Things found out hacking

[Rokele55]

I found a very young collie puppy, no more than 6 weeks old, while exercising very early one morning. He was right in the middle of a common miles from any dwelling. I was riding and leading and I had to stuff him down my shirt to carry him back to the yard. Gates were Interesting on the way home as the horse i was riding was 17hh. I never found where he came from, presumed abandoned. A local farmer had him and he worked out well

 

[scotlass]

Several cars parked closely together in a car park just off a golf course in Edinburgh. Bare backsides visible, lots of hands pressed against windows and some people watching. I believe the correct term has something to do with canines ..

I made the horse look the other way

 

[holeymoley]

These are cracking lol

Nothing too exciting for me, some ‘lads mags’ and condoms in a lay by years ago. Unfortunately also a farmer who had committed suicide. Nothing too exciting, a couple of tins of tuna in the forest, obviously too much for someone to carry!

 

[abbijay]

A couple of months back I was noticing the amount of rubbish thrown into the hedgerows on a hack when I spotted a pregnancy test. I was too high up to see the result but I always wonder why they'd have been carrying a pee'd on stick in the car only to then throw it out of the window!
I also once stumbled into a tug of war practice session. The horse was shocked by 8 burly lads all huffing and calling and the lads seemed pretty surprised to be interrupted by the horse and i.
Thankfully never while on horse back but some of the laybys on the road to our yard are used for dogging. I once wondered why there were 2 cars parked after dark with their lights on inside, people moving about and slightly steamed up windows. I was mortified when I realised what I'd stumbled on! The yard owner once found a D!ldo thrown over the fence into the field adjacent to the layby!

 

[Fransurrey]

I once found £100. Never dismounted so fast, ha ha! I also have a really nice scarf that had been in a tree for a week or so. Cleaned up a treat. Speaking of condoms, we found a glasses pouch outside our drive last week rammed full of different flavours. We imagine a lusty young fella had cycled to his lover and dropped them. Will pay attention to who is up the duff in our village for the next couple of months, he he!

 

[ameeyal]

I found a young kitten last Sunday, it cried when it heard me and my friend talking. I went back hours later to see if it was still there, and it was.

 

[MiJodsR2BlinkinTite]

Round us the delivery drivers stop and open packages, and then chuck the contents in the ditches, (i assume). Ive found packs of safety gloves, LPs and books when stopped to investigate.

Oohhh!!! I had a very strong suspicion that this is what happens all too frequently............

 

[cindars]

A friend and I also found a guinea pig that had been dumped lucky for us someone came by and took him to a rescue centre.

 

[vmac66]

I found a, tortoise many many years ago. It was walking down a, country road. I dismounted and picked it up and. rode home with reins in one hand and tortoise in the other. Seem to remember it lived for years.

 

[chaps89]

@ameeyal Did you retrieve the kitten/is it ok? Poor thing

 

[Leam_Carrie]

Bras... not that I pick them up. Often in the same spot - sometimes multiple. It’s on a lane so not sure how they’re getting there!

 

[SEL]

When I used to ride on cannock chase years ago there was a guy who used to practice the bagpipes up there. Hungover one morning on a horse who heard them before me. Wooosh....all the way home. I stayed on through sheer willpower!

Same area, same horse out one day in the pouring rain riding through one of their little car parks. I was hiding under many layers of waterproof coats and didn't spot the car wiggling around until we were right next to it. No way wet and grumpy horse was going to divert from the track that went home so I just looked the other way. Think the horse had a good nose through the window though.

 

[Mule]

Wow. Until I read this thread I didn't realise hacking could be so eventful!

 

[Gloi]

A stag jumped into the lane right in front of me with his already impressive antlers covered in a large mound of bracken. I was driving a Sh*tland at the time who proceeded to go backwards as fast as his little legs could manage.

A few weeks ago a 3 foot high number 5 helium balloon bounced down the road towards me and I had to get a driver to catch and dispose of it.

 

[ycbm]

The Naked Rambler. The horse I was on could not take his eyes of the guy's meat and two veg. It was hilarious, he nearly tripped over his own feet staring at it 🤣😂🤣

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

@ameeyal Did you retrieve the kitten/is it ok? Poor thing

I'd also like to know it the poor thing is ok

 

[Keith_Beef]

I've only seen very mundane things and litter. A half dozen DVD cases with porno film labels, the occasional single glove or hat.

The one thing that I suppose counts as unusual was a dumped pile of small apples, probably crab apples, judging by the size of them. The horses didn't take any interest in them whatsoever.

 

[Bs_mum]

We often get people fly tip stuff in our gates as we on quite a remote country lane.
On hacking past one day someone had dumped a load of rubbish, had stopped horse to have an investigate when the pile started to move of it’s own accord phoned DH who shot down in his Land Rover to discover a good 18-20ft snake wrapped in a bedsheet

 

[rabatsa]

I have over the years had lots of useful finds. Full boxes of welding rods, tow chains, a full box of tools that had obviously come adrift going round a corner and scattered all over the road, a brand new pair of Doc Martins in OH's size. There were also many couples coupling. One memorable day on the river bank the mare shied at one and jumped a second as she cantered away.

 

[ameeyal]

@ameeyal Did you retrieve the kitten/is it ok? Poor thing

Yes it was starving and covered in fly eggs, about 4 weeks old. I’ve never had a cat before, she’s very funny, I live on a farm so she’s going to be my farm cat.

 

[Scoti1420]

phoned DH who shot down in his Land Rover to discover a good 18-20ft snake wrapped in a bedsheet

WHAT

 

[SEL]

discover a good 18-20ft snake wrapped in a bedsheet

I read that over my morning cereal - woke me up!!

