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Re: [RC] LQ trailes and the decline of point-to point rides - Teresa Van Hove

yes, our stock trailer when I was growing up was a gooseneck, and I could trive it as a minor. But it was/is 20 ft long, not 30+ and it was a stock trailer (we didn't worry if we had to go tru a dip that bottomed it out.) and it sure aint worth more than a modest (but still nice) house in small town nebraska, kansas, oklahoma .... I was thinking of upgrading my p/u this fall, but when I jumped into it to take it for servicing and cringed at all the droppings on it I thought -nah -you dont want to have an $$$$ pick-up when you dont have an oversized garage to park it in, and same thing with a LQ trailer. I dont know 'bout everyone else but I track mud and dirt into my p/u camper and spill elytes as I'm mixing them on the counter surfaces ... at rides I wouldn't want one of the fancy LQ trailers they sell to "show people? " with cherry cupboards, fully carpeted and the like, I prefer my old beater that I dont mind 'using hard', though of course I wouldn't mind having more space.

Teresa (the horses get some spoiling but the p/u sure doesnt in my world)


heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Ahhh,  Finally we've got the real reason that point-to-point
multidays declined.  Folks started getting LQ trailers instead of
tenting or buying old, relatively check p/u campers and stock-sized  b/p
trailers that any competent ranch kid could pull and didn't cost  as
much as a modest house.


Have you checked out what the ranch kids are pulling these days?  Most of
the ranch kids up here can finesse a gooseneck full of calvy cows in and
out of spots that would give most drivers the vapors, and never stop them
chewing their cuds.

Guess that must be one of the regional differences--we still can find
folks up here in the NW who drive stuff like that and who want to come
along for the week, make some $$ driving, and see how the nutty suburban
endurance folks live so they can go home and giggle about us for the rest
of the year.  <vbg>  And most of 'em know which end of the horse the feed
goes in, too, in case a few folks have spare horses along for the ride.

We always seemed to be able to come up with a driving crew up here that
would fill up a Suburban for transporting if we needed more rigs driven
than we had drivers.  (And we hated to get TOO many, since it cut into the
$$ that they could make.)

Heidi




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[RC] LQ trailes and the decline of point-to point rides, Teresa Van Hove
Re: [RC] LQ trailes and the decline of point-to point rides, heidi