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CAUTION HORSES

BarnyardEngineering

BarnyardEngineering

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Why do people put this on the backs of their horse trailers?

I was listening to a stand-up comic on XM radio last night and he did a few jokes about the subject, but it really got me to thinking.. What purpose does it really serve?
 
I would guess that it’s for there protection. Some of the people
on this world think of horses as the Breyer toys and “My little
Pony” from their youth. Horses are a living breathing animal
and can act and react on their own. I used to help a couple
show reindeer during the Christmas season and the citiots
have no concept of the goings on or power that animals have.
 
I always got a kick out the seeing the sides trailers and vans with SHOW HORSES and SHOW DOGS in huge letters. Seemed as if you should be extra careful not to hit "THAT"
trailer.
 
I would imagine after a while it will help the idiot that is tailgating you clue in that it no it is not starting to rain.
 
I know several who think horses are more important that
people. I know a young woman who wrote on fb that she saw
a car following a horse trailer too close and endangering the
horses in the trailer. So she took it on herself to pass the car
and get between the already too close car and the horse
trailer, guess it never crossed her mind that she just got even
more to closer to the horses, and the brake checked the other
car to teach it a lesson. She was convinced that endangering
the people was justified.
 

Last week there was an accident in our state where a horse trailer was involved in an accident and got tipped over. My wife said that Facebook was full of comments worrying about whether the horses were OK. Hardly anyone asked about the driver!
I think there might have been one or two horses that did die.
 
this made me think of the Baby on Board stickers. The baby in the hoodie always looked like a gangbanger or drug dealer to me. admittedly I haven't been around many gang members or drug dealers.
 
Once upon a time, other drivers might have been
aware that a trailer or truck carrying livestock or
horses, would drive differently. Slowing sooner and
avoiding braking hard , so not to toss the animals
off their feet. It was simply a heads up to other
drivers that the truck or trailer ahead may be driving
slower and more cautious because they were
hauling livestock.
 
Years ago I was driving between Port Royal and Beaufort, South Carolina.

There was a horse trailer in front, then a small convertible with the top down, and I was behind the convertible. A guy and gal were in the convertible. As we came up to a traffic light, the convertible pulled up right behind the horst trailer. Right then a mare in the back of the trailer humped her back and peed all over the front of the convertible. There was enough air flow to where it all hit dead center in the middle of the convertible's hood.

I would guess the convertible's driver learned a good lesson about following too close behind a horse trailer.
 
Beware of farmers revenge!

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After reading some replies, I am on the hunt for a bumper sticker for my Honda Civic .... it'll keep all the crazies away from me on the road !!!
 
Tech 7 1/4 horses must be like 2 cylinder Jd's only got half the engine never found out where the other half went. I always tell them Deere sold the other 2 cylinders to Oliver. Some get mad some just laugh.
 
Could be alerting anyone following that the driver values their horses more than people and they have a lawyer that thinks the same so if you don't want to be in a
nasty law suit don't hit this trailer.

I do know of some that have a lot of horses that sell for a lot of money.
 
As my dad says "they're nothing but hay processors"

I had to laugh the other day as I was going a bit over the speed limit and got passed by a woman weaving through traffic with a "baby on board" sign in the back window. I guess at that point I didn't see a point in having the sign.
 
Supposedly to keep idiots from you off and then slamming on
the brakes which puts not the person pulling the horse trailer
at risk but also the horse but in order to do that the idiot in the
car doing it would actually have to think about somone
besides themselves wouldn’t they?
 

Most of the horse trailers i see around here anymore are carrying 4 wheelers, not horses. And some kids can't figure out which end of the saddle is the front.
 
is it for drivers?? or someone approaching a parked trailer so as not to bother the horses (petting them ect) so the don't be bit or whatever??

that's the only logic to me.. but not to many others use logic. which is illogical. nuk nuk nuk

but if for drivers??? i could care less about your ponies as long as they don't mess up me or my vehicles. Driver is responsible for the load regardless of what it is.

i think my dad once told me it was so people wouldn't scare the horses. ??
 
(quoted from post at 09:11:23 10/05/20) Beware of farmers revenge!

