I blame Altivo
Feb. 12th, 2007 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
murakoziThe pipe to one of the hydrants at the barn burst on Friday. Fortunately, years back, the park had dug out the old piping for all four hydrants in the barn and rerouted them so they ran beneath the indoor ring. That makes getting down to the pipes/cutoffs a whole lot easier -no digging down through the asphalt flooring of the barn, just the dirt of the indoor ring.
Don dug out to the cutoff for the broken hydrant and shut off water to it. With 3 other hydrants in the barn, there's no need to rush to fix things while it's cold out. Instead of filling the hole back in, he pushed a 10 gallon bucket into it upside-down. That saves the trouble of digging it up again when it's time to replace the hydrant.
The hole is in the indoor ring right at the base of one of the walls, so there are no worries about steering the horses around it. The horses, however, instantly noticed the change to the familiar environment. Their reactions ranged from a couple casual glances at the 'new thing' in the ring as they went by to some dancing/skittering when near the potential horse-eating monster.
Interestingly, some of the horses reacted in ways far different than one would expect of them. Amigo, who STILL eyes the hillside where he saw a scary baby bunny a few years back, checked out the bucket-in-a-hole and then ignored it. Tonka, whose draft lineage tends to have him take most anything in stride, was convinced that this bucket bottom sticking up from the floor in the corner was a thing of terrible danger. Go figure.
Don dug out to the cutoff for the broken hydrant and shut off water to it. With 3 other hydrants in the barn, there's no need to rush to fix things while it's cold out. Instead of filling the hole back in, he pushed a 10 gallon bucket into it upside-down. That saves the trouble of digging it up again when it's time to replace the hydrant.
The hole is in the indoor ring right at the base of one of the walls, so there are no worries about steering the horses around it. The horses, however, instantly noticed the change to the familiar environment. Their reactions ranged from a couple casual glances at the 'new thing' in the ring as they went by to some dancing/skittering when near the potential horse-eating monster.
Interestingly, some of the horses reacted in ways far different than one would expect of them. Amigo, who STILL eyes the hillside where he saw a scary baby bunny a few years back, checked out the bucket-in-a-hole and then ignored it. Tonka, whose draft lineage tends to have him take most anything in stride, was convinced that this bucket bottom sticking up from the floor in the corner was a thing of terrible danger. Go figure.