What have you met hacking recently?

[juliette]

My friend and I went for a hack locally on Friday. We had only been about 300 yards when we met the bin lorry! Carried on for about half a mile and met local farmer in his light aircraft just about to take off. Watched it taxi down the field and take off!!! Then met a lady walking her dog, carrying her baby in one of those rucksack type things (friends horse has had issues with rucksacks before!). All this in less than a mile!!
Pleased to say horses were fantastic!

 

[spotty_pony]

Met the Beagles out on a hack yesterday. My boy thought he was hunting...

 

[proudwilliam]

Pigs loaded on a trailer!!!
Horse and I ended up on the hedge and the hack home was interesting like riding a Spanish School horse. Love him.!

 

[juliette]

Met the Beagles out on a hack yesterday. My boy thought he was hunting...

EEk!

Pigs loaded on a trailer!!!
Horse and I ended up on the hedge and the hack home was interesting like riding a Spanish School horse. Love him.!

Ah, now that one would have been interesting, my boy is not scared of pigs (lives with some) but the trailer.................. we don't cope too well with them if they rattle!

 

[Katie__Connie]

Of all the weird and wonderful things I have met out hacking... my boy has been most scared of a horse and cart- weird!

 

[CarolineJ]

Today it was three quad bikes herding cows - didn't bat an eyelid, bless him (Though it might have been a different story if I'd riding instead of leading!)

 

[spotty_pony]

Oh, and we quite regularly meet an emu and some alpacas in one of the nearby villages!

 

[cassie summers]

Friday we met a cement mixer the type you hire the little ones and it was going around after we cantered 100 yards up road composed ourselfs and started again then oh no a lady with a .... carrier bag you would have thought it was a monster yet we see a bin lorry no prob artic no prob funny horse and yesterday a collie with a large white fluffy tail going through the grass she must have thought it was jaws as she couldnt see it attatched to the dog

 

[HorseandGroom]

Sign of the times but we met Father Christmas today on his way to Dobbies Spencers Wood!
Before that years ago we met a Combine Harvester and 4 tractors with trailers all at once.
We also passed a Salad Farm and the sprinklers hit the road we were riding on and gave the impression the water was chasing you! That was fun...
But possibly the best was a young Irish lad out with his Girl in his car stuck up to his axles and asking if my horse could pull him out on a tow rope!
There have been others ... Ian

 

[monkeybum13]

The last time I went for a hack the village had their halloween scarecrow trail.
There were all sorts of "scary" scarecrows dotted around the village, a lot of horses had spooked at them but dobbin just plods past.

One of the scarecrows was a police man with a hi viz jacket stood on the side of the road with a scarecrow robber complete with swag climbing up the roof of a stable block. As I passed we had to stand next to it so some children could take photos because the thought we looked like the police (big bay horse covered in yellow hi viz!)

Horse is now lame and off work and I miss the hacking, she goes past anything!

 

[FestiveBoomBoom]

Pheasants. Literally HUNDREDS of them, flying at you from all directions!

 

[juliette]

Of all the weird and wonderful things I have met out hacking... my boy has been most scared of a horse and cart- weird!

The horse i used to loan was the same and would bolt if we bumped into my friend driving her horse. Terribly embarrassing!

 

[juliette]

Pheasants. Literally HUNDREDS of them, flying at you from all directions!

Yes that's a daily occurrence here too!

 

[siant2]

A collection of swans of a sudden waddled across the road as we were trotting along!!!! My girl didnt even bat an eyelid but the horse behind 'lost all control'!!! hehe

 

[Shooting Star]

I used to keep my horse near a film studios - there were some very interesting loads that used to go past on the back of lorries.

