nklr - loud exhaust for livestock?!?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:18 am
I have a stock exhausted 2003 and must admit liking the quiet while riding. However I wound up in a situation where a more open pipe would have offered some benefit.
We recently purchased a young bull (about 850 Lbs) for our heard. He managed to get out of the cow pasture and into the horse pasture, not that this is a big problem, but he cannot do his work with the horses, that s for sure!
I jumped on my KLR and started to scare this bull back into the correct pasture. It was fun chasing the bull around, twice he stopped and squared off with me. He held is head high, and started pawing the ground, flinging dirt behind him. I responded with a little rooster tail of my own, here is where some exhaust noise would have paid off. He (thankfully) never charged me - he also did not seem very scared by my antics. Finally having enough of me, he calmly trotted back to his cow pasture gate closed.
When I purchased my KLR, I never figured on using it for wrangling livestock, but it sure works!
Steve in Plantersville, TX
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