"rbowman" wrote in message
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On 10/02/2018 04:55 PM, Rod Speed wrote:


"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:27:05 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
news On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 05:45:16 +0100, rbowman
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On 09/09/2018 01:08 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
I really ****ed off a horserider once. I was driving a very old
Range
Rover automatic which had a conversion to LPG. It very often
misfired,
made loud bangs, and changed gear without warning. I managed to
cause a
small explosion and a loud revving of the engine just as I passed a
horserider coming the other way along a narrow country road. The
horse
**** itself, and so did the rider.

I did better than that... I was coming down a narrow road that went
past
a dude ranch on my Harley. Coming the other was was a herd of dudes
on
their docile refugees from a canning factory led by a genuine wild
west
cowboy. ****head's horse had a nervous breakdown while the guests'
nags
barely roused from their stupor.

it doesn't take much to set them off. I've worked with horses
enough to
know most of them are a neurotic bundle of nerves. If the horse can't
handle public roads, trailer it to a nice quiet horse trail
someplace.

Indeed. Horses on roads were fine, before the invention of the
motor car.

They weren't actually, lots got killed by them bolting etc.

They're not the brightest of animals.

They're actually quite a bit smarter than most, just a
neurotic bundle of nerves. They basically evolved that
way because they are prey to stuff like lions and tigers etc.

At one time I worked on a Forest Service ranch that was the winter home
for about 250 head of saddle and pack stock, both mules and horses. I
preferred the mules. The only problem is a mule is smart enough to look
out for number one while you can coax a horse into doing stupid things.
otoh, most mules aren't afraid of a length of rope laying in the trail,
running water, tree branches blowing in the wind, llamas, bicycles, elk,
deer, shadows, or whatever else will trigger a horse.

I've just been to this one again and was again reminded that quite a few
of them were kept where they were wanted to be when not actually doing
anything by just a line of white plastic cord keeping them from wandering
around.

Same with the bullocks, fascinating watching them being run up the dirt
loading ramp into the B double at the end of Sunday with just another
line of that white cord between the yards, what you lot call the corral
and up the side of the loading ramp.

http://barellanclydesdales.com.au/

They had a drone over the grand parade, but they did last year too
and that footage didn't make it on to their web site last year. Must
be a different operation that was running it.

The 25 Clydesdale team pulling the massive great wool wagon that
you can see on the web site was pretty spectacular. Took a good
hour to get them all harnessed up and connected to before dragging
it around the main parade ground. They had the bullock team pulling
another. Last year it was the biggest bullock team seen in the entire
world this century which doesn't really prove all that much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9u7vD6yq8

I've packed with llamas and they are equally neurotic. More cowboy humor:

Q. How do you pack a llama?
A. Quarter them, just like an elk.