If you have 40 of them to jump (I think you said 40) you could go for a right jolly!!
 
kiteman0 said:
neep(Bloody hell. She is jumping a trough not jumping in to a pond full of crocs !!!!!! )

That's funny especially the SHE bit. I'm a 36 yr old male. Haha

The recent posts bring back to mind when I was a kid with our wild welsh ponys.
They didn't get ridden with a saddle very often and we would race each other round the fields and jump anything we could find.
It was fun.
It seems that the Fun bit has gone out of riding.
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LOL at first bit. ;)

Sorry but I don't think thats fun. :mad: Well not now I've lost my bottle anyway :o I think i'm brave going over a 2ft cross pole :o
I used to be brave though. While out hunting on Lucy years ago the field were jumping a bit of fencing. It wasn't that high but I desided to jump the gate instead. The gate was about twice as high as the fence and I got told i was being dangorous and I should have jumped the lower fence. The reason I didn't jump the fence was bacause it was barbwire :eek: Lucy was more than capable of jumping wire, she field hopped all the time :rolleyes: But I thought the gate was the safer option. Noone else seemed to agree though ;)
And also have these paople who are moaning about you jumping this trough seen some of the jumps eventers jump. What if a horse tried to bank an arrowhead Or one of the massive spread fences wouldn't that be just as bad :confused: Anyway I'll get off my soapbox now.
Well done OP you have a lovely horse there I hope you have lots of happy hunting days on him :)
 
I don't think you get it. If a horse puts down on a fence with a solid top he can bank it and save itself.
in the case of this trough, the horse couldn't bank it so would land with its feet in the trough and prob do some serious harm.
 
charlie76 said:
I don't think you get it. If a horse puts down on a fence with a solid top he can bank it and save itself.
in the case of this trough, the horse couldn't bank it so would land with its feet in the trough and prob do some serious harm.
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Who do you think doesn't get it? :confused:

I understand entirely the implications of the horse banking that. But I think it's an unlikely scenario ( already explained why) and so I would do it.

Horses banking any fence that isn't designed for it is a problem. How many fences on your average local cross country course do you think would actually hold the weight of a horse? Not many I'll wager! Straw bales would be catastrophic if the horse puts down on them but that doesn't stop me jumping them either!
 
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If thats aimed at me charlie76 I do get it. I don't think I explained myself well.
I didn't mean arrowhead I ment corner, A jump like < With a ruddy great gap and a spread like = with another ruddy great gap in the middle. Same issue as far as I can see if they bank it. Also seen eventers jump pickup trucks and things like that. What if they banked that :eek:
 
I'd give it a whirl.

Sadly, my horse probably hasn't the heart!

Just a point to make that for those who are busybodying saying it's dangerous and in a nutshell calling folks kn0b5 for doing something they wouldn't because as individuals they don't think it's safe - mind ya business.

It's a persons own judgement. Going on a ride out down a track i went down everyday turned out to be more dangerous for me in July than boldly having the confidence to jump a trough - I had a stroke whilst out on my own a week after my 29th birthday. He jumped a jump and all was fine. I hacked out for ten minutes and it didn't result in everything being fine (PS, i'm fine now by the way!). Swings and roundabouts.

If people want to live, they want to live. Leave them be to enjoy themselves and make a judgement call.
 
No more danger than a horse putting a leg down early over a XC oxer, to me. Accidents can happen at any point, some worst injuries when not even being ridden. To me, if it has a good approach and landing [which it does, along with a 'clear' obstacle for the horse to judge to jump], then a jump is a jump. Yes, horses do silly things, but it would be a slim chance of a proven hunt/jumping horse to decide to jump into a water trough, as size-wise, in comparison to the jump needed to just clear it normally, it's not big enough inside for them to be given the only 'option' to jump in and out of it. First two options if they weren't sure of it, would be a run or stop with all the space around it. It's not that big, and I'm much happier as a rider, jumping wider than I am jumping upright.
 
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Beautiful horse and picture :)
wish my horse would jump like that as would love to give it a go.
Imo health and safetu has gone mad since I was a child and Im only 18 now!
When I was 9 months old my dad plopped me on the back of a 17.2 horse who we had been looking at over a wall. Owner asked if Iwanted to ride, dad stuck me on and I held onto mane while cantering up the field being led by a mad woman!
Even when I was 12 and 13 we had a little welshie to lool after for 2 weeks in the summer. If I quite rightly remember me and my younger brother built a jump from a fallen fence post propped up between two old bikes!!!! Then preceded to jump it! It was good fun. Needless to say niether of us had hats or body protectors on. Didnt even have tack!
Rode the same pony up the field once, he got excited, threw in a few bucks, I fell off and pony jumped over my head. Still remember his hooves flying over my head now.
It was fun and a laugh.
Also on the subject of health and safety. I galloped my tb across the fields earlier in just a headcollar. She had a rug on and I was wearing jeans
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If you and your horse enjoy jumping the troughs then do it. Looks aot safer than the jumps we used to build in any case! ;)
 
Let us credit the OP with some sense. I am OP would not have attempted if it wasn't thought doable. And who hasn't, at some time, thrown caution to the wind?

OP, enjoy your lovely horse and I hope you have great fun. You are very brave jumping that if you have only jumped logs ... did you close your eyes? I would have.

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Lovely photo OP and good on you for doing it!

I think that it would be very, very strange for a horse to think about attempting to bank that. TBH if I thought my horse would bank that, I would probably be giving up the jumping lark entirely. Most horses have plenty more sense than what we give them credit for.

I do think that eventing courses have become so 'safe' in recent years - just look at the changes to the gate going into huntsmans close at Badminton. The 4* eventers couldn't be deemed safe enough to jump a five bar gate without hitting the deck so they had to pull out the groundlines and turn it into an 'ascending' gate. Of course plenty of people in the hunting field have enough skill to jump wooden five bar gates, and negotiate them perfectly safely.
 
Leg_end said:
Where's that like button?!
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Sorry, Leg_end, but I wasn't agreeing with you - I was actually saying that the "question" (un-bankable trough) was fine, now the OP has confirmed they are fixed. Unfixed fences are an unnecessary, unpredictable risk. Jumping interesting and potentially challenging fences is fun :D
 
Lovely horse, have fun hunting :D

I remember going cross country as a child and course would have fences such as troughs... Great fun! My pony put a leg down too soon over an oxer showjumping at 2ft 9 and had a rotational... :rolleyes: anything can happen, you can't wrap up in cotton wool all the time!!
 
No didnt close my eyes :(

i never thought i would be so popular.:eek: 6 pages because i jumped a water trough.

im going to jump the bench in the picnic area in the woods next week :cool:

no seriously i keep looking at it;):D

i manage a large dairy farm and ive got loads of photos most of things that went wrong,:rolleyes: im scared to post them incase they get forwarded to the HSE:D:D

MY HORSE JUMPED BETTER THAN MY QUAD

this trying to push round bales over with a quad.:eek:
this one didnt move so the quad gave it a cuddle:o:o

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