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Re: Towing - difference between camper/caravan and horse floats
« Reply #25 on: September 10, 2016, 12:27:49 AM »
cattle and horses are travelled differently. The sheer numbers allow cattle to brace against each other thus allowing for faster travel ie bends etc. When towing a float, horses can only brace sideways. Drivers must allow for slower stopping, take off and corners.
Also, I see most men with horse trucks or goosenecks.
I tow the camper, horse float and drive the truck. I also drive the truck towing the van, what % do I fit in??
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So Horses don't have barriers between them in floats and some padding  and along the outside wall as well.
All the ones I've seen do, even the Mounted Boys from South Melbourne behind the Arts Centre.
Even the Thoroughbred Trucks that run around between Ballarat, Flemington, Mornington, Caulfield etc. don't get driven like other people who operate their own floats.
And the Thoroughbred Transport trucks stack 'em in sideways across the truck.
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Re: Towing - difference between camper/caravan and horse floats
« Reply #26 on: September 10, 2016, 01:30:44 AM »
So judging by the responses 95% of blokes don't let the wife drive the rig...

I let mine drive all day and i never say a word about her driving.

but she makes me to reverse into the spot and then complains I don't listen to her directions. WTF

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Re: Towing - difference between camper/caravan and horse floats
« Reply #27 on: September 10, 2016, 01:32:11 AM »
?? I don't get your point, heaps are loaded sideways or at angles. There are even some who travel horses loaded back to front.
They still are not jammed in to support each other like cattle except for dogger  trucks. I also know plenty of horse people who use ropes, rubber or no dividers at all in their trucks or goosenecks due to weight,  costs and personal beliefs. This includes Mark buttsworth arguably the best campdrafter in Australia.  He travels thousands of miles all over Australia in a huge semi with a gooseneck with spring loaded rope dividers.
Trying to find the time to use our camper . . .