Using an old dirt scoop!

[JayChase]

Last night I bought an old dirt scoop and today I hitched my haflinger Molly to it. It took a couple of tries to coordinate driving the horse and handling the scoop, but it was FUN! However, I am still working on how to dump it efficiently. Any suggestions?
Jay

[Andy Carson]

I agree a scoop is a lot of fun. There are two approaches that I have used for dumping. One, you can just bring the handles up in the rear, letting the nose dive into the ground, which brings the whole thing over. Be careful to have you horse ready for this action, because it kinda makes a loud bang right behind them and it can be spooky. Alternatively, you can stop your horse, lift up on the handles and wiggle the tool back and forth to dump some or all of whatever you are dumping, advance and repeat. I have done both and either works fine. If you manually dump, you can spread out whatver you are dumping a bit more than if you just tip, which dumps it all in one spot. A word of warning, don’t let you reins catch on the handles if and when dump the scoop. Very Very bad things happen.

[Jay]

Also, watch that the ribs don’t get in the line of fire of the handles as they flip over- not that it ever happened to me of course! It is a great tool… Jay

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