The ordinary horse owner Olympics

[myheartinahoofbeat]

I'm bored and have been musing about Olympic sports for the ordinary horse owner. May I offer:
- Bin day hacking - marks for height of leap, speed of spin and artistic impression. Bonus points for number of passing pedestrians terrified.
- Fly mask hunting - a straight time trial, fastest owner back with horse's missing fly mask wins. For fairness, all masks will be in a 5 acre field with at least 7 trees and no more than one fenced boundary, the rest must be hedges. Ground must be undulating so no mask can be seen from a distance of more than 30m.

Any more?.

This is hysterical

 

[Glitter's fun]

Due to modernisation, the how many uses for baler twine team event will be replaced by a duct tape marathon. Competitors will be expected to demonstrate multiple re-repairs, where the second layer is applied more than a year after the first.

 

[Glitter's fun]

Synchronised elbow to cheek squirming.

Competitors are covered in muck, hair and toxic substances and then required remove a foreign body from their eye by using the one remaining square centimetre of clean skin on the inside of their elbow.

 

[3OldPonies]

This thread is amazing, it's actually tempted me back to the forum

How about fastest to get an escaped Shetland into a headlock and back in the stable? (head collars and ropes are banned as they're always in the tack room or car when it happens) Points deducted for falling over, swearing or ending up riding said pony backwards.

 

[Fraggle bells rock]

This thread is amazing, it's actually tempted me back to the forum

How about fastest to get an escaped Shetland into a headlock and back in the stable? (head collars and ropes are banned as they're always in the tack room or car when it happens) Points deducted for falling over, swearing or ending up riding said pony backwards.

Do you get extra point for initiative if you use under clothing. ( I have seen someone using their bra in the past to wrangle a Shetland)

 

[Gloi]

Today's event - cleg squashing. Most bodies squashed and collected in 5 minutes.

 

[3OldPonies]

Got another one. The Ragwort Ripout Challenge. Most whole Ragwort plants on a barrow without them falling off again.

Bonus event - getting the barrow under an electric fence because you can't be bothered to go the long way round to the gate.

Similar, The Sycamore Scratch Up. Fastest to fill a bucket with raked up sycamore seeds and get them all back to the muck heap without any blowing away.

 

[3OldPonies]

Do you get extra point for initiative if you use under clothing. ( I have seen someone using their bra in the past to wrangle a Shetland)

Initiative will be rewarded with a special rosette appropriate to the item used. I'm this case probably white with pink lace

 

[Glitter's fun]

NOTICE
Interviews will be held shortly for the GB Multitasking team.

Date - to be announced right at the last minute.
Time - 3.30 on a school day
Venue - The other vets' (That bit further away one with the difficult parking.)

Please come equipped to argue with your boss on Teams throughout your interview.

 

[3OldPonies]

For the crafters amongst us, best macrame item made from old baling string.

 

[Glitter's fun]

For the crafters amongst us, best macrame item made from old baling string.

Does it have to be deliberate, or can you actually have been attempting to tie a gate when it attached itself to your broken zip?

 

[3OldPonies]

Does it have to be deliberate, or can you actually have been attempting to tie a gate when it attached itself to your broken zip?

Well I was thinking of stuff like wall hangings, but on reflection I think that would count; but only if you get free without using a knife!

 

[Peglo]

How many electric fence posts can you stack in a wheelbarrow and take in from the field. Points deducted for posts falling out, swearing and crying when every single one falls out in the muddy puddle at the gate.
(I now use a wheelie bin)

 

[Ratface]

How many electric fence posts can you stack in a wheelbarrow and take in from the field. Points deducted for posts falling out, swearing and crying when every single one falls out in the muddy puddle at the gate.
(I now use a wheelie bin)

Points deducted if said fence posts are tied up with baler twine and baler twine tied to barrow handles at points nearest the aft body of the barrow?

 

[SEL]

How many electric fence posts can you stack in a wheelbarrow and take in from the field. Points deducted for posts falling out, swearing and crying when every single one falls out in the muddy puddle at the gate.
(I now use a wheelie bin)

I'm really good at this!!

Less good at winding tape up without twisting it though.

 

[Cowpony]

Following an experience last weekend......how to secure a broken lock on a tack locker when coming back from a show.

In real life, the gorilla tape I had on the lorry proved only to have an inch left on the roll. It stuck to the lorry, but not the lock, so I ended up leaving the lock sticking out, and have a new lock to replace it with tomorrow.

 

[hairycob]

Collecting ring rain challenge - most legible whiteboard after 30 minutes of downpour.

 

[Annagain]

I really don't remember starting this thread but I'm very proud of it! I don't think any of mine have managed more than a page before .