FEB 23 2023
I'm always very happy to be able to deliver a piece of information to all of my readers that they probably haven't known before----- and today... my bit is the fact that there is a #200 painted on the top of several vehicles as identifying marks----- today I find from the war that those vehicles are carrying dead bodies... and I thought I'd never see that again until just a few minutes later there was A fire department vehicle AT an accident. and darned if it didn't have R 200. on the top of it. so there you have your strike of brilliance for the day.. Well for those who like to understand details........ several people sent me the Budweiser accident which I did watch several times with great fascination and great admiration for the way those horses are trained and the faith they have in their handlers.. I don't know of course how or why the accident happened but I can speculate... remember I have driven 8 donkeys... and I have spent time with several of the men who drive the budweisers and coors hitches on how they hold their reins.........when you're driving 8. you have 8 lines in your hands and each line goes to two horses so the number one line going to the lead team goes to the left side of the left leader and the left side of the right leader so when you pull that reiN you turn both heads and theoretically both horses in that direction.. now by the time you have eight horses out in front of you even if you turn them slightly you end up with miles of leather in your lap.. a right angle turn can easily involve 10 or 12 feet of reins to just the leaders.and that is just the start....... because WHEN . you TURN..... make sure that your 2d team does follow in the footsteps of the 1st and certainly by the 3rd team , they reallllllly must not cut the corner because...if you're in a crowd in a parade the whole business would cut the corner and you'd kill people you have to be sure that if you've turned your front bunch to the right you have to hold your 2nd and 3rd team to the left until it is time to turn...GOT THAT? 2 LINES TURN RIGHT... HOLD 4 LINES TO THE LEFTAND LEAVE THE BACK 2 ALONE TO PULL THE WAGON....WHICH... IN SECONDS ... CHANGES TO LEAVE FRONT 2 ALONE. TURN 2ND TO THE RIGHT—HOLD THE 3RD TO THE LEFT AND LEAVE TEH 4TH PAIR ALONE. one of the functions of the second guy “on the box” seat.... is to help keep all this straight.....so IN THIS ACCIDENT...... as the budweisers stop and stand... that second guy turns to deal with the dog—and that is when the lead team turns and gets in trouble.... so I can assume one of the lines is caught on the movements of the second person. Who by the time he jumps down... they are really Twisted. Fortunately they are beautifully trained to whoa--- which they did after the one fell...—and he stayed pretty quiet until they got all the harness off and he popped up without any further confusion...you can see them “pulling the lines” and letting them fall in a pile behind them... because to get the one horse loose... AND LEAVE 4 LEFT DRIVEABLE.....they had to disconnect LINES IN 8 places—AND....... THE LINE TO THE LEFT LEADER IS SLID THRU A RING ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD OF THE 2ND, 3RD, AND 4TH HORSE BEFORE IT GOES UP THE THE DRIVER ON THE WAGON.—SO TO COUNJT THE SLIDE THRU’S THE 2 LEAADERS LINES SLIDE THRU 6 AND TEH SECOND TEAM HAS TO SLIDE OUT 4----AND THAT IS just the lines. There is another bud accident from years ago... I think it involved a twist to the right also. INTERESTING...... THERE IS A GUY WHO USUALLY DRIVES THE COORS HITCH WHO HAS DRIVEN 40 ---?DICK SPARROW??? ----I THINK HE SAID THEY FIRST HITCHED THEM IN THE SWAMP SO NO ONE WOULD GET STARTED AT RUNNING AWAY... HIS WIFE DRIVES 8 ALSO... I WAS INCLUDED IN A VERY EXCLUSIVE BUNCH “DRIVERS OF 8” THEN I. READ THAT PETA IS ANGRY AT BUDWEISERS TAIL DOCKING--- WHICH. IS A PRACTICAL THING OF ELIMINATING THE FACT THAT A HORSE CAN GET HIS “UNDOCKED” TAIL OVER ONE OF THESE LINES..... PETA DOESN’T LIKE THAT--- NOW........... I WONDER WHY PETA HAS NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT WHAT THEY CUT OFF CHILDREN.... AT LEAST SOME OF THEM
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