Some people just don't think!!!

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Kokopelli

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Well all know how much of a pain the snow balling up in the feet is and how dangerous it can be, thats why just as any horse I'm leading in enters the barn I pick out the feet to stop them slipping over.

So today someone brings their horse in who comes hammering down the frozen yard into the barn and instantly slips down onto his knees, now he has cut knees, not too bad but will probably grow back white. Not to mention he is a show pony with a lot of potential so his career will probably have been cut short. How hard would it have been to slow the horse up a bit stop him and pick out the feet?!?

Then go into teh water room to find someone tipping their bucket out across the room!!! Do they not know it will freeze and turn the place into an ice rink. Then they get the ice out of their bucket and put it by the drain!! What do they expect it will melt and go down the drain even though it hasn't got warmer then -4 the last 2 days??? :confused:

Seriously what is wrong with some people??

Sorry rant over, fed up with the cold and not being able to ride my new pony :(
 
Argh some people :mad:

Not the same but:
We had a guy from UPS come trudging onto the yard having parked on somebody's LAWN (what gives him the right to do this when there is a perfectly good driveway is beyond me) and got stuck, who then asked if we could tow him out. "Do you have a rope?" "*Blank Face* No"


So off we trot with a lunge rope, which of course snapped - and he dug a trench in the poor people's lawn. Excellent.
 
I lost the plot last year at someone that insisted on hosing their horses legs off even though it was freezing overnight and leaving the yard like an ice rink!
Also the person that decided to spray their haynet with water right outside my stable, so the next morning I had a sheet of ice by the door :(
 
Ours is " oh, the taps frozen" off they trot home and when they come back to put horses to bed some one has usually defosted it.
 
JessandCharlie said:
I'm feeling quite smug, sorry. I'm on a private yard atm. Bliss.
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Me too :D

A lorry got stuck outside our house recently - the guy knocked on our door and TOLD my OH to get a tractor (OH isn't insured to use tractors for 'commercial' purposes) when my OH told the guy he couldn't do that but would try and dig him out with a shovel the guy snorted 'I doubt it'. My OH still went out to help him regardless of this guys rudeness and when he finally got going, after 40 MINUTES, the guy didn't even say thank you!!!! No hand out the window or flash of the hazards or anything!

Personally, I'd of chased after the sod, flattened his tyre and left him to dig himself out

oh, we were also left with a beautiful ditch... :rolleyes:
 
dont worry we arent all that stupid.

I accidentally spilt some water on the yard yesterday when i slipped whilst carrying my bucket.
I immediately went and got a tub of shavings and covered the water in shavings. At least when it freezes it wont be sheet ice, the shavings will give it a rough surface.
 
fizzer said:
Ours is " oh, the taps frozen" off they trot home and when they come back to put horses to bed some one has usually defosted it.
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Oh that sounds so familiar!! They turn up and the fairies have either defrosted the hose or done their water buckets for them!! Funny that how they miraculously fill themselves isn't it lol!! :D
 
Well what about the people who tip their water buckets out in front of your 43yr old arthritic stiff mares stable so you can't get her out

OR

after you spend 3 hours clearing the snow and ice to make an ice free area area and path so you can at least get her out and walk her, they comment on how hard you worked then pour a bucket of water over it.

Or the people who 'accidently' spill water over your stable door into your oldies stable
 
This year I thought sod it and bought several 25kg sacks of salt grit myself and have been sprinkling it around the fronts of my stable and around the tap and drain areas. Last year several people slipped over in the barn whilst doing their horses, and the YO wont do anything.
 
Christmas Boxes said:
No way! Someone tipped water into your stable? Who would be so mean? That's awful.
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Me and another girl on the yard have a few issues, well she has an issue with me. She has hated me since I arrived and will often go b1tching to other liverys about me.

I probably don't help by being sickingly nice to her everytime I see her and helping her out occasionally ....
 
Tinsel_Tree said:
Well what about the people who tip their water buckets out in front of your 43yr old arthritic stiff mares stable so you can't get her out

OR

after you spend 3 hours clearing the snow and ice to make an ice free area area and path so you can at least get her out and walk her, they comment on how hard you worked then pour a bucket of water over it.

Or the people who 'accidently' spill water over your stable door into your oldies stable
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Grrrrrrrr :mad::mad::mad::mad:

How do you stand it????? I'd be up for murder by now if I'd had to put up with stuff like that. Poor you.
 
gosh some of you do share yards with some daft bints, our YO is a nightmare but at least she dont venture anywhere near us in this weather, and myself and the other 2 girls on the yard help each other out and are sensible with where water is tipped.
Always leave a bucket of water in the kitchen/toilet room to fill kettle in the morning so who ever is first can fill and boil kettle to defrost tap (normally i am first but i dont mind)
 
I'm feeling rather smug too I must admit. I'm on full livery and our YO is very good and all the yard is cleared. Plus there are no DIY's, so it all gets done the same sensible way. Just scanning the other posts, can't believe some people can be so thick!
 
She is one of those people who is really nice on the surface so no-one listens, webcam is a good idea though. I may have to bait her to come down to bottom yard though, she was only there today because her tap has frozen. I actually saw her tipping it but I was the only one on the yard at the time :mad:
 
Am so lucky that all the liveries on the yard we are on go home for christmas, bingo - yard to our selves!! Have cleared the snow and well salted so we have safe tracks to get the horses to the field. Leave a kettle full of water so I can always get boiling water to help defrost the taps. I must admit to tipping hay water out, it goes at the back of the yard on the grass where no-one goes, so it is as safe as it can be, and I'm not feeding my copd mare dusty hay for anyone I'm afraid!!
Hope the freeze has gone before the students get back as they have all had a major common sense/think of others bypass!
Why, when it is freezing for weeks on end and you can't even bother yourself to scatter some salt that I have brought, is it then necessary to walk about 1 foot with your horses bucket and then just chuck it across the path. When I come by up to do late night check it is totally lethal! So I put salt down to save people breaking their necks on it next morning, to find the same idiots have washed the salt away by chucking out more water, then lead their horses skidding and slidding across the ice! How they get away with it I have no idea, the number of big accidents they have narrowly missed in unbelievable!
 
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