Can anyone relate their experiences having two people handle the reins
for one horse each in a pair?
Why? Imagine two single horse drivers, with 2 single horses, who get
along fine ground driving as a pair, but until one of the whips can
really master handling both sets of reins at once, and since there are
two people along for safety anyway, they want to consider "synchronized
driving" for a bit, feeling safer that their fingers won't die of
fatigue partway through the drive, or pull the wrong rein / drop a rein
when a pickup truck full of teenagers whizzes by, or a garbage can blows
in front of them, at least for straight down the road and very slow
turns ... any pointers they should keep in mind? Cool ways to
synchronize commands, like elbowing/kicking/stepping on each other :)?
Or simply screaming gee and haw at the appropriate moment :) ? It would
certainly be combined with moments of one whip driving with all 4 reins
along quiet stretches, but it would be such a relief to be able to hand
one set of reins back over when getting a cramp ....
