I believe that you will agree this is awesome! 

Here is the interior of the LQ

Here is the interior of the horse compartment . . . bigger than any other two horse straight on the inside . . . conventional size on the outside.  I just don't know how they do it!!!! It is so big that they put three horses in their two horse trailer.  Those former NASA engineers are pretty smart folks.

The Blue Moon family has made me the offer of a free trailer!  What to do, what to do?

Ask them to provide more clearance between the truck and the neck-over.   Looks like you'll have to stay on road... otherwise suffer a crushed bedwall.

Unless there is some hidden extendable neck that automatically reacts to off-roading...

Where is the 60" plasma TV? Also mine had an indoor spa?  I hope they are not getting cheap after all these years of building trailers?

Wifey and I  have decided to keep the used trailer that we picked up in Denver a couple of weeks ago.  Hope that it doesn't turn to rust before our very eyes   or crush the cab and rear window  of our diesel monster.  We have put a revolving floor in this trailer so that the horses can ride however they want: forwards, backwards, sideways, whatever. (We are working on a way for them to watch movies and eat snacks too, but that is for another time)

We seriously considered the Blue Moon trailer. After a very difficult weighing of the offer we decided that there isn't a "perfect" trailer after all.  Despite lots of well intentioned advice (sometimes we have hard time separating advice from decrees) there was very little that was really definitively good or bad about the trailers we were considering.  It turned out that what was right for someone else wasn't always right for us and what we do with our horses and trailer.  We also found that if we do our routine maintenance and drive sensibly, our truck and trailer work just fine and our horses are safe and happy. Most of the horror stories that people liked to share are very uncommon . . . but bad news travels farthest and fastest.  When one nut-case (is that a hyphenated word?)  puts his two horses in a broken down trailer with no brakes and tries to pull it with a LUV pickup, things do go wrong but that isn't the norm and it doesn't happen very often. Even so, eveyone talks about it   for years and the story makes it around the world twenty two times like it just happened yesterday to the people next door.

If the Blue Moon trailer interested you, I highly recommend that you give those folks a call or meet them at the Irish Draft Pony Conference in Flat River Nevada next year.  Who knows . . . they may offer you one at the fair price of free.

Thanks to all of you for your comments.  We definately hope you enjoyed the ride along with us.  Thanks to DaveM for having such a great website where we can have a little fun and learn a lot!!!

Don't fall off the ramp! 

roll on

Good luck Rollin.

Let us know how this trailer works out in the "long haul." Hope to hear more from you and Wifey and your horsey adventures.

Thanks for the laughs. 

I am planning another trip to the Irish Draft Pony Conference in Flat River in March. I am really concerned about several things as  I plan for this trip:

1. Is there a route that will get me there without pulling my gooseneck trailer over a railroad crossing?
2. How much will my new truck pull?
3. Can I turn my truck & trailer without breaking out the rear window of the truck?  (it is a short bed)

I'll keep you informed about my preparation for the trip.

Roll on