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Location: South Georgia | On the hunt for a new trailer--no living quarters of any sort. If a gooseneck has a dressing/tack room, would you still want a rear tack also? What are the benefits? The rear tacks seem to be in so many of the trailers, but if there's a tack area in the dressing room, what is the specific benefit of having a rear also, other than just more storage? |
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| My GN trailer has no living quarters. It has the option to put the saddle stand in the front dressing room or in rear tack. We have never put it in the front because we use the front as a living area with a small fridge, matress up front, etc.
The benefit of it in the back is that you don't get your dressing area full of dirt, sweat, and grime.
We had a small BP slant that had front tack only. The front would collect stuff, dirt, hay, etc. It's MUCH better with rear tack! |
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| A rear tack is a must. Your saddles and all other tack are right there. If it goes up front you have to step up into the trailer and walk across to the saddle rack. What a hassle--been there, done that. I had a blanket bar added to mine in the rear tack, for ease and blankets stink. My trailer is 7 feet wide and that under manger storage in my trainer's trailer is pretty darn nice. (Hers is 8 feet.) |
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| I had a Titan 2h BP for a while with no rear tack. I ended up putting one in it.
Pros: I liked the extra space. I boarded at the time so I didn't have a whole tack room to myself for stuff. It was nice to have the extra room to store things.
Cons: in that particular trailer at the time, none really. Now that I have them at home I love having my FIL's stock trailer for flexibility, being able to haul hay, cattle, lawnmowers, lumber, so on and so forth.
We had a stock combo we never should have sold that my fiancé had moved the slam gate up in to make a tack room using the escape door. We are really regretting selling it, but at the time we needed the money and had my LQ. Now we want something smaller to run around in. Such is life.
Our next LQ will likely be a stock combo with a mid tack instead of a rear tack.
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Location: Florida | No, having an open back is great for loading colts, or tractors, or furniture. My favorite trailer had a large living quarters with inside tack. The tack was always dry, no mildew, and easily accessible. It was supposed to be a 4 horse with dressing room, I simply had the wall moved back to make it a 3 horse and used the extra room for tack.
I miss that trailer, won a lot while pulling it.
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| Vickie - 2017-04-11 7:58 AM
No, having an open back is great for loading colts, or tractors, or furniture. My favorite trailer had a large living quarters with inside tack. The tack was always dry, no mildew, and easily accessible. It was supposed to be a 4 horse with dressing room, I simply had the wall moved back to make it a 3 horse and used the extra room for tack.
I miss that trailer, won a lot while pulling it.
Mine folds flat and you can run a 4 wheeler in there.
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Location: Central Texas | I have a 3H GN with 2 saddle racks, 1 in dressing room and 1 in the rear. I removed the rear rack and collapsed the tack to have more room. It is so much better and safer that way! |
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| I love a rear tack but that being said the saddle racks must be removable and it must collapse. You never know when you'll need it all opened up. My husband has figured out how to fit a Polaris Rzr back there. Lord help me.  |
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | Now that front tacks offer the swinging saddle racks I dont need a rear tack. |
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| No I won't buy a trailer that has a rear tack. I prefer a side tack. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | I don't have a LQ and that space is my tack room. I absolutely love it. I have a cabinet and boot box, and I am able to have everything organized and have space. I still have a the tack space in the back, but have buckets, and hoses and such things back there. I would not really need the rear tack. |
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Location: Texas | I don't like having a rear tack. |
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Location: Jersey Girl | For me it is. I board my horses so need that rear tack for storage since I don't have my own barn to put things in. |
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Location: North Dakota | For a non-LQ trailer, a rear tack would NOT be a must for me.
However, right now, my trailer is essentially my barn. I keep all my tack (and saddle stand) in the dressing room and then I'm using my rear tack as my "feed room" where I keep their buckets and hay, and supplements.
Someday when I have my own place, I won't need a "feed room" in my trailer, haha.
So it just boils down to how you use your own non-LQ trailer.
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Location: Phoenix | Nateracer - 2017-04-11 5:49 AM
My GN trailer has no living quarters. It has the option to put the saddle stand in the front dressing room or in rear tack. We have never put it in the front because we use the front as a living area with a small fridge, matress up front, etc.
The benefit of it in the back is that you don't get your dressing area full of dirt, sweat, and grime.
We had a small BP slant that had front tack only. The front would collect stuff, dirt, hay, etc. It's MUCH better with rear tack!
Ditto. No rear tack would be a deal breaker for a gooseneck. Lots more storage up front. We even put a cot in the living area to increase sleeping space. |
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Location: Northwest | I like rear tacks that are removable or fold all the way flat. Permanent ones will probably be a deal breaker for me in the future. I'd rather not have one than have one that you can't move. |
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Location: Willows, CA | We had a 4Star dealership in California and that gave us the chance to pull literally every configuration that you can imagine. In the end I found that my favorite and current layout in a gooseneck non-LQ trailer was a large front dressing room and a side tack right beside it's door. I have put everything from golf carts to pallets of Renew Gold in the horse compartment without trouble or having to work around a collapsed rear tack divider. I used a fold away rear tack for years, but they always get shavings and pee under the divider. The side tack is the way to go for me. |
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Location: South Georgia | winwillows - 2017-04-11 4:58 PM We had a 4Star dealership in California and that gave us the chance to pull literally every configuration that you can imagine. In the end I found that my favorite and current layout in a gooseneck non-LQ trailer was a large front dressing room and a side tack right beside it's door. I have put everything from golf carts to pallets of Renew Gold in the horse compartment without trouble or having to work around a collapsed rear tack divider. I used a fold away rear tack for years, but they always get shavings and pee under the divider. The side tack is the way to go for me.
