Restraint of domestic animals; a book for the use of students and practitioners; 312 illustrations from pen drawings and 26 half tones from original photographs . position they are secured by two or more halfhitches around one of the pasterns. Thp other rope is tight-ened until the off hind foot is pulled down near the is then and there fixed by tying to collar. Bussian Method of Casting with Hopes. The Russian method of casting with ropes, Figure 158, issimilar in many respects to that of Kohard, Figure 150. It(Russian) consists of a %-inch rope 25 feet long; at one endis a heavy m
Restraint of domestic animals; a book for the use of students and practitioners; 312 illustrations from pen drawings and 26 half tones from original photographs . position they are secured by two or more halfhitches around one of the pasterns. Thp other rope is tight-ened until the off hind foot is pulled down near the is then and there fixed by tying to collar. Bussian Method of Casting with Hopes. The Russian method of casting with ropes, Figure 158, issimilar in many respects to that of Kohard, Figure 150. It(Russian) consists of a %-inch rope 25 feet long; at one endis a heavy metal ring 3 inches in diameter. If the horse is tobe cast on the off side, the collar is made by simply looping thering end of rope (h) around base of neck (d) (e). The freeend of the rope (b) is carried downward to and around off hindpastern (a) ; then forward and upward (c) to and through CASTING AND SEOUEING HARNESS AND ROPES. 135 ring (h). The operator now stands on tlie off side, the sideupon wliich the animal is to fall, and makes traction on thehalter rein (e) with one hand and free end of rope (g) with theother. This compels the horse to lie Fig. 158. Russian IVlethod of Casting With Ropes. Ordinary Double Side Line Ropes. The rope used in casting and securing a horse by the ordi-nary double side line method, Figure 159, should be 34-inohin diameter and 60 feet long. It is doubled and at its middlea collar or neck loop (k) (h) is made by tying a simple knot(h). This collar loop is placed around base of neck; the ropesare then passed downward between the fore legs, then backward(e) (f) to and around—from without inward—each hind pas-tern (a) (b) ; thence under the preceding rope in a crossed 136 EESTEAINT OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
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