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| I hauled with my friend yesterday who has misc items in the front stall of her 3 horse. A metal shelf stand with items in it, hay, a metal rack, and boards bungied to the ceiling above the horses. These things were held with bungy cords to a few areas in the front, so they weren't just rolling around. Apparently she hauls this way, granted she doesn't haul much, but she saw nothing wrong with it.
So, am I too picky, or do others use the xtra stall space to store stuff? And this was not a stud door dividing this from where the horses were.
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  Texas Lone Star
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Location: where ever my L/Q trl is parked | I haul by myself mostly.... in my first stall I usually have 1/2 bales of hay, large bushel size water bucket and portable panel pen. It's all tied in and the divider is full stud rubber panel. Helps keep stuff from getting under the horses and keeps the pee from splattering on the hay etc. I haul with shaving where the horses stand to absorb any pee.
I would be leery of a metal shelving rack even if she bungys' it in. What would she want to bungy to the ceiling boards? That alone would tell me to find another ride. Geez, what if the bungies decided to break while in transport and they do wear out, where would they end up?    |
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Elite Veteran
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| You pretty much are thinking exactly what I was thinking. I rarely put anything in an empty section that doesn't have a stud door, even hay. She is a long time dear friend and usually when we go we go with my trailer, so this hasn't come up before. It knew she kept stuff in there, but I thought she took it out when she hauled her horses. I took a few things out, and I know she thought I was just being too picky. Her answer was " we haul this way all the time, it's fine".....YIKES!!!
And to answer your question, she shows, so the boards bungied to the ceiling is the frame for stalls when they set up at a big horse show to frame a stall that they make into a room.
Just had to run it by someone else to see how off base I may have been.
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| Seems like an accident waiting to happen to me.
I did set my tack box in the back corner of my 2 horse (no rear tack) when we came out here to iowa. It's pretty heavy, no skid bottom and we had to put some serious muscle into it to push it around. If I had really had to slam on the brakes hard it *might* have shifted, or in the event of an acciden. I felt comfortable with it back there and it never moved around. I've also set hay in that corner, just one bale, nothing stacked to fall over. |
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Queen Bean of Ponyland
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Location: WYOMING | Ive been in a trailer wreck before. The trailer didnt flip but got bounced around. I had 4 horses aboard. The mats had been tossed from under the horses to on top of the horses. I would never haul with stuff in the horse area again and I do have a full stud wall in my trailer. |
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Elite Veteran
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| A wreck is always my fear, or having to swerve to avoid a wreck. Either way, it can jar things loose and send them flying around. Glad we all made it OK, and I think I'll always take my rig in the future, or gently suggest we move things and offer to help. |
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Location: Texas | The only thing that goes in the first stall is hay. I would never store other things up there. |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | The only thing we keep in the front stall is hay, buckets and grain. |
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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | uhh no.
All it takes is one pothole and an old bungee cord to have a shelf come crashing down in a trailer onto your horses. stud wall or not at all. I wouldn't haul with her if that's what she leaves in the back side of the trailer. I would consider it if there was a stud wall dividing this stuff from another part of the trailer though. I am picky and that's why I just haul by myself with my boyfriend. |
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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | Strangest thing I ever hauled with a horse was a billy goat. lol. he started in the back stall and when I got 10 miles down the road to my destination, he had gone under the horse in the middle stall and was standing in the front stall. Luckily I was hauling a really big, calm horse but still I wish I had a video of the goat going under the horse while I was driving.
I have hauled other things in the front stall, including a water tank but we had it penned in there by plywood that went all the way past the divider. I had to stop hauling hay in the front stall because my horses figured out how to reach under the divider and pull bales apart while going down the road. Now all my hay is in the bed of the truck or my tack/dressing room. Don't think I would put a metal shelf stand or rack in my trailer with horses, and I darn sure wouldn't bungee anything but pillows up above them. |
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I keep my change in my pockets
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Location: MN | We have a stud divider in our 3 horse. In the first stall we have hay, a grill, small lengths of boards to level trailer, extra pop, and slickers. |
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Location: North Dakota | Before my current trailer which has mangers (cannot live without ever again!) I hauled with some stuff in my front stall. Nothing like a metal shelf but I had a blanket bar (not a swingout one) hanging on the slant wall high enough that it was out of the horses way and a bridle rack above the rear window (even hauled horses in that stall with stuff hanging on that rack but that trailer was wide enough with plenty of room and never had a problem), then hay bales, and 15 gal water jugs that sat at the escape door for easy access at all times. They stayed there even when we hauled horses in that stall because they were lower than a manger would be and not as wide. They never bothered a horse. They were tied together and to the bar that went across the escape door to keep them in place especially when empty. |
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Expert
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | I have a 3h trailer and When we go to week long shows there's no where to put everything so a lot ends up in the stud stall. Nothing gets stacked higher than the divider though. |
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Expert
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Crowned Image - 2014-06-09 9:29 AM
uhh no.
All it takes is one pothole and an old bungee cord to have a shelf come crashing down in a trailer onto your horses. stud wall or not at all. I wouldn't haul with her if that's what she leaves in the back side of the trailer. I would consider it if there was a stud wall dividing this stuff from another part of the trailer though. I am picky and that's why I just haul by myself with my boyfriend.
Even if the bungee cord did break wouldn't the divider catch the shelf? |
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 Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | I do haul stuff in the first stall but only ehen I have my homemade studpanel in there. It is a piece of plywood bolted with 4 U-bolts to the slant. It does not move! Plus I don't put anything higher than that plywood. And usually it is hay, shavings and a wheelbarrow and so on. So mainly big stuff. The smaller stuff I pack in totes.
Never had an issue.
But I would never haul anything where it could end up underneath the horses.. Can't even imaging that wreck waiting to happen... |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Oologah, Oklahoma | Maybe your friend isn't aware of the danger this poses as I have thought about doing this myself but didn't realize how dangerous it could be. It wouldn't hurt to mention it gently...she may thank you. :) |
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Elite Veteran
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| I love my dear friend, but she seem's to be oblivious to the danger. It's odd, she's very independent, a CPA, has her own business, very successful, but if her husband say's 'it's OK', then she goes with it. He even goes and buys her car when he thinks it's time, she doesn't have any input. He's the one that feels it's OK to haul with boards strapped to the ceiling with tie ties and bungy cords.
They are primarily show people and since I posted this, I've thought more about it. I think show folks view things a bit differently. If you have to go to a show, and you need the 500 brushes, the vacuum, the fake tails, the sofa for the stall with all the curtains, etc, etc, etc, it's almost like your horse is in the mix but not at the top of the list. Barrel racers cherish that horse like nothing else...except maybe the kid/hubby, but all the other stuff is just 'stuff'. Get that horse there with no issues, and you'll worry about the fluff when you get there.
Anyway, thanks to all who have confirmed I'm not being over protective, and will in the future just take my own dang trailer. |
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