Trailer Loading

After I returned from trail riding I decided to see if I could get Duke to load in the trailer.  I had the trailer backed up into a "dip" so it didn't sit very high off of the ground.  I didn't expect him to be bad, he has a pretty good temperament, but I never expected him to load this well!

Sorry for all of the clucking and poor camera skills.  I'm not the best at running a camera and a horse at the same time.

I'm hoping to start hauling Duke off property a little bit so here in the next few weeks he's going to have to learn how to get in with the trailer on level ground.  This means he's going to have a pretty high step up and down!

This is how trailer loading is done!

I lowered Max’s price so now we are getting a flood of new inquiries on him. Some of the questions we are asked are pretty silly but I try to be polite and answer them to the best of my knowledge.

One of the main questions is how does he load. We were heading to MIL’s last night so I decided to video him loading.

How do you think he loads?



I had to laugh. I walked Max up to the trailer (but not close to it) and DH asked me how to run the camera. I walked over to show him and as I did Max loaded himself in the trailer. I told the gal he was a self loader. LOL We had to unload him to get video of him loading.

And unloading?



Here he lounging (not LFR but LF whatever reason most people lounge for LOL)

I figured most people won’t do LFR so why show it? If they know it he’ll do it but most of the people I’ve met don’t know it and it confuses them.



And here he is taking the bit.



Sorry but I’m not going to post riding video. I know my riding sucks already & Max didn’t want to give to the bit (it’s been a while since I’ve ridden him).

Tonight we are loading up to go to Elk Rock State Park to ride for the weekend. If things go well someone might come look at him on Monday either at the park or at MIL’s. She liked what she saw on the video (which I thought was horrible) so hopefully if she comes she’ll like him enough to take him home.