Go straight

[turk]

I have had my Haflingers for one year now, and they have done everything I have asked of them. Hauling loggs on bobsleighs,skidding logs spreading manure, cutting hay, disking, scuffling potatoes, hilling potatoes, and on and on. Now we are having our Provincial plowing match and we are going to try that. My bigger mare goes well on either side so I will put her in the furrow but her team mate gets way out in the traces. What can I do to keep her streight. I have a short strap to hold her to the off mare but she is pulling her over also. What to do? Kevin Taylor P,E.I.

[Neil Dimmock]

Check your tack first, I find more than half the time its a stretched tug or a lump in the collar or lines are out of wack and all the time people had been wracking there brain’s for a new toy that will solve the problem, it take time even after you found something that might be the problem for the horse to re adjust it self.Let me know what you find and well go from there.
Neil

[turk]

Took your advice Neil and checked my equipment. I shifted my rains on that mareand put them on a 20 foot log. She went as straight as an arrow. I even took the strap off that held them together. So we put them in the walking plow and it was perfect also. Thanks for the help. I may need some again.

[Neil Dimmock]

Way kewl!!!!! Glad to help, just remember ( Check Your Tack First ) Any time bud
Neil

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