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Location: Muskogee, OK | Hi everyone,
I have a 3 horse slant and usually use the first stall of my trailer for extra storage and am wondering if anyone has any ideas or suggestions that they have tried for making a make-shift full divider so stuff does not slide underneath (or nosy horses dont pick at stuff under the divider while driving).
I was trying to think of a way to maybe tack a piece of rubber mat or something of the sort to the bottom of that first divider? But I am curious if anyone has tried anything else that has worked. I do know that I could just purchase a full divider but that isn't in the budget at the moment.
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| Diddo. I would love some ideas |
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Mrs. Txdad
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Location: the fantasy txdad married | For temporary, I've used a piece of plywood just leaned up on the first stall side. Hay, shavings, etc kept it standing straight.
For permanent, I screwed a heavy rubber mat to the divider. |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | 1left2right - 2014-05-25 2:00 PM For temporary, I've used a piece of plywood just leaned up on the first stall side. Hay, shavings, etc kept it standing straight.
For permanent, I screwed a heavy rubber mat to the divider.
We just screwed the plywood into the first divider. We left around 6" showing on the bottom. |
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 Not Afraid to Work
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| A friend of mine also used plywood. |
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 No Name Nancy
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Location: never in the right place | my friend also used plywood |
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  Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | We used u bolts to hold up plywood. Works great, I can remove it if I need to haul 3 horses and put back if I need more storage. Maybe some day I will have mangers, or a 4-horse with a stud divider, but for now this have been working for 3 years. |
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Location: The South | We used a thick piece of rubber, we got the idea from a website I think it was Todd redwrench? |
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Location: British Columbia | Instead of plywood, maybe puck board? Just so no splinters come out from rubbing. |
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| I currently have a lighter stall mat bolted to my divider - in a little 2 horse slant - we covered the bolt ends with vet wrap as a quick fix. I was hauling a mare that liked to pick fights and try to kick others under the divider.
In the past, we have used plywood and zip tied it to the divider so we could easily remove it - this was in a 4 horse in just the first stall. worked like a charm.
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Location: Sperry, OK | hammer_time - 2014-05-25 4:05 PM 1left2right - 2014-05-25 2:00 PM For temporary, I've used a piece of plywood just leaned up on the first stall side. Hay, shavings, etc kept it standing straight.
For permanent, I screwed a heavy rubber mat to the divider. We just screwed the plywood into the first divider. We left around 6" showing on the bottom.
This is exactly what is in my trailer. |
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 On the Countdown
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Location: Texas | I put plywood up and screwed it to the divider and painted it. Been there for about 14 years. |
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Location: Here | 3/4 exterior plywood Cut 2 holes in it where you can run rubber tarp straps through it. Cut plywood to fit in slant then take tarp straps and run through holes over divider and put together on inside of side of storage |
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 Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Ditto to all the ideas. If you are worried about splinters, you could hang a very thin mat on the side of the plywood facing the horse. |
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| You can hang one of these to touch the floor or even a couple of inches dragging on the floor .... drill you some starter holes on one end and screw towards the other end to keep it tight and use short self tapping steel screws in the bottom frame of the divider with washers on the rubber side to prevent screws from ever pulling thru the rubber ...
You can find these at any car parts store or TSC ...
http://www.tractorsupply.com/en/store/dee-zeereg%3B-universal-bed-m...
Edited by BARRELHORSE USA 2014-05-28 12:35 AM
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Location: Ohio | missroselee - 2014-05-26 11:37 AM
Ditto to all the ideas. If you are worried about splinters, you could hang a very thin mat on the side of the plywood facing the horse.
My husband sprayed mine down with a few cans of left over spray on bed-liner (rhino liner type) to help keep splinters down. It worked really well! Kept moisture and pee from soaking into it and I didn't have to worry about getting it wet when spraying out the trailer.
Edited by GrittyCowgirl 2014-05-28 1:35 AM
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| I used to do the ply wood but it scratched the crap out of my trailer...
I'm thinking about doing one of these but i dont know much about them or the cost...
http://www.westernlegacysales.com/paddie.php
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