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Location: Canada | Remember my "can't hook up my trailer due to snow" post? Which morphed into "does not matter I can't get the lights to work?"
Now my problem is the height of the snowbank :(
Well....it's all irrelevant....I WISH 6 inches of snow on the ground was my only problem.
I headed out to the barn today to see THIS:
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n195/NurseKathleen/P1000269.jpg
I'm trapped :( My horse and I are both trapped by BO either intentionally or not piling all that snow in front of my trailer. So, the working lights are irrelevant. I do not have a tractor to plow this out and BO herself contracts her snowplowing out so neither does she (not that she would do it anyway).
When is spring??????
Edited by Gaelic 2007-03-03 9:26 PM
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Location: PA | Next year make a huge sign for the side of the trailer that reads, "Don't plow trailer in!"
But I seriously doubt that even that would work. :)
Can you start parking the trailer perpendicular to the lot instead of parralel? That way there would be a way to leave access to the hitch. |
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Don't worry Global Warming will melt the snow, just takes a while!
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Location: Odenville, Alabama | Are you the only one at that barn with a trailer? Where does everyone else park? Are they plowed in too? Either your barn owner is a b t h, or you're parked where you shouldn't be. Move your horse! |
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Location: South Central OK | I agree with N2ridin, what if there was an emergency and you needed your trailer? You better tell your BO to call the plow guy back out! It's her duty to inspect the facility and make sure everyone's trailer can be used. If she is unwilling to have this fixed in a timely manner then you should be looking for another barn...how unprofessional of her to allow this gross negligence. |
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Location: Columbia, TN | Man! You need to move farther South!!!
Edited by iCE CRM 2007-03-04 5:11 PM
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Location: Canada | I am the only person at this barn with a trailer.
I have been trying to fix *other* problems with the trailer so I can move my horse outta there.
Now I can't even get my truck near it :(
Do I think she did this because she suspected I was going to leave (there are other issues, like crappy care, that I am enduring)? Perhaps. Actually, no, I don't think she's that smart. Plus. She contracts the snowplowing out. I doubt rentaplow even NOTICED the trailer or the fact I may need access :(
There isn't going to BE a next-year-park-it-somewhere-else because by May, I will be outta there. As soon as Global Warming hits ;) |
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Location: Southern New Mexico | That stinks!! Try to call whoever plowed it over there and complain that one of their drivers pushed all the snow against your trailer and see if they will send someone out to clear a way for you to get to the hitch. I don't think it would be to much to ask since UNcommon sense should have told them you may need the trailer before summer. |
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Location: Monroe, WA | Jeeze Louise...........Too doggone bad you are so stinkin' far from us, hubby could bring out his big bad rubber-tracked skidsteer and have you yarded out of there in a jiffy! Of course I might have to be riding shotgun, as he might accidentally pile all that snow on a certain Bo's vehicle....... operative term there is "shotgun", as in "creates instant respect".Sure hope you can get out of there soonest! What a bunch of total idiots! Kate (PS - nice looking trailer, worth the hassle!) edited for typos - sorry!
Edited by halfpint23 2007-03-05 4:37 PM
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Location: Minnesota | Yikes, that is a shame that the plow operator wasn't thinking.
The small farm where I board has their own Bobcat and they keep the trailers clear. They had a horse once who needed emergency colic surgery at the University, so they never allow the trailers to be blocked in.
We had a foot of snow on Thursday and I needed to haul on Saturday and it was minimal shoveling to get my BP out.
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Location: Ottawa, ON | WOW.I'd be raising three kinds of hell if that happened to me! If you just had the same warm/freeze cycle we are going through, that will be solid ice right now.All I can say is that had better be cleared away BEFORE you get your lights working! Is that a McBride?Chris |
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Location: Northern IN. | I think that I'd be real tempted to hire someone to come in and move all that snow for me and then I'd leave the bill on the BO's desk!! Maybe, just maybe, he/she will think a little more next time. What an idiot. Talk to y'all later... |
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Location: Canada | Yeah, it's just been one darn thing after the other with this trailer.
We are having similar freezing conditions to Ottawa so yeah, it's a mountain of ice by now.
It's a 1993 Royale trailer. Four horse head to head. The front is good, the ramp on the back end isn't ;)
I keep watching the weather channel praying for a thaw, but it's -35 with the wind chill here today so it's not looking good :(
BO is a nut, and I'm sure my trailer didn't even cross her mind. Plus, an excellent way of keeping me here, no? |
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| Seeing the glass closer to full than with some taken from it;
Maybe, just MAYBE the plow operator figured that folk just don't trailer horses around when there is that much snow on the ground and the temps are bouncing around in the double digit negative numbers.
Even here in sunny Massachusetts it is RARE to see a horse trailer on the road until early April.
The WHOLE WORLD isn't out to GET YA !
{tendencies to paranoia notwithstanding}
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Location: Ottawa, ON | Hey Gaelic, Curious how this all turned out for you? Are you on the road yet?
Edited by 10Ha.Wood 2007-04-26 11:58 AM
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New Height Problems with my trailer...again
