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Location: Alabama | I'm teaching the local 4H horse club tonight, I decided since its time for them to go to the state horse show, I'd talk on hauling and stalling necessities. What do you never leave home with out and why? |
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Location: Kansas | I never leave without water/buckets, bottled water for me, a cooler, beer for my cooler, sunflower seeds, bute, my first aid kit for both equine/human. Also extra clothing, blankets, extra shavings |
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| jumper cables, aired up spare tire, jack, and a four way! Oh... and duct tape
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Undercover Amish Mafia Member
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Location: Kansas | FlyingJT - 2014-04-24 2:13 PM jumper cables, aired up spare tire, jack, and a four way! Oh... and duct tape
can't forget the toilet paper........ |
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 I keep my butt inside
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Location: Weatherford, Texas | Extra halters, lead ropes, extra rope to tie anything that could break, bailing wire.
Buckets
Medical kit- vet wrap, nonstick pads, cotton wrap, track wraps, DMSO, bute, banamine, dex, tape, furazone, wonder dust, iodine, etc.
Water hose
tire changing things- drive up block, four way, cheat bar, extra lug nuts, good spare
Flashlight
hoof pick, nippers to pull a shoe if needed
extra gas can |
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| hoofs_in_motion - 2014-04-24 2:16 PM
FlyingJT - 2014-04-24 2:13 PM jumper cables, aired up spare tire, jack, and a four way! Oh... and duct tape
can't forget the toilet paper........
You're right...that duct tape might hurt!
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The Advice Guru
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| Are they showing or barrel racing |
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Red Hot Cardinal Fan
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| LAC - 2014-04-24 2:27 PM Your horse! ...sorry I just couldnt resist.
It's honestly a silent fear of mine that one day I'm going to forget my horse. Lol. |
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I keep my butt inside
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Location: Weatherford, Texas | countrygirl2006 - 2014-04-24 3:47 PM
LAC - 2014-04-24 2:27 PM Your horse! ...sorry I just couldnt resist.
When I was growing up we had lots of kids (all the cousins) that shared horses and the horses were spread over 3 different houses. We showed up at a youth rodeo and as we were saddling realized that no one loaded Brown Boy- which 3 of us needed. He had never even been caught. |
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Location: North MS | One horse got left at a barn I worked at too- imagine running down the road leading the horse trying to catch the trailer!
But definitely if it is an overnight/hookup/stalling deal-
Stalls-slow feed hay bags and 2 buckets with the hook connectors taped (plus two bucket hangers). Not hay string. Spend $3 and look high class. If summertime- Fan and extension cord. Also a plug in splitter-because the one time you don't take it, there will only be one outlet out of 4 hanging outlet boxes that works. It happened!
Hay management- I have rolling hay bags. I keep one by the stall so dust/rain won't get to it. When I need a new bale I just take the bag back to my trailer and reload it.
Hookups- water hose, trailer cord adapters, extra length of trailer cord. Regular extension cord for when something won't work. Also the normals- clothes, shoes, BOOTS, safety pins, bobby pins. Food if your trailer can cool it or heat it. Trailer scotching device- wood, rubber or plastic wedge. Jack block if your trailer needs one.
Vehicle- jump starter, battery cables, portable air pump, lug wrench, TRAILER AID (best little tool ever).
If you are going with a group- talk to others about food. Someone can bring a grill and everyone can chip in for one menu item. Burgers, hot dogs, chips, dips etc. |
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  A Lady with Fight
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Location: NC | Hay string! I never leave home without at least 10 different pieces of it. You never know when you'll need it.
Along with the usual stuff of course. |
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Location: Stephenville, TX | I keep a complete set of extra clothes and a light weight waterproof sheet to throw over my horse if he's saddled and it starts raining. I have been to one too many races or rodeos on a perfect sunny day and got soaked to the skin when it poured later on. Nothing worse than a soggy wet saddle for your tush either! |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | countrygirl2006 - 2014-04-24 3:47 PM
LAC - 2014-04-24 2:27 PM Your horse! ...sorry I just couldnt resist.
It's happened lol. We was in a hurry cause we was running late. We was going down the highway listening to my iPod and I screamed out stop. Almost made mom have a wreck. She turned and gave me a bad look and I told we was going to a barrel race so we might need a horse. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Remind them, For heavens sake, please NEVER forget your bridle. This has happened to me on more than one or two occasion. The #1 thing I forget most is "In case of emergency" stall signs. Let younger kids have fun with these. I've seen pretty creative ones. All horse related item you can possibly think of. If you think there's a sLight chance you could possibly need it, bring it. I never forget water and gator aid. Always keep a extra full set of clothes(shirt shorts/jeans bra and panties) in a truck and trailer. Our truck has the pockets on the back of the seats so I stick them in there because we have different trailers and one doesn't have a lq. If there staying over night they may want to take a bicycle, corn hole, ect. Folding chairs for sitting outside by the trailer at night or by the arena during barrel race. Depending on where there going, we always had a pool when we went to Jackson MS for youth world. The list really is endless on what to take. |
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Married to a Louie Lover
Posts: 3303
| Well we've never forgot a horse...but we sent some members of the rodeo team after them once for the homecoming parade, and they loaded the wrong white one. Instead of the one that would walk down the street, they loaded the one who hadn't been ridden in 3 years and hadn't been off the property in at least 5. Why that horse even agreed to get the on the trailer.... the sad thing is there were people in the group who worked at the barn, it wasn't like we sent a bunch of unfamiliar people out there and told them to load the brown one...
I make a list. I've long thought about making an essentials list and having it laminated for dry erase markers. My trailer stays packed with it's own first aid kit and spare halters etc. Our tack room isn't huge so I have another box in the trailer that holds my spare stuff that I don't use everyday, so I have extra girth, reins, etc. in case of emergency.
A water tank for my trailer may have been the best thing I ever invested in. My horse can be picky about water, so it's nice to know I have something on board he will drink. Plus not having to haul buckets is really really nice... |
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| Remember the horse when you leave the show to go home too! A friend of mine left his horse tied to the fence at a roping once...he thought his mom had loaded the horse, and his mom thought he had loaded the horse!
Seriously though...I always pack a first aid kit, tools for changing tires, water buckets, baler twine/duct tape/WD40, a toolbox with basic tools, bridle/saddle/saddle pad/leg boots or wraps, extra bridle, extra latigo and off billet...I have a long list!! Make sure the trailer spare is in good shape and aired up. It's a good idea to check the spare tire on your pickup as well. I have a "pre-loved" pickup, and I was 600 miles from home with a flat tire on the pickup when I found out half the pieces for the wrench to let the spare down were missing!
Growing up, before I was allowed to haul by myself, I had to learn how to change a tire on the pickup and the trailer, be able to give a horse a shot in the muscle or the vein, and bandage a leg. |
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Undercover Amish Mafia Member
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Location: Kansas | Someone disliked my toilet paper post 
I always have to have that in the trailer!!! |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 1131
| Don't forget your bridle! I have went 2 hours away to a barrel race to find I didn't grab my bridle. Ended up going to tractor supply to buy whatever crap they had and put her in her old bit which she always ran through. Big surprise, she find again. We got around first and ended back in the alley way. |
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Duct Tape Bikini Girl
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| Zip ties...all sizes. They are the last minute fix it alls. |
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