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Location: North Dakota | Love, love all the suggestions.
The shower part isn't a huge issues. I don't care about being stinky, but it's that "sticky" feeling you get when you are dirty. I can live with it though for 2 days. Baby wipes will work great though.
He ties really well. I'll probably just do that overnight. And make sure to walk him frequently throughout the two days to keep the circulation going.
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Sock Snob
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| Go,to camping world get you a tent that will srrap to your trailer. Get you a cowboy shower or eith make you one in the horse stall, with a pump and a ag tank that you put in back,of truck. I have seen a couple of people that use a tent the kind that unfolds and has screened sides and can sleep in trailer or use a couple bales of have and tarp. Then put your matress toppper on it. Go to,the big shows and look around. I have a lq and let several people use my shower and a lot of places actually have goood,showers. But overnight if you are clean when u leave and go home next day unless it is 100+ degress you can live without a shower.when i was younger i hqd a 2 horse with a dressing roon it was small i slept in that in a sleeping bag a bunch of times. I had long straight hair and no one knew i did not shower. I brought a lot of food bought 1 meal at the concession stand.
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  Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | I sleep in the truck and leave the horses tied out to the trailer or in the trailer, depending on the weather. |
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Location: NC | goldcard - 2014-05-14 3:35 PM Here are a few tricks we use to do when we use to rodeo "roughing it style". 5 gallon water jug, paint it black and set it in the sun.... makes for a nice warm bath. We would get two big buckets and soap up in one and then rinse off in the other. We later got a little RV water pump and would put the hose of it in the jug and made a "cowboy shower". It was way better than cold. I already mentioned the baby powder. Make sure your trailer doesn't have any leaks over your bed area.... I use to caulk my old trailer but the new "spray on stuff" you see on TV and can get at Wally World actually works great and you can get it in clear so it doesn't look bad if you happen to spray it over the edge some. An ice chest with goodies. Take some extra shaving in case it rains and your horse happens to be living in a mud hole.... won't dry it up but will help make it less of a mess.
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 Hugs to You
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | Kgirl - 2014-05-15 8:18 AM Flex Seal?
Yep - it's in the "as seen on TV" section. I think I also saw it at Dollar General and maybe Lowe's. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | My trailer only has a mattress with a few cabinets/counter. I use the arena showers and stall if possible. or tie out. The horses survive. :)
I do have a propane heater, but no A/C. Battery powered fans are your friend. Also, baby wipes. And a cooler. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | Wow, this thread is wesome! I only have a 2 horse slant BP, and I never imagined it would be do-able to stay with at overnight shows... nobody tell my husband.. I'm still hoping for a weekender package someday! |
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Extreme Veteran
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| I stayed in my truck at a 3 day show last month and am going to one this weekend. The only difference is I am staying in my trailer this time. I plan on bringing my panels and keeping my horses on grass this weekend rather then sticking them in stalls. They aren't used to being stalled so being "out" will be better. Luckily the facility has showers. But Ive stayed in a tent before and not been able to shower. The wash rack was my friend :) I bring a cooler and eat at the concession stand too. |
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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | I very rarely buy stalls for my horses and the only time all year I get a hotel room is for rodeo finals when you're there for 3 days straight.
My horses are all used to being tied out overnight, but I don't tie them very short. In fact, Chance laid down one night at Lincoln and was completely comfy. That said, I make sure to tie them long at home and hang out to watch what they do and how they react if they step over a lead rope before I do it overnight. Joker and Chance are both old pros and if they step on their lead rope they will stand there and nicker until someone comes to untangle them. It was very nice last summer that I very rarely had to tie out because I was usually within a couple hours of Matt's place and could take them there after rodeos so they were turned out in a familiar place.
I try to take each of them for several walks and I always give them the opportunity to roll, whether that is in a warmup pen or another dirt spot that I can find. My horses LOVE to roll.
I rodeoed one month in 2011 by sleeping in the backseat of my pickup and tying my horses out or one night I put them in the stock pens that weren't being used at the rodeo arena. My trailer now is a gooseneck with a dressing room and mattress in the nose. I've hauled a generator and run a heater, but in the summer I've just taken battery powered fans and scrimped on sleep it was super hot. I also try to park in the shade so the trailer isn't a total oven!
The travel panels are great but Matt's horses got their heads through the panels, picked them up off the re-bar he had anchoring the pen to the ground and went two trailers down to visit with Becky's horses one night at Lincoln, so the panels aren't perfect if your horse is pushy. I will never ask for panels for Chance because he'd be GONE in 10 minutes. He has to push the limits and he'd end up moving the panels all around the rodeo grounds. lol. |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | I slept in my mega cab for a few years before we bought our lq (last fall). I would pack a cooler with my food and lots and lots of blankets. Was tough, but helped me to save for our trailer. And I definitely appreciate my lq alot now! Feel like im in the hilton every trip out ;) |
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Location: Arkansas | Portable toilets are your friend!!! 
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Location: North Dakota | r_beau - 2014-05-14 3:00 PM Nateracer - 2014-05-14 2:40 PM Now we have a matress in our gooseneck, it has no living quarters, but we use a bale in a bag as a couch, and have a dorm fridge and microwave from walmart. What did you do to get electrical in your trailer for the dorm fridge and microwave?
I can certainly live off foods that don't need to be refridgerated or heated for 48 hours, so it wouldn't be a necessity. Only thing that would be nice is to have a freezer of some sort because I do like to use ice boots on my horse after a run (that I normally keep in a cooler). Not sure if I could get them to "re-freeze" by just dumping new ice into a cooler (if it's really hot out) although he could go without for one day.
Any recommendations on a portable electric fence? (or at least the source, I can get the wire and posts myself) He is used to electric fence and respects it so that wouldn't be a problem. I would just really like to give him the option to lay down .... although who knows, he might not lay down anyway.
