Would you let your horse jump this????

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Right then....
Honest opinions on this one please!!

I'm sure you all have these around and about your rides.
Fixed metal barriers across tracks. This one stands around 3ft, sharp edges, and a peice of jagged metal sticking out from one side.

So would you jump it, or avoid it?????

I will explain when i see some other views.

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No, I would be too scared they would hit it and hurt themselves. If I had to jump it, it would be from side of the second pic.
 
You could put your coat over it and then jump it, which is what happens out hunting over wire. It isn't that big a jump. Not something I would acutually choose, but it wouldn't be a barrier in an emergency.
 
Ummm - probably would, yes, but from the smooth side only - jump worse out hunting .....DEFFO would have when I was younger with ponies - we jumped anything we could find!
 
I probably wouldn't jump it now but must confess to jumping such things with my friend when we were young teenagers
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also jumped picnic tables, park benches, salt bins etc. I look back and think a. how stupid we were, and b. how lucky we were not to have any accidents, considering some of the stuff we jumped (everything we could!)
 
As a teenager I would jump anything to avoid having to open gates!!! Sheep pens, locked gates, styles etc etc. I would have jumped this either way on a horse I knew jumped well. Definatly jumped worse out hunting. Now though I seem to have chilled out somewhat and may consider jumping it from the smooth side but as you can go round it I would probably choose this option!!!
 
Absolutely not. I'd go around it because there is an option to.

If there was no way around it and I desperately wanted to go that way, then I might be tempted to jump it I guess. It's not that high and people jump huge walls and five bar gates out hunting.

 
Not unless I had to. In that there is a big gap to the side of it I'd say no. if it was wooden I'd say weehee but it'd be really easy to slice their leg open on that sharp edge and I'd always rather have a ground line which this doesn't appear to have
 
would avoid jumping it in nrmal circumstances but in an emergency then yes. like some other people have said, out hunting you jump much more than that - but as there is an open part to the side i would probably take that option!!
 
Ok so why i ask is.......

I love my horse to bits, and he wants for nothing, but as a single working parent, money is tight so for this very reason, my boy is not insured!! Of course if anything was wrong he would get the veterinary care he needed, no questions asked. But i am careful in what i do with him.

I split with my OH in Nov, but while we were together, he would ride Max if i was working and he was off. Max is mine, but i trusted OH to take him out, and take care of him, while they were out.
It turns out that while they were out together they were jumping this barrier, and god knows what else!!!!!

He never told me this, as i'm sure he knew i would go mad. One of the girls told me a few weeks ago. I was livid.
Yes Max is a jumper, and wears boots, but FFS he could have been seriously injured for the sake of it.

Just goes to show that ex OH is indeed a tw@t for no respect for things other people care about.
Just glad no accidents occured while i trusted him to take him out
 
If I had no other option and I could jump it from the smooth side. Yes, I probably would jump it. No worse than a cross country fence really.

Ideally, I wouldn't though. In your case there is a "go around" option so although I would probably eye it up and think about it, I most probably wouldn't.
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yes probably would, I'm more wqorried about ground on both sides of the fence than the jump itself. Why not insure your horse for a really really little value, just so you have vets fee's insured? Mine are insured for £200 a piece, and it costs under £20 a month to do so, plus at least I now have public liability insurance should they get out and cause trouble.
 
Only if I was confident that my horse was competant, but wouldn't if not necessary
I certainly would NOT on somebody else's horse
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