Hacking on "green" bin day...

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I tend to avoid hacking on Mondays if I'm not working as it's our green bin recycling day and beyond the huge green wheelie bins for garden rubbish, there are short black and green recycled food bins, green boxes containing bottles, cans, newspapers, etc. Makes for an interesting hack as obviously they appear hidden in every driveway, round every corner - to say nothing of the noise if you meet the lorries emptying all the various bins..but good training I know...

But as I couldn't ride yesterday I thought I must go out today. Lord knows why I worried about the bins...a huge thank you to the 2 male tandem cyclists who stopped ahead of me on the road, lost apparently (them not me) and proceeded to open out between them an entire OS map just as we approached, and as breezy it flapped merrily in the wind :D They just looked at me blankly as we shot across to the other side of the road giving them a vast arc... :) Then had literally just got pony back on our side of the road and looked up to see a disabled covered wheelchair/vehicle thing trundling along the road towards us on the other side...he utterly hates them as just can't work out what they are. Just was so grateful for a vast triangle of grass at the road junction there to leap and plunge and spin about on but bless him the guy did go as slowly as he could past but that in a way made it worse as took forever to go by. Meanwhile we were turning so much on the verge we were heading back towards the cyclists and their map.... So, bring on the bins - least of my worries! I was laughing by the time it was all over as its never the things you worry in advance about meeting that cause you a problem it's always the unexpected
 
Luckily my boy doesn't spook or worry about (almost) anything when out hacking.

We have a lot of the mobility scooters, husky chariot racing things, Cani-X, wild boar, deer, camels and lama treking, bmx'ers that come flying out of bushes- all of these not even a bat of an eyelid BUT GREEN BINS :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
I took mine out today and he decided that school kids out in the playground were terrifying :rolleyes: but the jcb digger and walking over the motorway was no biggie :p
silly creature
 
We can stride past bins of any colour, lorries, tractors, machinary, children playing (haven't met a mobility scooter mind) but, did you know patches of EARTH are guarranteed to be Meg Killers? (maybe they might open up and swallow her whole?)
Stoooopid 'orse!!
 
I took my youngest out for a hack yesterday....he did so well bless him.

Coped with going over a railway bridge, then under one. Several dog walkers. Geese. Few cars.

Then plopped himself at a bit of old lino on the lane- cut a bit of a swathe accross a crop field :o

Have to say I was well impressed with him.


Oh....green bins I don't find too bad....its when people decorate them with life-size photos/pics of flowers.......thats when it gets 'interesting':D
 
I LOVE bin day/recycling day!

My mare has an absolute hatrid of anything remotely dustbin or recycling bin like (and low stone walls weirdly) so i look forwards to dustbin day as we merrily scoot from one side of the road to the other snorting like a pig! it has me in hysterics every week!!
she means no harm! but at 16 yrs of age and you would have thought that she would have grasped the idea that dustbins arnt killers! heyho!
 
My Nag is completely and utterly un-scareable!!!

I was out hacking with a friend of mine last year when we stopped as my friend saw someone she knew. I was just sat there watching the world go by when my stupid horse grabbed hold of a nearby green bin, picked it up and then dropped it on its side. I had to get off and embarrassingly put the bin back in its place. My friends horse shot off down the rode while mine stood their admiring his work!
 
Green bins, black bins, nothing to be scared of in Bensons world.
But a line of dry paint on the road........weel, he couldnt possibly go near that!!!
 
Andalusianlover - that so sounds like something my vandal would do! :D

Green bins are definitely suspicious, but nowhere near as terrifying as calves. Especially the ones with the white faces. Calves are evil.

The other day, though, there was a tractor towing a silage tanker, a bus (on a very narrow lane), a motorcycle, a bicycle, lots of dogs/walkers and several lawn-mowers. But they were all fine, none of those were horse eating monsters. UNLIKE a gate. Which was definitely 100% going to attack him, so much so, that we ignored the calves on the other side of the road as we went a few strides of full-speed ahead to get past the knobber-eating gate. A gate. A normal, standard, five-bar gate. Which he has passed nearly a hundred times at this stage. :rolleyes:

Idiot!
 
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I had the opposite prob, anything and everything is very very very scary! Especially the horse eating blue tits sat in the bush!
Now she is retired, she is much less spooky, but birds are still monsters!
 
If I want to go out on a hack, I have to go past a green, brown and blue bin that is at the end of the drive so horsey doesn't have an issue!

I went on a hack last Thursday and didn't realise it was bin day, and because we go past them regularly anyway he doesn't care. Even when I had to pull into someone's drive (single track lane) so the bin could be emptied by the MASSIVE bin collection thingy's - loud noises, bin being lifted and empited, he stood like a rock :D was very proud of him. But on the way home his field mate was cantering around the field WOOOAAHHHH now that IS exciting! Que horse shooting into the middle of the blo*dy road!! How we stayed together and didn't get hit I don't know. :eek:
 
I was once out on a long hack when I met two lost ramblers. They asked me where they were and hastily opened and plonked into my arms a whole OS map of the area. NOT a good idea as I was soon lost in orbit!
 
Our youngster was so spooky yesterday he tried to leap on me for a cuddle when the oh moved a barrel for us to jump, he was spooking at the silage, he spooked at our goat, was generally a nightmare, end of session we went for a blast around the 20 acre fields including some x country fences, then we had to herd the escaped, the boy was dripping and puffing like a train, I then let go of him while i sorted sheep etc ( in 20 acre field) the horse was a plod stood there panting, he didn't spook at anything on the way home, amazing what a bit of hard work does for spooking!! lol x
 
We've had to deal with: nasty red tractor-dragons with big horns at the front which carry silage bales (you know the ones) & nasty metal teeth things; f'ing gurt combine-harvestors driven by Eastern Europe contractors who's only experience with horses is on the dinner plate in front of them; military training exercises/WW3 going on all round us; double-trailered artic lorries going like b@ggery; cyclists up yur arse; low-flying aircraft; buses letting off their airbrakes, bits of silage bag bowling down the road behind us; plus cows tanking round the field the same time as ALL of this is happening.

All of which we deal with - until a puff of wind blows a leaf up under our bum; and that's mortally dangerous .......
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
We've had to deal with: nasty red tractor-dragons with big horns at the front which carry silage bales (you know the ones) & nasty metal teeth things; f'ing gurt combine-harvestors driven by Eastern Europe contractors who's only experience with horses is on the dinner plate in front of them; military training exercises/WW3 going on all round us; double-trailered artic lorries going like b@ggery; cyclists up yur arse; low-flying aircraft; buses letting off their airbrakes, bits of silage bag bowling down the road behind us; plus cows tanking round the field the same time as ALL of this is happening.

All of which we deal with - until a puff of wind blows a leaf up under our bum; and that's mortally dangerous .......
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Funny you should say the eastern-european comment!! I was passed through an impassible lane by a forage harvester!! The ones where the belly of the trailor is actually higher than my horses back! Turns out he was a polish contractor..... never been so scared in my life!!
 
benson21 said:
Green bins, black bins, nothing to be scared of in Bensons world.
But a line of dry paint on the road........weel, he couldnt possibly go near that!!!
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Yep....mine has a problem with road markings.....difficult as the exit from my yard is onto a road covered in yellow 'bus stop' writing and lines. We make graceful exits- usually above ground.:rolleyes:
 
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