Mounted search and rescue

[Pennbo's <pennbo@verizon.net>]

Thanks Everyone! You have all reconfirmed what I have always believed 
about trucks. But I haven't looked to buy a new one in many years and I 
thought that perhaps things had changed! I guess I just needed some 
confirmation that I was on the right track. The issue of a moving animal 
rather than a static weight has always been a concern of mine and I have 
told many people not to pull any distance with a 1/2 ton. Seeing an SUV 
pulling a two horse gives me the shivers.

At least I think we educated this particular salesman a little bit. I 
gave him a lot of the same reasons you fed back to me and some new facts 
to think about. (it was a dead give away that he was not knowledgeable 
about horses when he told us that the "average" horse weighs 3000 
pounds.....LOL...we corrected that misconception!)

Now I need to wrap my brain around the sheer SIZE of the newer trucks. 
Have any of you stood next to a Chevy 2500 Silverado? It's HUGE. I'm 
tall and the top rail comes almost to my shoulder! I don't even want to 
think about throwing tack over that rail and into the bed!!!

Thanks again all!
Chris Pennington

(any recommendations on brand/type of three horse trailers? That's also 
in the works! I usually haul only two beasts at once, and we have a 
couple of two horse trailers, but we have three horses and in our fire 
prone area we need one to hold them all - just in case.)