horse etiquette

Gee Ray · Dec 31, 2021

Your $100,000 car smells because you drive over road apples. Damn I would buy a horse to ride up and down the lane if I was your neighbor. People that think they are special because they have money make me sick.

Have your chauffeur wash the car more often.

Or build a path next to the road for the horses. Otherwise the people have as much right to use the road as you do.

bunyip · Dec 31, 2021

A barkers egg on the bottom of your boot is way more offensive than a pony pellet, especially in the confines of a car.

Steppenwolfe · Dec 31, 2021

In my youngster days I worked on every kind of farm there is; I would rather shovel horse pooh all day, than an hour of sheep, pig, or cow pooh...

ponytug · Dec 31, 2021

Steppenwolfe said:
In my youngster days I worked on every kind of farm there is; I would rather shovel horse pooh all day, than an hour of sheep, pig, or cow pooh...

Amen.

3 Horse Ranch · Dec 31, 2021

Tomtint said:
There is a neighbor..Not part of the 5 or 6 that own the road..Who has a stable where they teach people to ride. They use our road to access other trails. Could be 1 horse..could be 10.. depends on the day. My specific issue with it... We have a few vehicles in the 100K mark and horse crap is not a perfume I like to spray up under the wheel wells.

Put a sign out by the entrance to the road PRIVATE ROAD FOR THE USE OF THE RESIDENTS ONLY---ALL OTHER USES PROHIBITED. Unless there is some binding use agreement with them. But first, I'd go talk with them and explain the problem and possible solutions. All else fails, install a gate on the road. It should be quite manageable in a community that can afford several 100k cars.

oosik · Dec 31, 2021

My mile long driveway is open on the north side - all the way from the outer gate to my inner gate. The neighbor to the north is a cattle rancher. I gave up dodging poo piles looooong ago.

I have mud flaps on the Taco Wagon. So most of the poo I hit will coat the wheel wells. Even the really slimy, gooey stuff.

I hose out the wheel wells when I hose down the TW in the summer.

Hey - you should be out on one of our paved county roads when a rancher is moving 500 to 1000 head of cattle from one grazing area to another. They use the county roads - it's perfectly legal. You approach the herd - pull over - turn it off - wait. They pass - you start up and move on. There will be acres of cow poo to either attempt to dodge or just drive thru.

You drive thru the herd - like many city folks do - be prepared for dents and gouge marks.

Life goes on ...........

ponytug · Dec 31, 2021

Get a manure fork, clean your driveway, and move on. Not worth getting wound up about in my book. Life is way too short. Enjoy seeing the driveway up close. Be the person the neighborhood bemoans the loss of, not the one they celebrate losing.

When we are out riding, or hiking, we pick up litter whenever we see it, and a ride is typically 15-25miles. It is just the right thing to do for your fellow beings. No point at getting annoyed at how the litter came to be there. It is there, and we eliminate it. We have come to know a mountain biker and a gaggle of walkers who do the same thing. The walkers asked if they could use our trash and recycling bins, and we said "of course!". The guys are a really sweet bunch; every Saturday they walk five plus miles and 2000' vertical feet up to the park nearby, (a stiff hike by any metric), hike another 5-10 miles in the park and go home, laughing and chatting the whole time. We have had their kids over to meet our cows. Every time I see them on the road, it reminds me to be grateful for everything that I am so lucky to have in my life; great family and friends, clean water and air, a roof over my head, indoor plumbing, heating, enough to eat, and something to do.

Life is really good.

All the best,

Peter

TMGT · Dec 31, 2021

Diggin It said:
Far higher up on my list is board spamming with a 'sent by my whatever .... ' thingey.

Tell me how to get rid of it and I'd be happy too, but its not high on my list of things that matter.......

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Tomtint · Dec 31, 2021

Gee Ray said:
Your $100,000 car smells because you drive over road apples. Damn I would buy a horse to ride up and down the lane if I was your neighbor. People that think they are special because they have money make me sick.

Have your chauffeur wash the car more often.

Or build a path next to the road for the horses. Otherwise the people have as much right to use the road as you do.

Well your type of arrogance ..or ignorance is exactly the type of neighbor I would not want. Had you taken the time to read a few earlier responses to questions that were asked... I actually own the road with other neighbors. The people riding down the road do not. So they actually do not have the right to ride a **** dropping horse on the road. I had said earlier that I have just felt with it over the years until it has now become a daily issue. The fact that we have vehicles that are relatively lends to the aggravation. If we were driving farm trucks..not a big deal..but we don't. So in the meanwhile