At the Eventing Spring Carnival in Thoresby in the next week (March 28th to 30th), a new age of frangible fences will occur at the Eventing Spring Carnival in Thoresby by leading to extensive work by going into safety, design and course structure.
The Swedish inventor Mats Bjornetun, the brain behind Mim Clip Frangible Technology, worked on the designs with event organizer and course designer Stuart Buntine and members of the course building team by Mr. Buntine, Will and Chris Eaton.
See a video of how the cheeky hay dealer fence works in a short clip below
*The fence is properly secured on the ground at the event. The following video only serves for illustration purposes
“I always liked to promote obstacles and tried new things, and I was always interested in security,” said Buntine, director of organizers Bede Events and Chair of the Steering Group FEI Eventing Risk Management.
“Experience has forced me to question if we could make the sport safer, why shouldn't we?”
This is what the 'parallelogram' looks like when the MIM clip is activated.
Mr. Bjornetun added: “We are in a development meeting that will never end.”
The series of fences work on the existing MIM technology that is used in frangible tables – and, as can be seen in the deformable trakehner, which is used in Osberton in 2024. This “parallelogram” system contains MIM clips and collaboration when they are hit by force.
The team has now found ways to include the Frangible “Chassis” in a variety of different fence types. For example, arrowheads, hay shells of roller tops and a classic-looking table that all hide the technology. Fences can be reset in seconds after activation by setting up and replacing the MIM clip.
A friergant arrow tip.
A frangible roller top.
Mr. Buntine announced the starts on March 18 that there was a big goal in moving away from the Meccan aesthetics of the frangible tables to see fences on cross-country courses.
“What I wanted to do is to find fences who did not look at people and said:” Oh, that's a huge one because it looks, “he said.” This work should now start to make it look more traditional. They are normal cross-country bodies, they are frangabel. “
He emphasized that working for happy values is ongoing work and will always be. This includes knowledge in design and construction as well as questions about “soft” activations when a frying device is activated, but is not the result of a competitor who has a bad jump.
“It is a step on the street. It is not an end result. The more people barriers push and expand ideas, the better,” he said.
“We'll get better. I speak with mats and Dave all the time [Vos, an engineer and expert in frangibles]And say “Yes, but … let us push back what was accepted today – can we challenge this to do better?”
He added: “You will never remove the risk. Whatever we do when we gallop a horse in the whole country, there is always risk. We have to reduce the rotation cases, because here is the great risk.”
Other organizers and designers also took part.
The five-star course designer Mike Etherington-Smith was among them and spoke positively about what he saw.
“Everyone is very happy to share ideas in our world,” he said H&HHe added that he was “very pleased” and has already shared knowledge from the day with other experts all over the world.
The sister Jo Williams from Georgie Campbell also spoke at the start, since one of the two main goals of the Georgie Campbell Foundation is to improve the safety of drivers and horses by supporting the implementation of frangible devices to reduce the risk of rotation spaces.
She explained that they are interested in determining what the current basis for research, use and what is happening around the world to form a roadmap and make it clear how the money collected will help.
“Something I saw in my professional life is that what is measured is done,” she said.
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