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| We finally were able to purchase a new (to us) lq horse trailer. We haven't owned a trailer in several years... always borrowed my father in laws old stock trailer when we needed it. So, we signed papers yesterday after a long hard search for the perfect trailer for us. We will take delivery next week after they detail it up and fine tune everything for us. So I'm looking for a trailer grooming bag and a few other goodies if anyone can recommend what I might need, I'd sure appreciate it! What's a good trailer grooming bag to get? So far I've seen a few neat ones by weaver. This trailer doesn't have mangers in it so do you hang nets for hay for long trips? This is our first lq trailer and besides our home, one of the biggest purchases we've made! | |
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| Yaaaaay!!!! We just traded up ourselves, gets here the 19th, so exciting!!!!
For storage pockets I actually just got a Walmart shoe organizer and screwed it into the wall of the tack room. I think it had 16 or 20 pockets and works great.
Hay nets is up to you...I usually don’t hang one at all. I may tomorrow when I leave for Bonus Race because I doubt they’ll be done with breakfast yet and it’s a 4 hr trip. When I do I always make sure they have fly masks on to keep it out of their face in the wind. I have mangers and still use a net when I give them hay - I found out pretty quick more of it ended up on the trailer floor than not when I just put it in the manger. | |
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| OhMax - 2018-06-07 8:31 AM
Yaaaaay!!!! We just traded up ourselves, gets here the 19th, so exciting!!!!
For storage pockets I actually just got a Walmart shoe organizer and screwed it into the wall of the tack room. I think it had 16 or 20 pockets and works great.
Hay nets is up to you...I usually don’t hang one at all. I may tomorrow when I leave for Bonus Race because I doubt they’ll be done with breakfast yet and it’s a 4 hr trip. When I do I always make sure they have fly masks on to keep it out of their face in the wind. I have mangers and still use a net when I give them hay - I found out pretty quick more of it ended up on the trailer floor than not when I just put it in the manger.
Never thought about those things from walmart, great idea! Thank you! | |
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| I use a tacky mat I won but while at Walmart get a roll of the industrial strength Velcro and hang a couple of strips inside your tack room to keep your boots organized -works great! | |
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| Best Hack I ever saw, and immediately did, was get the thick and wide velcro from home store and stick it to the tack room door or where ever you have room. Stick all your boots and bell boots on it for easy travel!! Never lose a boot again! | |
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| FLITASTIC - 2018-06-07 9:30 AM
Best Hack I ever saw, and immediately did, was get the thick and wide velcro from home store and stick it to the tack room door or where ever you have room. Stick all your boots and bell boots on it for easy travel!! Never lose a boot again!
I'm going to do this... I've got more boots and bells for a calvary! And really only 2 horses that I ride lol! | |
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| Another question I thought of as I sat on my front porch admiring my trailer... do ya'll lock the door when you haul? I have to go tomorrow and pick up the keys to the lq part and the drop down windows. I'm curious if it's a good idea to lock the doors to the horse part when you haul? | |
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| want2chase3 - 2018-06-26 4:01 PM
Another question I thought of as I sat on my front porch admiring my trailer... do ya'll lock the door when you haul? I have to go tomorrow and pick up the keys to the lq part and the drop down windows. I'm curious if it's a good idea to lock the doors to the horse part when you haul?
Do you mean locking the horses in while you're hauling? We always use carabiners or snaps to hold the door latched as added protection for the door handle in the holder thing, but never locked the doors unless we were parked and everyone was unloaded (i.e. at night). I personally would never lock horses in while hauling, I've known one girl that locked her horses in and got into a wreck and her trailer started on fire. She was frazzled and couldn't get her keys figured out to let the horses out and one of them ended up perishing from smoke inhalation while locked inside the trailer.
ETA: congratulations on the new trailer!!!! That is absolutely exciting, and I hope you enjoy every minute you get to spend in it!
Edited by madredepeanut 2018-06-26 6:09 PM
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| madredepeanut - 2018-06-26 6:06 PM
want2chase3 - 2018-06-26 4:01 PM
Another question I thought of as I sat on my front porch admiring my trailer... do ya'll lock the door when you haul? I have to go tomorrow and pick up the keys to the lq part and the drop down windows. I'm curious if it's a good idea to lock the doors to the horse part when you haul?
Do you mean locking the horses in while you're hauling? We always use carabiners or snaps to hold the door latched as added protection for the door handle in the holder thing, but never locked the doors unless we were parked and everyone was unloaded (i.e. at night ). I personally would never lock horses in while hauling, I've known one girl that locked her horses in and got into a wreck and her trailer started on fire. She was frazzled and couldn't get her keys figured out to let the horses out and one of them ended up perishing from smoke inhalation while locked inside the trailer.
ETA: congratulations on the new trailer!!!! That is absolutely exciting, and I hope you enjoy every minute you get to spend in it!
Yes, that's what I meant. Locking the door where the horses load. I've only ever used a stock trailer so never had the option to lock. I sure don't want to put my horses in danger in worse case scenario. .. I'm just curious what people do, and why and what's the best thing to do. What you described is my worst nightmare while hauling! Thank you so much for your input!
Edited by want2chase3 2018-06-26 6:17 PM
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| want2chase3 - 2018-06-26 4:13 PM
madredepeanut - 2018-06-26 6:06 PM
want2chase3 - 2018-06-26 4:01 PM
Another question I thought of as I sat on my front porch admiring my trailer... do ya'll lock the door when you haul? I have to go tomorrow and pick up the keys to the lq part and the drop down windows. I'm curious if it's a good idea to lock the doors to the horse part when you haul?