I got my electric fence and step-in posts from Fleet Farm. I bet any Runnings or TSC would have them as well. I have the yellow/black electrical tape. It works great! We cut it down so we only need to haul with enough to make a nice sized pen instead of the entire roll. We do have a battery powered charger but it is probably 10 years old and isn't very reliable anymore. It hardly ever turns on anymore. We tried new batteries but still no luck. So now since we do have a LQ we purchased a small plug-in charger.
Freeze lots of water bottles or I re-use Gatorade bottles and fill them with water to freeze. That way when your ice melts at the end of the weekend you have some nice cold water and nothing in your cooler gets wet and soggy.
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| If they respect an electric fence, I would say that would be your best bet! We have a small fence charger that hooks up to a battery - vehicle or lawnmower type. We would set the battery on the ground, hang the charger from the trailer jack handle, and use a tent stake or an extra electric fence post as a ground. We've used it at home too when we rotate the horses around to give pastures a break. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Arkansas | This year, I haven't used our living quarters trailer because of fuel mileage, ability to get in and out of places, and only hauling one horse. We put a carpet down in the front of our stock trailer and have our cooler, saddles, hay, etcs. in there. Hubby is a saddle bronc rider so he can put all of his equipment in there without fear of it getting rained on and has room to stretch out before going to the arena.I have small children so the portable potty is a MAJOR convenience with them. I am only hauling one horse to rodeos so he has the back half of the trailer. He can remove his own halter and any other horse next to him so I usually leave him on the trailer at night. I was worried what people would think of me for that, but they would think worse of me if I knowingly tied him up and something happened. He lays down, eats, and drinks fine in there. I have been able to put a bucket of water in when we leave and he can drink going up and down the road. It has not spilled and is usually still holding water when we arrive. I grew up in a rodeo family where my three sisters and I slept in the back of a suburban taking washcloth baths and eating out of a cooler every weekend. It was a GREAT childhood. Sometimes convenience doesn't always make the memories or appreciation that roughing it does! |
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Expert
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Location: Oklahoma | Or buddy up with a friend with a nice living quarters like I do! lol. We take my rig which is alot shorter than hers on the barrel races close by and no sleepovers. On the sleepovers we take hers. Figure as far as wear and tear should average out. (hopfully :)) ) |
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Extreme Veteran
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| Just Bring It - 2014-05-15 11:58 AM r_beau - 2014-05-14 3:00 PM Nateracer - 2014-05-14 2:40 PM Now we have a matress in our gooseneck, it has no living quarters, but we use a bale in a bag as a couch, and have a dorm fridge and microwave from walmart. What did you do to get electrical in your trailer for the dorm fridge and microwave?
I can certainly live off foods that don't need to be refridgerated or heated for 48 hours, so it wouldn't be a necessity. Only thing that would be nice is to have a freezer of some sort because I do like to use ice boots on my horse after a run (that I normally keep in a cooler). Not sure if I could get them to "re-freeze" by just dumping new ice into a cooler (if it's really hot out) although he could go without for one day.
Any recommendations on a portable electric fence? (or at least the source, I can get the wire and posts myself) He is used to electric fence and respects it so that wouldn't be a problem. I would just really like to give him the option to lay down .... although who knows, he might not lay down anyway.
Freeze lots of water bottles or I re-use Gatorade bottles and fill them with water to freeze. That way when your ice melts at the end of the weekend you have some nice cold water and nothing in your cooler gets wet and soggy.
Now, why I did not think of that!? Awesome idea!!!! |
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Duct Tape Bikini Girl
Posts: 2554
| I've been wondering if those $300 ice chests that keep beer cold for 3 days would keep ice boots frozen? Do any of you use one?
For some sleep I just recline the front seat of my truck and put my gun beside me.  |
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Location: North Louisiana | I got a weekender with a porta potty, cowboy shower and sink. When I camp I heat water on a propane stove take a sponge bath in sink ( it drains on ground, gray water) Baby wipes or Porta potty is nice! before that used a bucket with kitty litter for middle of night emergency. I tie my horse They don't mind I make sure to fill haybag at night as full as it goes or he will just bang it while I try to sleep!
My favorite hot weather food is making pasta salad to eat, it packs well. Cold weinies and cold saukraut is awesome too! Cold weather warm soups or chili up on stove!
It does not take much to be comfortable! Just have fun!
Check out Horse Trailer Conversions on Facebook, awesome ideas on everything on horse trailers from roughing it in a bumper pull or stock trailer to the fanciest rigs!! |
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 Certified Snake Wrangler
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Location: North MS | I had a 3H slant with a 2' short wall. My husband installed basic electrical that consisted of a male end outlet running out under the trailer nose and the wiring on the inside ran to the shortwall where the tiny breaker box was. The goal was to later put a cabinet there and it would cover up the box and wires. We spray foamed the interior and that made it a lot cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. I had towels for curtains over the windows. Carried a cooler. I had an LED plug in light set I hung across the back slant for lighting that I plugged in. Over the weekends I had enough room to step inside and change/undress before hopping up top into bed.
All of the places I go to for overnight events do not allow tie outs. So that isn't an option for me. Last year I upgraded to an 8' shortwall with living quarters and I am thankful every time I use the fridge, microwave, sink etc. LOVE IT! I only have one trailer so it goes to every show. I'm constantly improving tiny things like the the side marker lights that were in rough shape (that took some extra long rivets btw!). I found out that the wire UNDER the trailer had broken and wasn't re-charging my generator battery (I bought new wire and ran it just this past weekend).
But if I were you- I would add a basic electrical system so you could run a basic extension cord and have a fan or light. |
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