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We just had an ag pilot arrested for DUI after dumping a load of liquid manure on the city of El Dorado Kansas
 
When I flew MD-11s for FedEx we hauled horses all over the US between major horse
racing tracks. FedEx also flew polo horses all over the world or foreign race
horses to the states. These race horses were high dollar animals and the cost per
Miami to Newark was about 6-8000 dollars each. Coast to coast and international was
a lot more. Had some charter trips hauling horses out of Calgary to mostly Japan and
they were not going to ride or race them if you get my drift. Competing freight
company flew a load of 74 horses overseas with one inoperative A/C pack and several
died enroute. They stopped at Anchorage to offload the dead ones but airport denied
the offload and they hauled the dead and still living the rest of the way and most
of them didn't survive. Horses produce a lot of CO which requires all A/C packs to
work for proper air flow.
 
I am about to put CAUTION OLD PERSON on the back of all my vehicles. Living on a State highway I think I am going to get rear ended slowing down to turn in my drive. I
don't have a caution sign on the back of my horse trailer. Some horse trailer builders put that on the trailers at the factory years ago. I don't see it on the newer
trailers around here now.
 
(quoted from post at 06:45:38 10/05/20) Once upon a time, other drivers might have been
aware that a trailer or truck carrying livestock or
horses, would drive differently. Slowing sooner and
avoiding braking hard , so not to toss the animals
off their feet. It was simply a heads up to other
drivers that the truck or trailer ahead may be driving
slower and more cautious because they were
hauling livestock.
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Why would braking hard BEHIND a trailer load of horses cause any problems for the horses? The sign is on the back, not written backwards on the hood of the pickup truck towing the trailer. Not that your typical driver in 2020 even knows what a rear view mirror is.

I've never seen a trailer that had CAUTION CATTLE written across the back.
 
(quoted from post at 07:14:23 10/06/20)
(quoted from post at 06:45:38 10/05/20) Once upon a time, other drivers might have been
aware that a trailer or truck carrying livestock or
horses, would drive differently. Slowing sooner and
avoiding braking hard , so not to toss the animals
off their feet. It was simply a heads up to other
drivers that the truck or trailer ahead may be driving
slower and more cautious because they were
hauling livestock.
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Why would braking hard BEHIND a trailer load of horses cause any problems for the horses? The sign is on the back, not written backwards on the hood of the pickup truck towing the trailer. Not that your typical driver in 2020 even knows what a rear view mirror is.

I've never seen a trailer that had CAUTION CATTLE written across the back.
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Regardless of what kind of trailer it is, braking hard behind a trailer is not the problem, not braking hard enough is the problem.

Still plenty of trucks out there with manual transmissions or paddle shift automatics that can rapidly reduce speed without illuminating any brake lights.
 
Maybe its because they could lift their tails and let fly at any time. . . .


Seriously, it means ¨Don´t run over me!¨
 
(quoted from post at 11:49:13 10/06/20) Some people have a valuable performance horse on board. This is my granddaughter.
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That there is something to be proud of.
Overall I do not click on a whole lot of nothing on any site but pictures like this definitely do create the need for a like button to press here.
 
Many state traffic laws still have a requirement to sound the horn when passing a vehicle. Such a practice could be disruptive to the horses being transported.

As we have inferred, few drivers follow even the basic traffic laws today, such as actually stopping at a STOP sign, much less proper following distance or something so obscure as honking to signal a pass.

I was made aware of the Michigan law when a friend was involved in an accident while passing in a legal passing zone, but was determined to not have honked his horn, admittedly, and thus cited for an illegal pass.
 
(quoted from post at 05:38:27 10/06/20)
(quoted from post at 07:14:23 10/06/20) I've never seen a trailer that had CAUTION CATTLE written across the back.
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Regardless of what kind of trailer it is, braking hard behind a trailer is not the problem, not braking hard enough is the problem.

Still plenty of trucks out there with manual transmissions or paddle shift automatics that can rapidly reduce speed without illuminating any brake lights.
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Wouldn't it make more sense to have "CAUTION, VEHICLE AHEAD" on every vehicle then?
 
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