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I have pretty much given up on horses for mountain riding--I'm a confirmed mule man these days. However, a friend who grew up riding horses and mules in rough mountain country, ranching and chasing lions, has had two bad mule wrecks in the last two years. Both required helicopter extractions and life-flight runs to University Medical Center in Tucson. Fortunately, she is a very resilient 50-something-year-old woman. Unfortunately, I have reached the age at which physical resilience is just a pleasant memory.
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Some days it takes most of the day for me to do practically nothing...
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Wrong answer. The safest place is on top. I've been "bailed"...kinda like I was water in the bucket.
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My question is WHY? Thank you.
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If my memory serves me I have come off three mules when it was their idea,once when it was mine.The once I ended up in a lot worse condition than the previous 3. However staying on, I probably would not have survived at all.
I don't wear a helmet as I have never seen one that would keep my ears warm at 5 degrees F
I don't ride green mules anymore and don't ride anyone's mule when they ask me to figure out what is wrong with me.I ride short, old mules now.
If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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Wrong answer. The safest place is on top. Was going over regardless so tried to save myself. Always try to stay in the seat, my horses have been steady.
Never take life to seriously, after all ,no one gets out of it alive.
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I didn't say the seat was the safest, I said on top is the safest.......
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Campfire Ranger
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My question is WHY? Those are for trailered horses so if they get all wound up inside the trailer they don't bust their heads open. Sort of like the helmets for green riders. I've seen the commercial horse-haulers requiring that horses wear them, just for added liability protection. Ed
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My question is WHY? Those are for trailered horses so if they get all wound up inside the trailer they don't bust their heads open. Sort of like the helmets for green riders. I've seen the commercial horse-haulers requiring that horses wear them, just for added liability protection. Ed I think they put those on rental horses so the rider doesn't beat them to death.
βIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.β β George Orwell
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Wind in my hair, Sun on my face, I gazed at the wide open spaces, And I was at home.
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I hate horses as much as I do dogs and if a hunt required one, I'd not hunt.
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I used to ride a lot as a kid, and was way too tough to wear a helmet, even when some others started wearing them, including my sister. I've been thrown more than a few times, including into gates and fences and onto rocky ground. I've baled out too, and been stepped on. I got put headfirst into a log once, and was out cold. Another time I went in headfirst and hit hard enough that the hair at the front of my head fell out (it grew back though). In retrospect and with a bit more age if not wisdom, I think I should have worn a helmet, and I would now.
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Wife and I don't wear them but our 3 year old will be wearing one for a while
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Great thread, thanks to all who took the time to find the humorous pix!
My horse back riding was limited, even though I did own a horse briefly. However, when I was about 30 yrs. old I did a good bit of coon hunting. Went with a friend of mine who liked to hunt on mules. He borrowed one for me to ride. The dogs struck and then treed on the back side of a large, fresh cutover. They had piled the windrows up and when we came to the 1st one, my friend's mule went right on over the windrow. But my borrowed mule balked at it. I kept giving him a little encouragement but apparently gave him a little too much incentive and he sent me off between his ears into the windrow. It only hurt my pride a little bit as we got a good laugh out of it.
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Great thread, thanks to all who took the time to find the humorous pix!
My horse back riding was limited, even though I did own a horse briefly. However, when I was about 30 yrs. old I did a good bit of coon hunting. Went with a friend of mine who liked to hunt on mules. He borrowed one for me to ride. The dogs struck and then treed on the back side of a large, fresh cutover. They had piled the windrows up and when we came to the 1st one, my friend's mule went right on over the windrow. But my borrowed mule balked at it. I kept giving him a little encouragement but apparently gave him a little too much incentive and he sent me off between his ears into the windrow. It only hurt my pride a little bit as we got a good laugh out of it.
He wanted you to go first to see if it was safe.Mules are like that
If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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That right there is funny! I donβt care who ya are! LOL!
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The only mule Iβll ride these days is named Kawasaki, and only if Iβm driving it. Happy Trails
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I thought it funny too, not really politically correct, but I donβt give a cshit about that.
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These are now horse rated. Reasonably priced too.
I am MAGA.
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