Mlini
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Just a headcollar for mine.
Show us your travel gear!!
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Ranyhyn
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Most people would say that cumbersome and safe in the same sentence is a contradiction in terms.
And you can disagree all you like, when you've paid for my horse then you get to have an opinion, otherwise it's down to the owner how they know their horse travels best
Jesstickle
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If safety is more important, why not maintain the trailer better to allow you to go without boots?
Ranyhyn
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If safety is more important, why not maintain the trailer better to allow you to go without boots?
Agreed, checking the floor would have saved the horse a lot better than travel boots...
ILuvCowparsely
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Most people would say that cumbersome and safe in the same sentence is a contradiction in terms.
And you can disagree all you like, when you've paid for my horse then you get to have an opinion, otherwise it's down to the owner how they know their horse travels best
Excuse me I was not referring to your horse where did I say that?
I was speaking generally . You do what you like . Traveling horses without protection is like traveling kids without seat-belts IMO
AND LAST WEEK I was called upon to assist a disable rider whose horse had panicked and thrown itself on the trailer floor and got stuck under partition horse had no travel gear and had lots of injuries i had to help out ( friend begged me) to assist this woman i lent her my travel gear and had to take this horse home for her,
And poll guards are as important as leg protection yet i see so few wearing them
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ILuvCowparsely
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If safety is more important, why not maintain the trailer better to allow you to go without boots?
1. i have a horsebox 7.5 tons
2. In this instance it wasn't my trailer it was a friends horse and friends trailer was hired
3. if there is an accident and trailer flips over and horse hasnt any leg protection chances are there will be serious injuries.
no 1 can predict an accident on roads
1 clipped by another vehicle causing snaking
2 windy day causing loss of control
3 tyre blow out
4. horse panicking throwing itself causing accident
5. car goes out of control through mechanical fault
6 car swerves in front
7 car behind overtakes cuts in front then he notices queue in front slams brakes on causing box to brake to hard thus horse falls
i have seen all and experienced some of the above
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ILuvCowparsely
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see this clip check out 0.59 - 1.02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eji6qKnXHb0
only takes a little lick in right place to kill horse.
hence why mine where poll guards
only takes a little lick in right place to kill horse.
hence why mine where poll guards
MeganLindsx
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Ranyhyn
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Maybe you need to go back and re-read my post. The horse isn't travelled "without protection" Leviathan, it's travelled with the protection most appropriate for the individual horse.
Damnation
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Bandages with pads underneath and hock and knee boots with overreach boots.
1) I can warm up in the bandages and pads when I get to the show.
2) I don't trust travel boots but want safety. My h orse has long but skinny legs. This means cob size fits around her leg but not as high up as I would like over the hocks etc. Whereas full size will slip down which I don't like either.
Last horse however wouldn't load or travel with anything on her legs. Second I took her bandages or boots off she would settle and load and travel fine. For me that was safer than her trashing with boots on but possibibily injuring herself.
1) I can warm up in the bandages and pads when I get to the show.
2) I don't trust travel boots but want safety. My h orse has long but skinny legs. This means cob size fits around her leg but not as high up as I would like over the hocks etc. Whereas full size will slip down which I don't like either.
Last horse however wouldn't load or travel with anything on her legs. Second I took her bandages or boots off she would settle and load and travel fine. For me that was safer than her trashing with boots on but possibibily injuring herself.
monkeybum13
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Always a leather headcollar.
Ranyhyn
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Can't see it
its probably something like an inane clip from My Friend Flicka...
JFTDWS
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Headcollar. That's it
Me too. Pony needs a new leather one though as he broke the last one
Unless I'm showing J, in which case I have been known to travel him with bandages, plasic bag taped over his feet and travel boots on top
I took him to the Suffolk a few years back like this:
If I'm not going far, I travel tacked up / booted/ bandaged for whatever I'm doing.
Montyforever
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Hardly ever travel mine but wouldn't have a hope in getting anything on honeys back legs never mind her tail!! But mysti has a set of pink travel boots and tail guard and a pink summer sheet or brown stripe fleece depending on the weather 
Just normal headcollars too unless going to a show then I would need a clean one 
Just normal headcollars too unless going to a show then I would need a clean one Lolo
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Reg has a leather headcollar, the leadrope is one which releases under pressure (so if you give it a sharp drag down, it opens which means we can get him undone quickly) and he has boots on the front that cover his knees and the coronet band. If it's a long journey, he has back boots or bandages, depending what's to hand on too.
