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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
This is a horse chat thread where we share ideas, ask for input from other horsemen, and talk about our riding and horse-keeping. We have a lot of different kinds of riders and horses, and a lot to share. In the previous threads we have had a great time talking through lessons, training, horse lamenesses, illnesses and pregnancies... and always sharing pictures and stories.
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Yeah - but you have air conditioning. We don’t even have AC in the trucks, let alone the house :~)
If it wasn’t for my trees I’d be hurtin. Rosie will not want to be in her place this evening.
My trailer is getting new boards. I didn’t like the cracks I was starting to see. I’m trying to get it ready in case I need to get them out of here in a hurry. I’m still looking for a “living quarters” but this works for now. I need to get a couple of new tires too.
Yeah, no AC in the house would be pretty unbearable, even at 82*. 78* in the house is about the limit for me, and even that is too warm to get much sleep. I can take it in the car for short periods because you can roll the windows down, but I wouldn’t wanna have to do that all the time. Especially if you want to look nice (and smell nice) when you get someplace. It would be basically uninhabitable around here if it weren’t for AC.
Are you going to use pressure-treated boards? That’s what I’ve got in mine (2x8s I think). They were in there when I bought the trailer nearly 20 years ago and they look as good now as they did then. I did have a couple of extra angle iron supports welded under the floor when I got it though, so you might want to consider doing that while you’ve got the floor out. My FIL did mine, but I wouldn’t think that it would cost that much more to have them added by somebody else. I had them put right under where the horse’s feet would go because I’ve always had a horror of having a foot go through the floor.
I think so. I just called to check on how things are going and was told that they are welded in and look good and why do I want to replace them. They are two by x8s but on the right at the back 2 have a crack. Why don’t they just put floors under the wood?
I spent a couple summers in Phoenix, so I know what real heat is, dry heat or not.... but they live in AC all summer. When they come to visit here, I think they’d say 90 with no AC is plenty hot. ;~)
That’s a rather nifty design, isn’t it? Is there a manger that is open or missing in the pictures? Surely you wouldn’t want them eating your saddle on the way ;~) Can you add more vents? Maybe I’m just already thinking heat stroke, but it seems like that one little vent in the feed door isn’t enough for your climate.
You mean why don't they put a metal floor under the wood floor? Probably because it would hold water and rot the wood. I can't believe that the boards are welded into your trailer! Surely whoever built it would have accounted for the need to replace the boards at some point. Mine has a U-channel that the back end of the boards fit into, but the front edge is held down by a strip of angle iron and some carriage bolts. You can remove the bolts and angle iron and pry up the front edge, then slide the back edge forward out of the U-channel. When I replaced the plywood siding on the inside walls of mine the floor had to come out first so that's how I know. But all trailers are made a little different, so you never know until you get into it.
I told them to hold off until my husband and I can get over there. I don’t want to start messing with the welding. Why does life always have to be so complicated?
In this one you can see the right-hand manger bars and saddle rack pretty good. The access door is partly open too...
Oh, there is a pop-up vent in the center of the top too. The windows on each side in the back also slide and you can remove the top halves of the back doors. But all that would let in a lot of dust if you were traveling on dirt roads a lot like I do. But you’re right, you wouldn’t want them to stay in there for very long if the trailer wasn’t moving.
OK - those show how it works. That’s pretty nifty. :~)
I thought it was about the handiest looking thing I’d ever seen, for a 2-horse. I’ve seen several of them at the horse camp and of course I had to go ask the person how they liked it and they all were just crazy about it.
The only thing they should’ve done that they didn’t was to put the rubber kick-guard on the panel in front of the manger and on the bottom half of each access door because every trailer that I looked in was all skined up right there where the horse either lost his balance and hit it with his hoof or just pawed it. It would be easy enough to add though. Just get some cheap mats and glue them up with Liquid Nails then put some pop-rivets through it for added support.
Do you usually feed on the way? If you did, I’d wonder if you wouldn’t want to put up something... screen or something, to keep them from pushing hay debris into the center and blowing in on the saddles.
A sealer and drain holes? It just seems that horses stepping thru worries a lot of people.
Something we noticed the other day, and I sure wish I had your high power zooms. There's a large nest in the crown of one of the firs in the yard that lost it's top. I zoomed in at well as I could. It's not big enough to be an eagle nest, but maybe a smaller bird of prey?
We've been watching... haven't seen anything coming and going from it yet.
Do you dead-head impatiens?
Could it be a squirrels nest?
Becky
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