Posted 2007-06-24 10:13 PM (#62771) Subject: The most affordable horse trailer in the world.
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Posts: 2828 Location: Southern New Mexico
I was minding my own business Sunday, going to Six Flags, when something caught my eye. Or my husbands eye.... He demanded to know why he had to spend thousands to buy me a trailer when I could use this set up.
Posted 2007-06-25 8:28 AM (#62782 - in reply to #62771) Subject: RE: The most affordable horse trailer in the world.
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Most affordable is to borrow your buddies......
Seriously though when I was a kid everyone used a pickup to haul horses. Very few had trailers around here. If they did have a trailer a two horse rust bucket was fancy.
Posted 2007-06-25 9:15 AM (#62786 - in reply to #62771) Subject: RE: The most affordable horse trailer in the world.
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Posts: 534 Location: Zionsville, Indiana
Us oldtimers have all done this. The only thing you didn't see was the three bales of hay/straw that we stacked behind the truck so the horses could jump in. Their racks are a lot nicer than ours ever were.
Posted 2007-06-25 11:38 AM (#62803 - in reply to #62771) Subject: RE: The most affordable horse trailer in the world.
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Posts: 1205 Location: Arkansas
M first show horse traveled all over like this, shows, parades, queen contests.......and most everybody else did the same thing... My dad picked a stallion up at the King Ranch for one of the Rockerfellas, same kind of rig from WinRock farms!
Posted 2007-06-25 5:14 PM (#62832 - in reply to #62771) Subject: RE: The most affordable horse trailer in the world.
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Posts: 644 Location: Odenville, Alabama
We had some folks in 4H when I was a kid who had old wooden slats on the side and they'd haul 2 horses to the local shows already tacked up and ready to jump off. These scudders would jump on . . . and then jump off.
Posted 2007-06-26 10:11 AM (#62864 - in reply to #62771) Subject: RE: The most affordable horse trailer in the world.
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Posts: 167 Location: Monroe, WA
Yep, I remember when EVERYBODY hauled horses in stockracks..... and we felt like we were livin' in high cotton when we got a 16 ft stock trailer. The old man's 17 hand rope horse thought he'd died and gone to heaven.I rode a good little red dun gelding who you could NOT load into a trailer, but if you dropped the tailgate of the pickup he would jump right in - with or without side racks! He'd stand with his head over the cab like a big dog.Those were the good old days.....
Posted 2007-06-26 12:14 PM (#62874 - in reply to #62771) Subject: RE: The most affordable horse trailer in the world.
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Posts: 648 Location: Coconut Creek, FL
Back in the 60's. we used to haul our large pony in it when we were kids. Dad would back up to a ditch so it was level and Dandy would jump right in... He put up temporary sides and plywood on the floor. He only weighed about 650 lbs. We stayed local though...
Later on, I had a QH that I hauled in a friend's stock truck and he'd jump right in it, but would baulk at an enclosed trailer.
Posted 2007-06-26 3:30 PM (#62881 - in reply to #62864) Subject: RE: The most affordable horse trailer in the world.
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Posts: 238 Location: West Coast
Originally written by halfpint23 on 2007-06-26 8:11 AM
Yep, I remember when EVERYBODY hauled horses in stockracks..... and we felt like we were livin' in high cotton when we got a 16 ft stock trailer. The old man's 17 hand rope horse thought he'd died and gone to heaven.I rode a good little red dun gelding who you could NOT load into a trailer, but if you dropped the tailgate of the pickup he would jump right in - with or without side racks! He'd stand with his head over the cab like a big dog.Those were the good old days.....
LOL! We had a gelding like that too (he's 29 now), he was a ranch horse from Texas and we figured he must have been hauled in a stock rack. If you walked him near a pickup truck with the tailgate down, he'd want to jump up there.
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