>>>The horses can lie down, eat, drink, poop and even roll, > although that > scares me.
The rolling is what bothers me. I go on a ladies week long camp out every year where many of the ladies high tie to tree branches. Twice we've had horses get a rear leg tangled in the rope while rolling and scrooching around -- luckily most everyone has a sharp safety knife handy even in the middle of the night. The mechanical high ties would be less prone to rope stretching . . . but I still use my trailer tying method I learned competing in CTR. Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/
