A plea to tractor drivers.

Longlowdog

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
Just wait till you get the local 'wide load' on her horse with earphones in walking down the centre of a single track road for a mile past half a dozen passing places. That's enough to get my horsey wife leaning out the truck window giving it laldy.
 

Sussex Martin

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Location
Burham Kent
I had a very traffic proof horse that was hit by a motorbike going too fast and overtaking when he shouldn’t have. He now isn’t as good in traffic as he used to be as you can probably imagine. Now how do I get his confidence in traffic back if we never take him on the road? There is only so much we can do training him in the paddock.
The attitude of some on this thread beggars belief when farming could do with all the friends it can get.
 

Dolomite

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Mixed Farmer
Location
South Yorkshire
I had a very traffic proof horse that was hit by a motorbike going too fast and overtaking when he shouldn’t have. He now isn’t as good in traffic as he used to be as you can probably imagine. Now how do I get his confidence in traffic back if we never take him on the road? There is only so much we can do training him in the paddock.
The attitude of some on this thread beggars belief when farming could do with all the friends it can get.

But surely isn’t that wreckless endangerment. As you know it not to be fit as it’s nervous to be on the road. Hence forth putting a rider, road users and possible pedestrians in harms way should it bolt etc. I see your point as to get it experience and settle down. But your idea is utter disregard for anyone else’s safety but the horses progress and in that situation and animal shouldn’t be on the public roads.
 

TheTallGuy

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Location
Cambridgeshire
I had a very traffic proof horse that was hit by a motorbike going too fast and overtaking when he shouldn’t have. He now isn’t as good in traffic as he used to be as you can probably imagine. Now how do I get his confidence in traffic back if we never take him on the road? There is only so much we can do training him in the paddock.
The attitude of some on this thread beggars belief when farming could do with all the friends it can get.
There's a difference between taking a nervous horse along some quiet country lanes & taking it on busy/fast roads - recently I came across a horse that could barely be controlled on an empty road; the rider proceeded to take the horse onto a busy road with lots of hgvs going up and down with the inevitable result that the horse went into meltdown - yet according to the rider it was the fault of the hgv drivers for not being considerate!
 

Sussex Martin

Member
Location
Burham Kent
But surely isn’t that wreckless endangerment. As you know it not to be fit as it’s nervous to be on the road. Hence forth putting a rider, road users and possible pedestrians in harms way should it bolt etc. I see your point as to get it experience and settle down. But your idea is utter disregard for anyone else’s safety but the horses progress and in that situation and animal shouldn’t be on the public roads.
I said he ‘isn’t as good as he used to be’ he is ok but more nervous than he used to be, and you must constantly reassure him.
If I didn’t think he was safe in traffic I wouldn’t allow my wife to take him out.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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