Any one have one Bloomfields, Kevin Parker, Boss or Equihunter

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Kevin Parker - Equihunter - Boss - bloomfields

I am in the market for a 3.5 or 3.9 ton smallish box with a small day living. Either new or a couple of year old.

Which one is the best for travelling a kicking horse

Pictures of horse in trailer etc would be fantastic. I am in cornwall so I am unable to hire one to look at....

Any help appreachiated.

Rockymountain
 
I have a boss , never had bad kicker in it though, it does have quite strong bulkhead. Horses travel backwards, and they seen to like this, I've not seen any used ones for sale yet! The factory is in flint north Wales, they have sold a few to Cornwall area.
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I visited my Bloomfields 3.5 tonne box yesterday, which is in production. I looked at loads of boxes, as my horse is usually VERY well behaved, but once in a blue moon will go crackers with excitement, and canters to the front of his stall, bucking out behind like a silly a**e, reversing back up, rearing up and repeating! It has only happened a few times (when he thinks he hears hounds) but is quite involved when he blows.

The Bloomfields Professional was the first of the small boxes I felt was strong enough. I particularly like that there is no breast bar, as I just KNOW Jay would consider a breast bar to be an activity centre for his amusement whilst travelling. I have seen too many horses go over breast bars, even some quite sensible ones.

There is a very small living, but if all goes wrong it is all designed so that the horse can come out of the front, easy for one person to do too.

As far as the buckaroo Jay is concerned the basic design is safe with reinforced bulkhead and kick boards all round, but they have also adapted their design to make us safer.

Firstly I have dispensed with the little window between horse and cab. There were bars, but I just would not feel comfortable sitting there with a window! There is an option to have cctv to still have contact with the horse.

The ramp is 4ft high as standard, but mine will be 9" higher, so even a big buck should not come over the ramp. Because of this I have taken the option of a super doper set of ramp attachments, that does not have springs or gas rams (?) but has something else. I confess I don't know what the something else is, but it was very easy to raise the ramp, good news for me as I have a dodgy disk in my back.

The top doors are also in 2 halves, and the back one is being designed so it will lock securely shut on its own. If Jay is having a fit on a hot day I can open one door for ventilation, but keep the back one shut for flying hooves!

If the situation is bad there is the option to shut oth doors, as the roof is fully insulated, we have 4 windows to the horse area, plus an electric fan, so he would not expire even if shut in.

It sounds like I am doing my horse a dis-service, the mad Jay has only happened 4 times in 3 years (the last episode was well over a year ago), but I believe in safety by design, and as I usually travel on my own I need to know that whatever happens I can keep us both safe.

I found that some manufacturers dismissed my concerns, after all it has not happened for a long time, but Helen at Bloomfields listened, and as she has competition horses herself she did not underestimate the force and velocity a 16.1hh horse can produce if provoked!!!
 
I've got a Kevin parker and love it. Never had a bad kicker in but a couple of bad travellers one who was literally nearly falling over but the lorry still felt stable and not unsafe.

Kevin is really helpful and was obviously concerned about safety when we went to have a look around. If you read the website you can see this too all the materials they use are used for strength and safety while giving as much pay load as possible. Think ours is 1.22 t on a 3.5t box.

You don't see many come up second hand though. Definitely recommend them though.
 
Hi Red1 many thanks for your post, may I ask why you went for the professional and not legacy sl or se model.

I was worried about buying a none branded horsebox locally still am, problem I have is finding anyone down here that has something that I can look at, other problem is hiring one to make sure the horse will load in a sideways loader. Has the Bloomfield box got a side entrance and also a rear exit. Worries me in case of an accident the box tips on its side where the door is. Nightmare......

Could you pm the price you paid and also the wait time

Many thanks
 
Hi, the professional is the one with no breast bar, which I always have concerns over with a lively horse, and the partition is built to restrain a bull of a horse! I believe they are also known as "Stallion Boxes" as in safe to carry two stallions. The partitions are big and airy, and have bars over the partition.

In case of accident the front opens up with a sturdy shoot bolt system, and the horse has direct exit out of the back door, which is wide but maybe a bit restricted in head room.

They have a web site, which I do not know the web address of offhand, but found it when I was buying on Google.

I ordered mine in January, it is being started this week, ready in June :-) :-D

The price is no secret, it is on the web site, or they will give an immediate quote on whatever you need. They sourced the chassis for me at a better price than I could have got it, and the extras are printed on a pricing sheet.

I had a lot of different things, and if it was just a different way of doing something (such as having the bulkhead in a different place, and an offset partition) they did not charge extra, even though it will mean my box going for individual type approval, which I think will cost them more.

I know they have sourced some good secondhand chassis for other people, and the good thing is that it is a quality new build on the chassis, not a conversion, so even if the chassis is second hand the whole of the box the horse travels in is new. I would have preferred this, but I have a dodgy hip and back so need an auto box, and they are hard to source secondhand, so they found us a new one.
 
Excellent many thanks - just spoken to them and quoting a December/Jan delivery time, as they say a good box is worth waiting for. So need to actually have a look at one quickly to put the order in. Do you know of anyone down in the south west cornwall area that has one ?
 
any more solid light horsebox - got it down Bloomfields and Kevin Parker

No GRP anywhere in the horsebox solid bulkhead , wide exit door ,side loading,
 
if it helps, I had a 7.5T by kevin parker and my old boy used to try to kick the heck out of it - I was worried he was going to go through the tack locker but he didnt even leave a mark.

I saw one of his new 3.9T Aeos lorries when I was down there last week and it looked fab. I can't wait for him to finish my Helios.
Can't comment on the Bloomfields as I haven't seen one.
 
I saw my first Bloomfields box yesterday and I must say that I was very impressed. The horse being travelled was a shade over 17hh and had plenty of headroom. It was on the whole very well thought out and a very smart box.
 
miss_c said:
I saw my first Bloomfields box yesterday and I must say that I was very impressed. The horse being travelled was a shade over 17hh and had plenty of headroom. It was on the whole very well thought out and a very smart box.
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Where did u go to see one ? Cannot find anyone that has one
 
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