To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Trucks?
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:03:20 -0700
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.)