He rarely travels in a rug as he sweats a lot and if you rug him he's even worse.
He rarely travels in a rug as he sweats a lot and if you rug him he's even worse.
ILuvCowparsely
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http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/296103.html horse trailer accident
More accidents on the M40.
Following last week's report of accidents closing the M40, further problems affected the M40 on Thursday when a small horse box towed by a car overturned on the northbound section between Lewknor and junc. 7. There were long queues whilst the accident was cleared and yet again journey times from London were extended by up to one or more hours.
Locals in Stokenchurch have noticed increased activity by the police helicopter in the last few days.
accidents can happen any journey you go on . You either protect or not protect - run the risk or not.
I am not seeing my mare lucked out when i bought her when through NO fault of the driver trailer flipped over facing the wrong way up the motorway filly was on drivers side roof came off horse scrambled out of roof she had no protection as she was unbroken.
I vowed that day NEVER to travel horse unprotected.
Another friend traveled their horse horse had no head gear truck with siren drove past trailer horse 16.1 panicked. when they got horse out when safe to do so horse had split his head in centre down to his skull just like a watermelon splitting open.
THATS why i always use poll guard like this .( i call it their trojan helmets lol)
At the end of the day you travel your horse how you want.
Me I would never forgive myself if through my stupidly not to protect my horse an accident happened like a Tyre blow out caused my box to veer quickly horse fall and legs got injured so for me .
Its wrap up well
More accidents on the M40.
Following last week's report of accidents closing the M40, further problems affected the M40 on Thursday when a small horse box towed by a car overturned on the northbound section between Lewknor and junc. 7. There were long queues whilst the accident was cleared and yet again journey times from London were extended by up to one or more hours.
Locals in Stokenchurch have noticed increased activity by the police helicopter in the last few days.
accidents can happen any journey you go on . You either protect or not protect - run the risk or not.
I am not seeing my mare lucked out when i bought her when through NO fault of the driver trailer flipped over facing the wrong way up the motorway filly was on drivers side roof came off horse scrambled out of roof she had no protection as she was unbroken.
I vowed that day NEVER to travel horse unprotected.
Another friend traveled their horse horse had no head gear truck with siren drove past trailer horse 16.1 panicked. when they got horse out when safe to do so horse had split his head in centre down to his skull just like a watermelon splitting open.
THATS why i always use poll guard like this .( i call it their trojan helmets lol)
At the end of the day you travel your horse how you want.
Me I would never forgive myself if through my stupidly not to protect my horse an accident happened like a Tyre blow out caused my box to veer quickly horse fall and legs got injured so for me .
Its wrap up well
ILuvCowparsely
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it might be inane but its true one knock in the right place in a trailer and that horse is toast This happened to a dealer near here. just like it happens to people one clout in wrong place with bat and your toast .
I have been driving horse boxes since 1987 so you could say I am experienced in traveling horses.
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Ranyhyn
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I don't disagree it's true. However, I find supporting your arguments with a 20th Century Fox childrens programme doesn't always help your argument to hold water
As for the garbled post above that, Leviathan most good horse people recognise what is sauce for the goose, isn't always sauce for the gander. There is no, one size fits all remedy. Travelling your horse in the gear which keeps THAT HORSE comfortable and safe, whatever it may be, is the main thing.
I think it's really condescending of you to assume your way is the only way and imply that you are somehow safeguarding your horse better than other people, because you do it one way and other people do it another. Each horse owner knows their horse better than YOU do and if they feel comfortable loading and travelling their horse in a certain way it's not down to you to "educate" them (with childrens movies/links etc) but rather to sit back and realise there's more than one way to skin a cat. If they feel their horse is more agitated by travelling paraphernalia then surely they cannot be deemed risk takers or stupid because they are doing what they can to make sure their horse is safe....