Do you mean locking the horses in while you're hauling? We always use carabiners or snaps to hold the door latched as added protection for the door handle in the holder thing, but never locked the doors unless we were parked and everyone was unloaded (i.e. at night ). I personally would never lock horses in while hauling, I've known one girl that locked her horses in and got into a wreck and her trailer started on fire. She was frazzled and couldn't get her keys figured out to let the horses out and one of them ended up perishing from smoke inhalation while locked inside the trailer.
ETA: congratulations on the new trailer!!!! That is absolutely exciting, and I hope you enjoy every minute you get to spend in it!
Yes, that's what I meant. Locking the door where the horses load. I've only ever used a stock trailer so never had the option to lock. I sure don't want to put my horses in danger in worse case scenario. .. I'm just curious what people do, and why and what's the best thing to do. What you described is my worst nightmare while hauling! Thank you so much for your input!
I hear you entirely, that is one of the worst case scenarios I can imagine- that and the floor falling out from under the horses' hooves and the owners not knowing it- I remember reading a story about that when I was younger, absolutely devastating! But I think it was an extremely old trailer, and I'm guessing they hadn't checked the floors recently.
On a similar but slightly different tangent- my senior year of high school my parents got me a project weanling from some neighbors, and we hauled her home after a rodeo in our LQ trailer (she was in the first stall with the stud divider and escape door), and when we got home, she was gone! We unloaded our other horses and she was NOWHERE to be found. The only thing we could figure was that she jumped through the screened part of the window (since the drop down windows were already down), and on a bump the screen must have bounced back closed. It was absolutely bizarre. Back down the road we went, and there she was, munching on grass like nothing happened. She loaded right back up in the trailer, and we drove home with me in the back, and she didn't have a care in the world. She had been on a trailer before with other horses, so we have no idea what possessed her to jump through the window. Ever since then though, I am always leery about the screened windows that are under the drop down ones, and double check to make sure the screens are closed and actually latched shut. She turned out to be a 1D/Pro level horse, so I don't think she was *too* affected.
Edited by madredepeanut 2018-06-26 6:36 PM
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| madredepeanut - 2018-06-26 6:32 PM
want2chase3 - 2018-06-26 4:13 PM
madredepeanut - 2018-06-26 6:06 PM
want2chase3 - 2018-06-26 4:01 PM
Another question I thought of as I sat on my front porch admiring my trailer... do ya'll lock the door when you haul? I have to go tomorrow and pick up the keys to the lq part and the drop down windows. I'm curious if it's a good idea to lock the doors to the horse part when you haul?
Do you mean locking the horses in while you're hauling? We always use carabiners or snaps to hold the door latched as added protection for the door handle in the holder thing, but never locked the doors unless we were parked and everyone was unloaded (i.e. at night ). I personally would never lock horses in while hauling, I've known one girl that locked her horses in and got into a wreck and her trailer started on fire. She was frazzled and couldn't get her keys figured out to let the horses out and one of them ended up perishing from smoke inhalation while locked inside the trailer.
ETA: congratulations on the new trailer!!!! That is absolutely exciting, and I hope you enjoy every minute you get to spend in it!
Yes, that's what I meant. Locking the door where the horses load. I've only ever used a stock trailer so never had the option to lock. I sure don't want to put my horses in danger in worse case scenario. .. I'm just curious what people do, and why and what's the best thing to do. What you described is my worst nightmare while hauling! Thank you so much for your input!
I hear you entirely, that is one of the worst case scenarios I can imagine- that and the floor falling out from under the horses' hooves and the owners not knowing it- I remember reading a story about that when I was younger, absolutely devastating! But I think it was an extremely old trailer, and I'm guessing they hadn't checked the floors recently.
On a similar but slightly different tangent- my senior year of high school my parents got me a project weanling from some neighbors, and we hauled her home after a rodeo in our LQ trailer (she was in the first stall with the stud divider and escape door ), and when we got home, she was gone! We unloaded our other horses and she was NOWHERE to be found. The only thing we could figure was that she jumped through the screened part of the window (since the drop down windows were already down ), and on a bump the screen must have bounced back closed. It was absolutely bizarre. Back down the road we went, and there she was, munching on grass like nothing happened. She loaded right back up in the trailer, and we drove home with me in the back, and she didn't have a care in the world. She had been on a trailer before with other horses, so we have no idea what possessed her to jump through the window. Ever since then though, I am always leery about the screened windows that are under the drop down ones, and double check to make sure the screens are closed and actually latched shut. She turned out to be a 1D/Pro level horse, so I don't think she was *too* affected.
Oh my gosh! I couldn't imagine! That's insane. Im.glad it all turned out well though. Horses! Yes, I'm always checking floors too. The old stock trailer we used had wood boards for the flooring, I hated it! Made me a nervous wreck when we'd haul, especially far trips. | |
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| I don’t lock the doors to the horse area, but I have started to lock the door to the LQ.
One, I’ve seen them come open if the latch is at all weak. Two, I just had the thought that if I stopped at a station and someone with ill intentions noticed I was traveling alone...well yeah, probably not a bad idea to lock the LQ door. | |
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| OhMax - 2018-06-27 7:35 AM
I don’t lock the doors to the horse area, but I have started to lock the door to the LQ.
One, I’ve seen them come open if the latch is at all weak. Two, I just had the thought that if I stopped at a station and someone with ill intentions noticed I was traveling alone...well yeah, probably not a bad idea to lock the LQ door.
Yes for sure lock the lq! Right now I only have the keys to the horse area we keep it locked at home because I have two very curious mischievous little boys lol! I go to pick up the lq keys today, they had to get a set made for us. Then for sure keeping the lq locked as well. | |
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Super Excited!