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| Tell me your experience with cowboy showers. What did you do? Buy & install or make one? |
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 Big Gun
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Location: Texas | They are a pain. You deal with flies and heat in the summer, sweating by the time you dry off, then freeze during the winter. Spend a little extra and get one inside the trailer |
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  Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | I have one and it's not that bad. My worst experience was forgetting to lock the escape door. I got my hair nice and soapy and felt a breeze. Peeked out of one eye and the dang door was standing wide open. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | CanCan - 2014-07-12 10:33 PM I have one and it's not that bad. My worst experience was forgetting to lock the escape door. I got my hair nice and soapy and felt a breeze. Peeked out of one eye and the dang door was standing wide open.
You got a giggle out of me  ,,, one time I was peeing in the back of my horse trailer, and the darn door blew open with me doing my thing and there was a man sitting in his lawn chair facing me, oh my god I was so shocked. I just pulled up my pants with pride and steped out of my trailer like nothing happen, but now on the inside I was freaking dieing.  .......... I wanted to crawl in a hole somewhere  . Awww the good old days how I miss them... |
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Expert
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| LOL.
my plan is to do the tankless water heater route and port a potty in the horse part first stall because its never had a horse in it and has a stud wall. I got a 3H and only have 2 horses.
I found a way to make a shower using the tankless water heater that is just awesome lol |
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| Look up Zodi camping showers. They are awesome and you get a nice hot shower every time. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: The barn...where else? SW Missouri |
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Queen Bean of Ponyland
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Location: WYOMING | Just make friends with someone who has full LQ's... then at the shows go visit and never leave. |
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 Lady Di
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Location: Oklahoma | They're better than a water hose by the arena, but that's all I've got to say. Much prefer my shower inside the trailer. My experience was that as soon as I got through with my shower, by the time I got back into the LQ, I was already dirty again. :/ |
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 Cyber World Challenged
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Location: My Own Little World | FLITASTIC - 2014-07-13 7:08 AM Look up Zodi camping showers. They are awesome and you get a nice hot shower every time.
We have a Zodi and the only thing with them is that in the winter, they only warm the water about 20 degrees from the beginning temp of your water |
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Extreme Veteran
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| I wish I could post a pic. Buy a $20 cooler, get $49 sure flow pump, get a $29 lawn mower battery. Put a Pepsi crate at the back of your horse area, with trailer on an incline. The water will run out the back, you'll be standing on a Pepsi crate. It works good for very little money. A bucket heater dropped in the cooler will get the water as hot as you can stand it. |
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Location: The South | My husband installed ours and I really like it. Would love to have a LQ, but this trailer is paid for and we're trying like heck to pay down our student loans so I'm grateful for what we have! I love being able to rinse off after sweating my tail off all day in our hot humid heat.
My husband used the todd.redwrench site to help him with all of the tubing and it turned out great. We have a little heater from Home Depot that doesn't take up too much room under the sink, and we stand in a big Rubbermaid tub instead of letting it run on the floor. We dump the soapy water out at night, and we learned to park next to a storm drain if possible :)
Good luck! And check out that website, it's pretty awesome. |
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 Party Reptile
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Location: Magnolia, Texas | I use a 30 gallon plastic barrel with a Zodi water heater shower set up. I guess I'm lucky, mine heats the water up to 110 degrees quickly (it uses 2 small butane bottles and I think D cell batteries). I put it in the stall closst to the living quarters wall (have door between) I hung a hoola hoop from the ceiling for the shower curtain and stand in a rubbermaid tub. Poor the water out after showering (gray water is ok to dump). When I need to haul 4 horses it all stores in the rubbermaid tub and I move it to the front of the trailer until I get parked and settled in. I also bought a nice porta potty that uses the Double Doodie Bags, they are easy to close up and dispose of. |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere | You all are really awesome! I love these ideas....I will have to try some of these out! |
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Location: Wisconsin | My hubby installed one one of the outdoor showers from the camping store. We put it up high and it also has the locking lid that is pretty flush to the wall. He made a square out of PVC and it has a fitting in the middle for putting up the shower curtain hangers, then push it together to close the curtains. He just put a tiny screw in the the side of the above beam and that hold the chain holding up the PVC. He drilled a 1" hole in the floor and we put a clothes washer pan with a sink drain to fit right in that hole to drain. We have a gas water heater and water tank in the LQ, so it works great. |
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| FLITASTIC - 2014-07-13 7:08 AM
Look up Zodi camping showers. They are awesome and you get a nice hot shower every time.
^^^ This! The water pressure is great and invest in a home depot orange bucket for longer showers.  |
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