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Location: northeast | Does anyone unload their horse from the escape door! Usually the first slot on horse trailer! Letting them walk straight off Instead of letting them back out or turn around to unload? Just curious and is it safe? |
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I just read the headlines
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| I don't, I am afraid they's hang a hip since the escape door is somewhat narrower on my trailer, plus depending on what truck I am hauling with, the drop to the ground is higher than the rear. |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Absolutely not. It's designed for an emergency escape route only. |
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 Too Skinny
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | Junior - 2017-02-15 1:06 PM
Does anyone unload their horse from the escape door! Usually the first slot on horse trailer! Letting them walk straight off Instead of letting them back out or turn around to unload? Just curious and is it safe?
Are you having issues getting one to back out? |
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 Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | HOLY unsafe. Escape doors are not wide enough with the door framing to unload. There is also usually a big threshold for them to step over. They are not made for loading/unloading horses. |
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Location: northeast | No! Just to clarify I personally have not and would not! But, I have always been curious if people do! |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Never would I unload my horse threw an escape door, that is so dangerous for the horse to have to step out, its built for human use not horses. Not safe at all.  |
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| I wrecked with a trailer years back and the back was hanging off a small ditch, we took the dividers out and unloaded 3 head out the escape door but it was used as just that, an escape door. I wouldn't ever use it just because |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | NO WAY! |
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  Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | Definitely not! |
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Location: Up and over to the right | Mini pony being used as bait to get other horses on - yes. Full size horse - no. Emergency doors are for PEOPLE emergencies. |
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 Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Not a bit safe. We sold a horse to TX and the idiot pulls up to her place and jumps him out the escape door. He skins his hind legs up from the pastern to the hock. |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | I've done it. Mine was in the first stall and the horse behind him (my friend's) wouldn't back out. We had to tear out the collapsible saddle racks so there was enough room for him to turn around. In the meantime mine stepped out the front and we were on our way. Our Sooner had a pretty wide escape door. |
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Veteran
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| If you were parked to make it not a huge jump down, I think you'd be fine depending on the size of the stall and door and horse. I also wouldn't try it with a nervous horse that might panic. Once we decided to take a another horse after we had already loaded 4 in our back 4 slants. He was a small horse (about 14.1 and maybe 900lbs) and a ranch horse to boot who had done and seen just about everything. We pulled up to make it a smaller jump and he jumped right in, no biggie. Our trailer has a big escape door and front stall and its not at much of an angle either. |
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Veteran
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| wish I knew how to load a video here but we have a mare that is more dangerous to back out of a trailer than to just let her calmly step out the escape door. The escape door is her preferred method not ours but it works for all of us |
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Location: KS | Only once. I had a mare who would not back out of the trailer (does now-because of this, lol). Was headed to a roping and my traveling partner (who I had traveled with for years and I thought she knew better!) loaded my horse while I was loading saddle, tack, rope bags). About 15 min from the roping I asked which stall my horse was in. She had put her in the last hole and her rear tack did not collapse. Tried getting her to back out and about had a huge wreck. Her horse was in the first stall so we unloaded him out the escape door, took the 2 stall dividers out and got the mare turned around. We did look like a bunch of team ropers with the whole trailer taken apart and laying in the parking lot. |
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Expert
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Location: Bandera, TX | Yep, on numerous occasions. Everytime I have a trailer load of goats or calves.
Done it on the horse trailer and the stock trailer.
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Expert
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| Never. |
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 Expert
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | I think those are meant for humans to escape through.
Never tried it with a horse. I have been stuck in front of one and wished I'd have unlatched that sucker, tho. It was in a stock trailer, not a slant. |
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