I think my personal favourite was a giant solid metal ball nice and shiney and must have been 4-5 metres across, needless to say we didn't manage to keep our composure on that occassion

 

[Pedantic]

Dicks illegally parking, dicks zooming past in cars and motorhomes far far too fast and what looked like a very large pink used jonny on the river bank, was a
chinese lantern looking disgusting which will take literally months to rot away leaving wire for wildlife to get trapped in

Other than that rather a pleasant ride with a friend

 

[Nagling]

well we hacked quite sensibly past a bright orange wind sock blowing over the hedge in the wind and then nearly died of fright when we saw a banana skin in the road - was quite entertaining really! Thats horses for you though

 

[stacie21]

Of all the weird and wonderful things I have met out hacking... my boy has been most scared of a horse and cart- weird!

yes mine was the same we passed combines at work in field, various tractors, farm machinery, men shooting, bin lorries and no problem but when we met a pony and cart was the scariest thing ever totally freaked him out lol did not understand at all

 

[ElleSkywalker]

My friends horse coming the other way. Damn chestnut monsters screamed to each other till they met. Was like a little ginger love story......

 

[Pedantic]

My friends horse coming the other way. Damn chestnut monsters screamed to each other till they met. Was like a little ginger love story......

 

[1Lucie]

A huge multi coloured kite in the middle of farmers field to scare birds. My new boy is normally so brave but he went nuts and nearly took me into a huge dyke. The nanny horse wasnt happy either and we ended up going home :-(

 

[MiCsarah]

We pass daily the gliding club and the runway is literally next to the road so we walk past alot of landing and taking off planes. Also go past the police helicopter base and quite often will be passing as it comes and goes. Lots of pheasants and bird scarers

 

[scribble]

2 big green army helicopters on the runway we hack, light aircraft landing 50 yards form us (our route runs 50 yds from the end of the runway) sheep, pheasants by the hundred, a gyrocopter, an industrial power washer being used on a drive and she walked straight past it, royals at the pub and all thier entorages, quad bike, football teams, tennis club, auction, and a party with ballons by the gate and a skip. my girl is a 4 yr old and hacks on her own since she was broken last year. such a star.

 

[Zarkaz]

A loose dog that had blocked me off from the yard so we had to stand and wait until it disappeared :-(

 

[padderpaws]

two backpackers with donkeys (also carrying backpacks) horses all fine until the donkeys started breying:
This is why I would like to move to Cyprus with my horse. Only thing out there is the odd goat herder.

 

[HudsonsDad]

Bright yellow recumbant tricycle with a collie on a lead, ok second time round First time much backing and spinning.

 

[Sprout]

Last weekend, on the New Forest, well known for its quiet hacks etc, in the space of 5 mins .... a tractor being driven by a crazy old farmer who had watched too much Top Gear and was trying to do hand brake turns in his vintage tractor whilst chasing a runaway cow, and behind him a mad woman in a boiler suit shouting like a banshee and waving her arms to stop the runaway cow doubling back, followed round the next bend in the quiet lane by a trials bike roaring up and down one side of the hedge, a quad bike racing up and down the other hedge and infront, a tractor hedge cutting with debris flying everywhere .... lets not even mention the local Hunt and the round up of the wild ponies ......

 

[CrazyMare]

Half a dozen dead rooks tied up and flapping around.

A train on a lorry coming up a narrow lane - wide load escort vicheals had us wait in a gateway - horses didn't bat an eyelid.

Village carnival floats going into the farm to be prepared.

Buses and bin lorries are normal things to come across, as are quarry trucks and cement mixers.

 

[MiJodsR2BlinkinTite]

Interesting that several here have mentioned that meeting a horse and carriage was the thing that their horses have found the most spookey.

My old boy was 200% bombproof, you could put a kiddie on him and he'd go anywhere, do anything, and they'd be as safe as houses on him. You could literally have dropped a bomb in his field, and as long as it didn't do a direct hit on his feed-bin he'd totally ignore it, BUT we used to get a donkey towing a cart around here - and I've never ever seen the poor old lad so scared as he was that day! He was absolutely trembling, bless him, and its the only time in his entire life that he ever spooked at anything.

I've a friend who drives, and she says that this is a very common thing. For some reason horses are terrified of seeing another horse with something trundling behind them.

 

[SonnysHumanSlave]

A steam engines tractor!
And it came right past us!

Horses weren't bothered 2 hoots.

But a man up the road with a walking stick... That was different story!!

Yesterday morning, I saw a few dear standing 100yards from me, red didn't notice lol