Re: PA bog stories, bad and good endings

["A. Felker" <santafe@eudoramail.com>]

I know this isn't horse related but I have had some fun with bogs and silt here in PA also.  My silt experience was a time I was on a three wheeler and tried to go across a large "puddle".  My three wheeler had huge tires and when I got in the middle of the puddle it began to float and stopped going forward.  I decided to hop off and push the rest of the way across.  Well, I went down until the water was up to my chest.  My leg was in thick muck at the bottom past my knee.  The only thing holding me up was that I still had a tight grip on the three wheeler.  Luckily I was able to pull myself back on until someone could pull me from the puddle.  My other experience was a time we were four wheeling in the woods with a few trucks.  My friend had a truck with 40" tall tires and was leading us through.  He came upon a "small stream of water".  It looked no deeper than a few inches and no more than two feet across.  We told him to go on across.  Well, the truck imediatly sank until the rear bumper caught the dry solid ground on the side and stopped him from going deeper.  This "small stream" had now engulfed 40" of tire completely under the muck.  We did manage to hand winch him out at about 4 in the morning.  I guess you just never can tell what you are "getting into".
A. Felker in PA. 
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On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:41:03    Brickson wrote:
>Use caution if you swim your horse in a lake, too.  Last year in central PA
>one big rider on a big horse took it down into the water at a reservoir to
>get a drink and wave at some boaters.  His horse started to sink, but he
>didn't get off.  The horse struggled but never made it out.  There was silt
>build-up at that spot from a run-off.  The boaters couldn't get there in
>time to help, and the riders' buddies and the rider almost got stuck fast,
>too.  This story was from Jeff's buddy at work (he was in the boat).  I
>guess look for the run-off ditch areas that run to with lakes from fields
>that are plowed often or where there is other erosion.  Another clue is to
>look for stones at the bottom in clear water, which might indicate lack of
>silt build-up, or don't go in.
>
>A couple years ago at Lake Nockamixon in a remote area when the snow was
>mostly melted, there was a large culvert that gave way under a horse.   The
>horse got stuck fast in the muck either at the spot or near it after a
>struggle.  The rider and her buddy couldn't get the horse out, and it tired.
>They called their husbands, and 6 of their big friends to come out in jeeps
>with ropes to help get it out.  They did, after quite a bit of work.  The
>horse was too exhausted to help by then.  They said "if it hadn't been a
>scrawny little Arab" they wouldn't have been able to do it without special
>equipment.  The horse went home wobbly and covered with clayey mud, even in
>its ears, and recovered completely after a few days of warm water, mashes,
>and catering.
>bb
>Jeff and Bridget Brickson
>
>


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