Deefa
Well-Known Member
What a day i had yesterday!
I was meant to be competeing at Belvoir Team chase with a team but i never got there in the end!
Be warned this may be long lol
Meant to be leaving yard at 10 to get to show with plenty of time so dad pulls up in the lorry, drop ramp and load all the bits into it. Pony loads and everthing is ready. As we lift the ramp to close it i hear a small craking noise so once its secure dad comes over and notices that one of the hinges holding the ramp has small fracture in it.
Ity was only tiny and we thought it would make the journey but didn't want to risk it so we decided to drive the lorry back to the farn whwere we park it just down the road, unload harry there and borrow a freinds trailer to take harry in
We pull up at at the farm fine and me and dad go to lower the ramp. As it gets about half way i hear another louder crack so shout to dad to watch it. As i did so the hinge broke my side of the ramp was pushed away from the loory by the spring and it swung 90 degrees the other way from the pressure from the other spring. Dad who was on the other side of the ramp go flug backwards under a trailer about 10 foot away and couldn't get up.
At this point mum goes to help dad, i run to the farm house to fetch the calvery to come and help dad. Also my freinds arrive with the trailer keys.
After 5 mnutes of getting dad up onto a deck chair to rest a minute it dawns on up that we have no ramp on the lorry anymore but we still have a pony in the lorry and the drop is about 5 foot onto concrete.
Harry was a total star and stood like an angel while 5 men - including a hobbling dad, me and mum unhinge the ramp and wedge it into a gap solid enough to take harrys weight on it.
Luckily we managed it and harry came down saftly. By this time it was 10.45. We had decided to not go to the team chase as dad was struggling but dad keep saying he was fine and told us to load him up.
So we loaded him up in the trailer at 11am, rang my other team members to try and delay our time to run which they did as we were in at 12.11 and its take and hour and a half to get there.
So we start our journey, dad feels a little better and his legs were working well!.
7 miles away from home on a duel carriage way for some reason harry falls in the trailer and it starts rocking so much dad was having to use both lanes of the carriage way just to keep it upright. We manage to bring it back and stop to go and check him and he had snapped the partition in half and had ripped his banages up. At this point we give up. I rang my team and told them to run without me.
Mum went and stopped the traffic in the lane we were in and we unloaded harry there and took him onto the grass verge. checked him over and he semed ok, no large cuts just a few grazes and very shaken up.
As we didn't know anyone else with a lorry and i was not puttig him back in a trailer we had to walk him home. We rang the traffic peole and asked if we could have an excort as it was 4 miles of busy duel carriage way but they said no so we made the journey - 7 and a half miles walking him home!
He was a saint. he went under moterway bridges, round massive islands, let huge lorries pass him and everything!
Me and mum walked harry home together and Dad took the trailer back to our house to see what could be done with the partition.
The partition ended up that it was impossible to repair he had totally wreaked it. So we ring up my brothers to come and help and me, dad my two brothers and mum made a brand new partition for the trailer. We went and bought all the materials and it turned out lovely. By the time we had done it was 7.30 in the evening. Dad couldn't walk at all but still refuses to go to the doctors (although we have managed to get him to have today off work!!) My knees have given up totally.
My freinds called us stupid for not ringing them up to come and help as it was an accident but were very pleased with there new partiton - which i have to say is much better than the old one was!
Harry is rather stiff this morning so i may walk him out in-hand this mornign and see if it walks off or ring the vet if he is worse.
My team also went great round the course, just a litle fast as it was an optinum time not fastest time!
So all in all a totally rubbush day lol - other than my teams results
I was meant to be competeing at Belvoir Team chase with a team but i never got there in the end!
Be warned this may be long lol
Meant to be leaving yard at 10 to get to show with plenty of time so dad pulls up in the lorry, drop ramp and load all the bits into it. Pony loads and everthing is ready. As we lift the ramp to close it i hear a small craking noise so once its secure dad comes over and notices that one of the hinges holding the ramp has small fracture in it.
Ity was only tiny and we thought it would make the journey but didn't want to risk it so we decided to drive the lorry back to the farn whwere we park it just down the road, unload harry there and borrow a freinds trailer to take harry in
We pull up at at the farm fine and me and dad go to lower the ramp. As it gets about half way i hear another louder crack so shout to dad to watch it. As i did so the hinge broke my side of the ramp was pushed away from the loory by the spring and it swung 90 degrees the other way from the pressure from the other spring. Dad who was on the other side of the ramp go flug backwards under a trailer about 10 foot away and couldn't get up.
At this point mum goes to help dad, i run to the farm house to fetch the calvery to come and help dad. Also my freinds arrive with the trailer keys.
After 5 mnutes of getting dad up onto a deck chair to rest a minute it dawns on up that we have no ramp on the lorry anymore but we still have a pony in the lorry and the drop is about 5 foot onto concrete.
Harry was a total star and stood like an angel while 5 men - including a hobbling dad, me and mum unhinge the ramp and wedge it into a gap solid enough to take harrys weight on it.
Luckily we managed it and harry came down saftly. By this time it was 10.45. We had decided to not go to the team chase as dad was struggling but dad keep saying he was fine and told us to load him up.
So we loaded him up in the trailer at 11am, rang my other team members to try and delay our time to run which they did as we were in at 12.11 and its take and hour and a half to get there.
So we start our journey, dad feels a little better and his legs were working well!.
7 miles away from home on a duel carriage way for some reason harry falls in the trailer and it starts rocking so much dad was having to use both lanes of the carriage way just to keep it upright. We manage to bring it back and stop to go and check him and he had snapped the partition in half and had ripped his banages up. At this point we give up. I rang my team and told them to run without me.
Mum went and stopped the traffic in the lane we were in and we unloaded harry there and took him onto the grass verge. checked him over and he semed ok, no large cuts just a few grazes and very shaken up.
As we didn't know anyone else with a lorry and i was not puttig him back in a trailer we had to walk him home. We rang the traffic peole and asked if we could have an excort as it was 4 miles of busy duel carriage way but they said no so we made the journey - 7 and a half miles walking him home!
He was a saint. he went under moterway bridges, round massive islands, let huge lorries pass him and everything!
Me and mum walked harry home together and Dad took the trailer back to our house to see what could be done with the partition.
The partition ended up that it was impossible to repair he had totally wreaked it. So we ring up my brothers to come and help and me, dad my two brothers and mum made a brand new partition for the trailer. We went and bought all the materials and it turned out lovely. By the time we had done it was 7.30 in the evening. Dad couldn't walk at all but still refuses to go to the doctors (although we have managed to get him to have today off work!!) My knees have given up totally.
My freinds called us stupid for not ringing them up to come and help as it was an accident but were very pleased with there new partiton - which i have to say is much better than the old one was!
Harry is rather stiff this morning so i may walk him out in-hand this mornign and see if it walks off or ring the vet if he is worse.
My team also went great round the course, just a litle fast as it was an optinum time not fastest time!
So all in all a totally rubbush day lol - other than my teams results
