[drivingpairs] Re: unicorn
- From: marged harris <dixzchx@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:53:27 -0800 (PST)
First...thanks Sterling for correcting me on the appropriate bar....you're
right. And please realize I was responding to a sort of can I put this
together and see if it works scenario, not should I use the jerry rig for lots
of unicorn driving. Sort of like you can piece together a tandem, but once you
really get into it, you need to get the proper equipment sorted out.
If a tendem leader pulls, he is pulling on the harness of the wheeler and the
britching on the wheeler will tighten and the wheeler will often react by
pulling backwards. The hitch isn't really designed to add another pulling
horse for power, it was set up to allow 1 horse to be out of use and still get
him someplace, or to show off how well you can drive and train horses. (Do you
know that a law prohibiting the rental of a tandem to university students is
still on the books in Oxford, England?) Unicorns were essentially what you got
if, with a four in hand, you lost a horse. You still have the heavy carriage,
and guests or luggage or mail or what ever, to get somewhere and you need 3
horses pulling to do that job. MGH
Peter & Rachel Eldred <preldred@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Can you explain why a unicorn leader would need to pull more than a tandem
leader?
Rachel in BC
(glad to have my computer back after several days without power due to
unbelievable wind and rain)
But your leader needs to be able to pull every now and again unlike the
tandem leader who really doesn't do more than tighten the traces. Marged
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