training horses driving pair, homemade pole

Young arabian-percheron brothers, who have been driven singly, in training for pairs driving using PVC pipe practice pole. Much prior training has been done, and these boys grew up together; do not try this at home! Step-by-step pairs training, groundwork to hitching at: http://portraitswithhorses.com/blog/2008/06/27/driving-horse-pairs-training-s... Trail riding, more horse fun on blog petArtistWithPeaches at http://www.portraitswithhorses.com/blog/

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Pets & Animals

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• driving
• carriage
• horse
• pairs
• training
• arabian
• percheron

[horsefavors]

Wonderfully done! Thanks for sharing. I am working at getting a pair of miniatures together for a friend. I am so glad to see others training with open bridles!

I would totally love the "plans" for the pairs training pole.

Regards,

Horse Favors!

[horsepaintings]

@horsefavors We had no plans, but study the vid and it should be pretty obvious. 2-inch pipe, a T-joint glued with PVC pipe glue as used for plumbing, but beware it was not really strong enough glue and pulled apart on us a couple of times. Holes drilled for bolted-in eyes to fasten the traces and pole straps to. These horses were well-desensitized to things touching their legs in their earliest training, so it didn't bother them at all when the pole parts dropped down and started dragging.

[horsefavors]

@horsefavors Thanks for the information. Yes, I noted must have been PVC, just curious how it was all attached. I will take youre advice!

Regards,

Horse Favors!