As for the garbled post above that, Leviathan most good horse people recognise what is sauce for the goose, isn't always sauce for the gander. There is no, one size fits all remedy. Travelling your horse in the gear which keeps THAT HORSE comfortable and safe, whatever it may be, is the main thing.
I think it's really condescending of you to assume your way is the only way and imply that you are somehow safeguarding your horse better than other people, because you do it one way and other people do it another. Each horse owner knows their horse better than YOU do and if they feel comfortable loading and travelling their horse in a certain way it's not down to you to "educate" them (with childrens movies/links etc) but rather to sit back and realise there's more than one way to skin a cat. If they feel their horse is more agitated by travelling paraphernalia then surely they cannot be deemed risk takers or stupid because they are doing what they can to make sure their horse is safe....
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ILuvCowparsely
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I don't disagree it's true. However, I find supporting your arguments with a 20th Century Fox childrens programme doesn't always help your argument to hold water
Jesus Christ it was an example of what can happen if your so pedantic . I am not going to waste my time on you explaining .
ILuvCowparsely
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JFTDWS
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No more so that my saying I always perform a "protego" charm on my trailer before travelling lest I be attacked by Lord Voldemort on the road
Ranyhyn
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Uhm it's not an example Leviathan....because it isn't real....
I can support arguments of pigs driving cars thanks to Peppa pig, but uhm, that's not real either?
'S'teamed
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Personal choice i suppose.
When i ran a Transportation business, the worst loaders/travellers/ones that stomped/kicked were the ones that wore those dreadful Travel Boot get ups.
My personal choice is just a leather headcollar, then attached to a 14" quick release once inside.
I also travel tacked up for Hunting/Fun Rides/Beach Rides.
When i ran a Transportation business, the worst loaders/travellers/ones that stomped/kicked were the ones that wore those dreadful Travel Boot get ups.
My personal choice is just a leather headcollar, then attached to a 14" quick release once inside.
I also travel tacked up for Hunting/Fun Rides/Beach Rides.
Ranyhyn
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No more so that my saying I always perform a "protego" charm on my trailer before travelling lest I be attacked by Lord Voldemort on the road
Keyboard...tea...!!!
JFTDWS
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Jesstickle
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I do believe this is the choice of nearly every single transporter in this country. Which I don't happen to think is a coincidence frankly. Certainly every TB we shipped abroad (including one to Dubai) went without boots at the request of the transport company anyway
ILuvCowparsely
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No more so that my saying I always perform a "protego" charm on my trailer before travelling lest I be attacked by Lord Voldemort on the road
God your taking this post into stupidity with a juvenile reply like that
you dont say and there i was thinking it was real????Uhm it's not an example Leviathan....because it isn't real....
I can support arguments of pigs driving cars thanks to Peppa pig, but uhm, that's not real either?
no its not real but what is real is the accident i saw in the newforest of a horse rearing in its trailer hitting the bar dropped to the floor of the trailer fitting vet was called PTS
It was my cousins horse My horses travel safe are protected thats all i care about.
Why you have to be so stupid with comments like that . I will never know maybe you haven't witness first hand a dead horses on the motorway traveling without protection .????
thats it I am leaving this thread going to find some intelligent post with the grown ups.
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JFTDWS
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I do believe this is the choice of nearly every single transporter in this country. Which I don't happen to think is a coincidence frankly. Certainly every TB we shipped abroad (including one to Dubai) went without boots at the request of the transport company anyway
Yep, the big transporters who brought mine down from Tain said the same...
Ranyhyn
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God your taking this post into stupidity with a juvenile reply like that
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No no, Leviathan it got there when you posted the video from My Friend Flicka as a basis for intelligent horse management...
JFTDWS
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God your taking this post into stupidity with a juvenile reply like that
My horses travel safe are protected thats all i care about.
Why you have to be so stupid with comments like that . I will never know maybe you haven't witness first hand a dead horses on the motorway traveling without protection .????
thats it I am leaving this thread going to find some intelligent post with the grown ups.
Because you're not making a solid, defensible argument. You can't use fiction to support your theory any more than I can balance an argument on believing Harry Potter to be factual.
I hope I never have to witness a horse dead at the side of a motorway - but I would be very surprised if such accidents can be avoided by the application of some fabric and half an inch of padding to my horses' legs.