Good point about the shavings creeping under. That would drive me crazy. |
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Location: MT | I'll never own one with a rear tack again. Saddles fall off, stuff gets dusty, if they are collapsible you have to figure out a way so the shavings and pee are blocked from running under them, and they are awkward as hell for storage in my opinion. Plus I really like having a full back door.
Mid tacks = awesome!
Front tacks = better than unscrambling the maze of a rear tack, but less preferable than a mid tack.
Rear tacks = yuck!
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| ruggedchica - 2017-04-12 9:41 AM
I'll never own one with a rear tack again. Saddles fall off, stuff gets dusty, if they are collapsible you have to figure out a way so the shavings and pee are blocked from running under them, and they are awkward as hell for storage in my opinion. Plus I really like having a full back door.
Mid tacks = awesome!
Front tacks = better than unscrambling the maze of a rear tack, but less preferable than a mid tack.
Rear tacks = yuck!
I have an Elite. My saddles do not fall off, pee does not get into my saddle compartment, and if I keep it semi organized I can find anything. I store my TIRE AIDE behind the saddle rack so it works sort of as a tool box too. I have found it is pretty easy to organize using those milk crates. You can stand your smb's in them and find them right away. Grooming stuff too. |
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Location: on the fine line between insanity and geniusness | I have a side load so my rear tack has two doors and goes all the way across my trailer, I LOVE IT. I have pretty much pulled one of everything and this is my favorite trailer because of my tack room. Not only do I have tons of storage, but I like the fact that if someone rear ends me- they are hitting a bunch of saddles and not my horses. I don't like front tacks and midtacks because you have to step up and in with saddles, pads, bridles etc. I've had hip surgery and haul up to 6 with me, that's too much climbing in and out for me. |
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Location: NC | Bought a used trailer about 8 months ago and it didnt come with rear tack walls. It has the places where its supposed to go but its not there. I keep trying to find the walls but so far no luck under $1000 from dealer. I would like to have one to free up room in the front tack, but am making due instead of shelling out a bunch of money ( would rather get an ac installed or an awning lol ) |
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| Racer4eva - 2017-04-12 12:04 PM
Bought a used trailer about 8 months ago and it didnt come with rear tack walls. It has the places where its supposed to go but its not there. I keep trying to find the walls but so far no luck under $1000 from dealer. I would like to have one to free up room in the front tack, but am making due instead of shelling out a bunch of money ( would rather get an ac installed or an awning lol )
I bought a blanket bar an it was $350. Maybe you can find a rear tack in a wrecked trailer. |
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Location: NC | streakysox - 2017-04-12 1:16 PM
Racer4eva - 2017-04-12 12:04 PM
Bought a used trailer about 8 months ago and it didnt come with rear tack walls. It has the places where its supposed to go but its not there. I keep trying to find the walls but so far no luck under $1000 from dealer. I would like to have one to free up room in the front tack, but am making due instead of shelling out a bunch of money ( would rather get an ac installed or an awning lol )
I bought a blanket bar an it was $350. Maybe you can find a rear tack in a wrecked trailer.
Not sure where to find one. I keep my eyes open though. This is my first gn and would like to eventually be able to travel and stay in it which is why im thinking ac over anything. (not that i wouldnt love to have the rear tack but priorities) |
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Location: Northern Ontario | For me it is. I have a 2 horse bumperpull slant and I try to keep most of my tack and hay in the rear tack because I sleep in the dressing room |
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Location: Desert Land | I don't like the rear tack set-up personally. I custom ordered my trailer and had them put a big dressing room that eventually I want to put a weekender in and I have a 5' wide mid tack. The saddle rack swings out and there's plenty of room in there. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | Ours has a rear tack and I've never used it. Had the trailer for over 10 years. |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | I would use the front tack, if those are your options on the trailer you're looking at. I hate the rear tacks! But, I don't mind stepping down out of the front tack with saddles.
My bumper pull has the front tack and I keep saddles in there because I don't like trying to put saddles up into the rear tack saddle racks. But, I'm short so that bothers me.
My LQ has only a rear tack, but it also has a ramp and that's not such an issue there. But, it's still so cramped in the rear tack, it's a hassle to get my things put back in there. Seems like I can never just set something down in there, I constantly have to rearrange and it just bothers me. I wanted a mid tack, but ended up with a 4 horse. That trailer is at the shop now having a stud wall added so I can make the first stall into a mid tack (present from my wonderful husband). |
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