[drivingpairs] Re: Pair Rein Adjustments 102



Hardy:  Thank you, thank you, I am on my 1st pair and I have been reluctant 
to
"Adjust"!   Of course I have a lazy one, so far I've just used the whip to 
encourage him.  He has a year of driving single.  I will now put your advise 
to use.  Thanks for taking the time to explain this, it's very appreciated.

Peach York
Oroville, Calif.
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From: <Hzlax@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:31 AM
Subject: [drivingpairs] Pair Rein Adjustments 102


>
>
>
> I hope you had time to read and think through my post from yesterday - 
> Pair
> rein Adjustment 101.
> Now let me add one more item as that is often misunderstood, even by VERY
> experienecd pair drivers (and was written up incorrectly once again in the
> reprint of an old article on Coupling Reins - page 89 of the March 2006 
> Carriage
> Journal - I would have written a letter to the editor, but only read it 
> recently,
> and think it's now too long after that issue for that). Some people think
> that by shortening or lengthening just one of the reins at the bit, they 
> can
> influence only one horse and not the other. That's wrong. Think about it! 
> If you
> shorten a rein on one horse, it ALWAYS has the same effect as lengthening 
> the
> rein on the other horse, regardless WHERE you do the change. If one is 
> shorter
> it also means the other is longer, no matter if you shortened it at the
> coupling rein buckle, or at the bit. Just the same as when a tailor would 
> shorten
> one of my pants legs by an inch. Then one would look shorter and the other 
> would
> look longer, and it doesn't matter, if he took out the inch at the bottom, 
> or
> at the knee, and unless I would wear my pants always at the very same spot
> around my waist, you couldn't tell if one pants leg would have been 
> shortened or
> the other would have been lengthened. The same is the case with our pair
> reins since the ends which we hold in our hands are flexible, and are not 
> rivetted
> to the dash board.
>
> So since shortening one ALWAYS has the same effect as lengthening the 
> other,
> that means, you can NEVER just influence ONE horse by shortening or
> lengthening the reins at the bit or at the coupling rein buckle, you 
> ALWAYS influence
> BOTH horses!
>
> And that is the reason we change rein length ONLY at the coupling rein
> buckle, and not at the bit, as to most of us it is more clear that we 
> influence BOTH
> when we change at the coupling rein buckle, and we easily forget this
> principle when we start changing rein length at the bit.
>
> And THAT is the reason that you should NOT lengthen or shorten just ONE 
> rein,
> but always do it on BOTH reins, as when one horse is crooked, and you try 
> to
> change that by changing just one rein on him, you are now punishing the 
> other
> horse by also pulling his bit crooked into his mouth.
>
> Oh, boy, I can only hope that I could explain this properly this time, as
> quite often I have failed when I tried to explain it to some very 
> experienecd
> pair drivers, who wouldn't believe me and are still changing rein lengths 
> at the
> bit and are still thinking that with doing so they can influence only one
> horse and not the other. The fault when I couldn't convince them, always 
> was not
> in the above truth, but always only in my failure to explain it properly.
> Hardy
>
>
>
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