Hey guys, after an incident today, I’m curious to know what has happened with you if you have had an accident with a horse truck or float.
I saw one today. We took our horses out to work them today (I got bucked off, argh! lol) and there was another girl there with a tandem float and 2 horses. She left about 5 minutes before us. Got onto the highway and the traffic was backed up. When we got closer we saw it was her.
We of course stopped to help. The divider had broken when one of the horses fell on it and broke the door. We couldn’t get him out because the chain was too tight. Luckily, a tradie was there and we borrowed an angle grinder and cut the chain. There was a business man in a suit stopping the traffic while we cut the horse out.
The horse is pretty cut up, was tangled in the wreckage of the divider but he kicked himself free. If he was a stallion before that, he wouldn’t be now. He essentially gelded himself all over again. Luckily, the highway had a really wide shoulder. The other horse was scratched up too but he was able to stay on the float, he was so calm! He just stuck his nose out the door to look at everyone, he wasn’t spooked at all.
There was a lot of people already there when we pulled up, but none were horse people and they were to scared to go near a bleeding, kicking, screaming horse. The poor girl who owned them was like "thank god" when she saw us. It took 3 of us to get the horse under control after he got free.
So yeah, the horse will be ok. No serious injuries. But has something similar happened to you?
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