I almost broke the law...alot

[rback33]

Also consider that the horse trailer is probably the last thing to get worked on around a farm. And, often as not sets outside in the weather.

On a positive note, you rarely see people pulling their horses at an excessive rate of speed.

You'd be surprised....show in March we went o I got passed by an 8 horse on a 1 ton chevy (older mind you, '88-97) I had cruise set on 70 (speed limit) and I bet she went by at 80 (I now know who it was.. found at this weekend) This was in the flint hills of Kansas and I was sucking back to 60-65 on some of them and she was STILL flying away... I looked at my wife and say.. she can't have but one or two horses in there... turns out she get there about 30 seconds ahead of us. ( I know the fast way through Topeka to the show grounds) and she unloads six horses... I dunno what she has done to the old 454, but I am both impressed and scared... there is NO reason to pull horses 80 MPH.. if the trailer is empty however .....

One small counter point.. OUR farm is strictly boarding, training, lessons... and so on and it's a VERY small scale.. I am VERY **** about wheel bearings, tire pressures and the like... howver I know one woman (and her husband was worse) who thought she could turn a low tire in on her trailer warranty, no clue about maintenace... didn't think it should be low when it was 25 degrees outside.. I laughed out loud.. told her to air it up. (I had to do it for her)... I guess my point is that on the average the truth is likely to be in the middle.. My biggest pet peeve is people who pull trailers and the lights don't work... I am not very mechanical, but even I can fix those and 12v test lights are CHEAP I have 3... so I always know here 1 is

 

[Jarrett]

....My biggest pet peeve is people who pull trailers and the lights don't work... I am not very mechanical, but even I can fix those and 12v test lights are CHEAP I have 3... so I always know here 1 is

Same here. I cannot stand when someone doesn't keep their lights working properly. I think the biggest problem is the ground wire on th etrailer isn't connected to anything. They think just grounding the trailer through the hitch connection is enough. Every trailer we've ever had (except 1) came that way from the factory and once I connected the ground wire to the frame we never had another problem (except blown bulbs).