> We are leaving in about an hour with trailer in tow. We'll be picking up my new horse, Ymur, from quarantine on Monday. He's arriving in the US today. I have a big model horse show this weekend to attend, which just happens to be much closer to quarantine, which is why we are taking along the trailer.
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> Prayers for safe travel would be greatly appreciated. It's been a couple years since I've pulled a trailer, and I've never pulled further than about 1 hour... quarantine is about 6 hours away.
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> *EXCITED*
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> -Leen

You are probably on the road by now. This important message will likely get to you too late to help, but. . . .

Pulling a trailer with a motor vehicle is about like pulling a wagon with a horse. Just go where you want to go and it will follow. Be extra careful going down hill and don't do any hard braking. Horses and wagons have their own independent braking systems. When the horse starts putting on the brakes, the guy on the wagon does too. It works very well. But using a motor vehicle, the guy up front has to do both. It just take a little practice.

Horse trailers are heavy. A horse trailer the size of my box trailer, (that I use for scooters) will weigh twice as much. Horses often weigh a ton compared to about 300 pounds for a scooter.

You can save a lot of gas by backing off the throttle just before you crest a hill. Then you regain your speed using gravity instead of gas. Try to lose about 5 mph at the top of the hill, then ease back into the throttle after you start down the other side.

My daughter-in-law has two horses that were rescued from somewhere in North Dakota. They were thinning the wild herds which had become way too big for the range to support. She got a mare and her colt.

I think they were very lucky horses. Instead of living wild in a harsh climate the are now on ten acres of grass with a warm barn and plenty of hay. There is a pond and a much milder climate. They don't have to work at all, unless you call looking pretty work.

PPR*
Howard
*Please Pardon Ramble