[drivingpairs] Re: Two whips for a pair?
- From: gedeckt@xxxxxxxx
- To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:23:54 -0500 (EST)
I have to tell you that I have a friend who tried to drive his pair of
Haflingers with two sets of reains...confused the HELL out of the horses. DO
not try this..it is DANGEROUS!
-----Original Message-----
>From: Anya Getman <agetman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Feb 17, 2006 9:19 PM
>To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [drivingpairs] Two whips for a pair?
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>Can anyone relate their experiences having two people handle the reins
>for one horse each in a pair?
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>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 ....
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