Can I ask what your OH then did with the snake? Any particular type? I feel the need for more details

 

[conniegirl]

I've come across:
a couple who were getting amorous in a car,
an unexploded WW2 bomb,
a loose tacked up horse,
several loose dogs
a flotilla of rubber ducks in a stream.

 

[Baywonder]

Mine is quite mundane - and I wasn't hacking out at the time. I went to get my horse in from the field early one morning to go for a hack, and there was a transit van upside down in his field. Somehow it had managed to somersault cleanly over a 7ft hedge. We never did find out what happened and how it actually got there!

 

[Gusbear]

Not so much what I found, but what found me.
Nearly 40 years ago and I was out hacking as a very naive 16 year old.
I had a guy jump out from behind some trees and flash me. Stereotypical raincoat scenario too. I remember saying is that all you have to offer. No idea where that comment came from as I’d never seen a male human appendage before that incident.
I wasn’t the least bit traumatised, however my horse was a little startled.
The worst thing was dad taking me to the police station where I had to give a statement.
My dad was very square and anything to do with sex was never mentioned in our home. I was very shy, dad was very old fashioned and reserved.
After the indignity of having to tell the very young police officer all the details, I was given a copy of my statement. Dad, being a former police detective grabbed the statement from me and read it out aloud. I still cringe now all these years later hearing him repeat the words of the flasher to me as he read the statement. So love, want to suck my ****.? After that incident there was an unspoken agreement between us that the flashing incident would never be discussed ever again. I was mortified. I’m going red even now thinking about it. Mum couldn’t stop laughing knowing how much of an old fogey dad was.
Then a few years ago a friend and I were hacking on Epsom Downs. We just emerged from a heavily wooded area at back of the racecourse. It was a few days before the Derby. We ride into the clearing near the starting stalls and without warning a huge black helicopter takes off literally 30 feet in front of us. Then a second chopper took off a few seconds later. My god it was like Apocalypse Now! I immediately crapped myself waiting for my horse to bolt off at full speed in a complete panic. He stood there as calm as anything and I sat there like a stone whilst it they took off in front of us and zoomed off overhead. Horse simply looked up and watched them fly away then calmly walked off without so much as batting an eyelid.
Lastly, not so much what we found but what happened. Riding down a narrow lane, cement mixer coming toward us. Driver turns off his engine and the mixer and signals me to walk past. I stop to thank him. Horse realises there’s a human inside the truck and that means treats. Horse, all 18 + hands sticks his massive head inside the window to say Hi and mug the driver. Poor guy nearly had a heart attack.

 

[Bs_mum]

WHAT

I read that over my morning cereal - woke me up!!

Can I ask what your OH then did with the snake? Any particular type? I feel the need for more details

Apparently it was a reticulated python?! All
I can tell you was it was massive in length and girth and a pale yellow/cream colour. Was very cold and somewhat docile. I say docile, once unwrapped it just kind of laid there looking around. Was re-wrapped and put in the back of the land rover. We called the non emergency police number who attended, had a look then called the rspca who came and collected it. They decided that it was just an unwanted pet as it wasn’t in terrible condition (not that I know anything about snakes-just what they said) but they’re not easily re-Homeable.
They did ask if we wanted to keep it, but after telling me if was capable of eating a piglet or lamb I politely declined. Might of made a good rat catcher though 🤔 but not favourable with small children running around... unless in tantrum mode!!

 

[The Trooper]

Lastly, not so much what we found but what happened. Riding down a narrow lane, cement mixer coming toward us. Driver turns off his engine and the mixer and signals me to walk past. I stop to thank him. Horse realises there’s a human inside the truck and that means treats. Horse, all 18 + hands sticks his massive head inside the window to say Hi and mug the driver. Poor guy nearly had a heart attack.

This would honestly be either of my two mares! I'm sitting at my desk creased over in laughter at the sight of this!

 

[Asha]

These are brilliant. having a good ole chuckle reading them all. Weve always joked we have eventful hacks, but have never encountered anything as funny as you lot.

Hacking out one day down a single track lane, we came across a crane carrying a massive trampoline, for some reason they where trying to get it into a field full of cows , but they hit the gate with it and broke it. So followed us back down the lane. Another day we met some loose cows, and helped to round them up and drive them back into the field. See, in comparison very boring !!

 

[2ndtimearound]

When I used to ride on cannock chase years ago there was a guy who used to practice the bagpipes up there. Hungover one morning on a horse who heard them before me. Wooosh....all the way home. I stayed on through sheer willpower!

Same area, same horse out one day in the pouring rain riding through one of their little car parks. I was hiding under many layers of waterproof coats and didn't spot the car wiggling around until we were right next to it. No way wet and grumpy horse was going to divert from the track that went home so I just looked the other way. Think the horse had a good nose through the window though.

Riding on Cannock Chase can still be interesting! Later on last year we had to contend with a chap known colloquially as 'the green-faced pervert', who used to lurk in the bushes (usually in the same area) wearing camouflage paint on his face but no trousers. He was reported to the police and, fortunately, caught and arrested, I believe.

On a more positive note, around this time last year we came across a couple who were out flying their bird of prey (a Harris hawk, I think).

 

[Gusbear]

The Trooper. A similar thing happened at our first ever dressage test. The judge’s car was parked just inside the indoor. We had done a lovely test to date, but just as we passed A horse sees humans, thinks there are treats to be had. Our circle left had a notation on our test that horse was flexing right instead of left. That was because the judge had the window of her car wound down and dear horse could smell food.
Oh, the shame! Got a 6th place that time.