Re: picket lines

[Chris Paus <paus@micoks.net>]

Using chains to keep horses tethered sure raises red flags to me!

chris paus & star

At 11:07 AM 1/25/98 -0800, Duncan Fletcher wrote:
>The secret to using a chain is to use a fairly heavy one. The weight of the
>chain causes it to slide off the hoof should a loop form - a light chain is
>likely to remain looped around the foot. It still isn't fail proof, and from
>the stories posted on this list, nothing is.
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>Duncan Fletcher
>dfletche@gte.net
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Frank W. Vans Evers <vans@cyberspy.com>
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>>If yu have room for a picket line, what about a light chain and a ground
>>stake? A chain won't bunch up around a horses feet, a 10 foot chain give
>>a 20' circle, what do you think?
>>
>>/s/ Frank (seffner Florida)
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>>Ann Perry wrote:
>>>
>>> Just read Lucy's bad picket line story and thought I'd come out of lurk
>mode
>>> for a minute. I've never used a picket line, but have had problems with
>>> tying to the trailer--line gets caught under fender, horse panics and
>pulls
>>> back, breaking snap, making people sleeping in camper think it's an
>>> earthquake, etc. I'd get a Horsin' Around corral if I could
>justify/afford
>>> it; but until then what about a picket line? They do look like an
>accident
>>> waiting to happen. All that rope AND a horse! However, last year in
>>> Endurance News there was info on a picket system you can buy that uses
>>> pulleys and weights to keep the slack out of the halter rope. Looked like
>it
>>> might help. I have the info (somewhere) and will try to find it if
>anyone's
>>> interested. I most likely will try it myself this summer. Has anybody
>seen
>>> or used it?
>>>
>>> Back to lurk mode,
>>> Ann
>>
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>>Frank W. Vans Evers
>>mailto:vans@cyberspy.com or mailto:vans@ccfs.centcom.mil
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