Tonight on our hack we met.....

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One low flying helicopter

One car plus caravan

One 4x4 pulling a enormous speed boat!!!

One tractor plus huge thing on back

One articulated lorry!!!

This is all on a quiet country road, at half six in evening. Thankfully my spooky shire x was brilliant, he was more scared of a bush that was a different colour ;-)
 
Can't compete - we only had a low flying chinook helicopter and they were both as good as gold, totally unbothered, strange when a stray pigeon sends them into a spin/flight frenzy!
 
Were lucky that ours are very used to low lfying helicopters, planes and gliders. We livery right next to the police helicopter and a gliding club. Horses take no notice when helicopter taking off or practicing it's sharp turns when it's bloody noisie!
Always good when your horse behaves in times like that
 
Must have been the night for it, I think we came across the 2011 Remake of Thunderbirds:

combine harvesters, mega tractors, grain trucks etc and they all parked in the entrance to the field we were about to cross into. Had to do a detour up the A26 to the bridlepath entrance. She didn't bat an eyelid, 'till we came across a really scarey 40mph sign painted on the road :)
 
i was stood with the younster who was tied up having a groom in the yard a couple days ago when a low flying Chinook came over us making a complete racket, I thought wow he was good! But thinking about it, they must be going over all the time when they are in the field xx
 
Yup know what you mean OP! Around here we get, either singly or in any combination, the following:-

Bleddy gurt double-hitched artics rattling down the lane outside with a lifting gib thing rattling on the back; farm tractors with trailers making a helluva racket & prongs on the front; alcoholic farmer up the road on quad-bike going like beggery; cyclists who pass very close - silent and deadly, and pig-ignorant with it; military aircraft flying low; screaming kidliwinks in pushchairs, who decide to throw a missile/teddy bear etc at nice horsey just as we're scraping past, halfway up the bank, with eyes boggling on stalks (OMG!); buses letting off airbrakes; not to mention having to go over bridges of a major trunk road - once on the way out, again on the way back, with people hooting at us as they pass underneath, Hells Angels going underneath just as you're crossing over on top; also we have to hack right beside said trunk road, so close that if you put out a driving whip you'd be tickling the tanker drivers on the nose!; oh and not forgetting the kids paddling pool and bouncy trampoline thing!! - and when they see the nice horsey they all come gadding out to see, trailing noisy toys, footballs etc etc.

Then there's a herd of cows tanking round in the field beside you when one, both, or all of the aforementioned challenges are coming at you from both directions.

You couldn't make it up ....!!!
 
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