Best way to label your horse stuff?!!

[AnyChance]

What is the best way to label your things like wheelbarrow, brush, buckets etc.
I Just want to make sure I can keep track of everything so no..... mix ups occur!!!!

 

[Cowpony]

Buy a matchpot of paint and paint your name on both sides of the barrow.
A thick black marker pen will mark your broom, but to keep tools safe a combination lock with a wire is the only thing that works IME. For stuff like bridle, headcollar, girth, haynets etc I use the plastic name tags you can get from shoe repairers.

 

[AnyChance]

Thanks cowpony. Any particular paint type? Do they do one for plastic ?

 

[Cowpony]

I just buy the normal emulsion. You may have to redo it occasionally but it lasts long enough that you aren't doing it regularly. For smaller stuff tippex works well too.

 

[Cowpony]

But I do make sure I track my stuff down every weekend and put it back in the right place

 

[Cowpony]

Oh, and forgot to say, if you are competing do remember to take the plastic name tags off your tack before you start, especially if you are showing. Not a good look!!

 

[AnyChance]

Haha good advice, that is probably something I would do too!!

 

[abracadabra]

Most effective way of avoiding 'mix ups' is locking away anything not actually in use. Ive seen a cool tool safe as well, which is like a 4 sided box that you attach to a wall, open at top and bottom, and you put your tools in it and lock the door on the front.

 

[L&M]

When I had liveries, I put a loop of red insulating tape around bucket handles, on mucking out equipment and barrow etc, so was easily identifiable.

I found if I finshed the loop by sticking the tape to itself, it stayed on a lot better, and despite stopping livery a couple of years ago, most of my stuff is still marked.

 

[STRIKER]

Get a paint pen which they use for covering up small chips on cars, better than brushes and spritis for cleaning the brush etc

 

[Shay]

Brilliant ideas all! We use Sharpies - but car touch up paint is going to work better. For haynets we use the big school name labels you get for sports kit and stitch them through the net. Stops our nets going for a wander - full and empty! Also we use sheep ear tags for feed buckets - really durable. The whole yard uses them so breakfasts are easily identifiable to the correct horse.

 

[AnyChance]

Brilliant ideas all! We use Sharpies - but car touch up paint is going to work better. For haynets we use the big school name labels you get for sports kit and stitch them through the net. Stops our nets going for a wander - full and empty! Also we use sheep ear tags for feed buckets - really durable. The whole yard uses them so breakfasts are easily identifiable to the correct horse.

Brilliant

 

[Dumbo]

I've used a black or silver permanent marker to put my initials on everything

 

[Tnavas]

What is the best way to label your things like wheelbarrow, brush, buckets etc.
I Just want to make sure I can keep track of everything so no..... mix ups occur!!!!

Paint wheelbarrow with a quantity of horrendously coloured paint! Paint broom handles, Shovel handles and as an added extra I put cable ties in strategic places, do them up really tight and remove the loose end and they are very hard to remove unless you have a very sharp knife

Grooming kit with wooden backs I would sand back the glaze, write my name in permanent marker then repaint with varnish.

Plastic buckets etc - take to them with a hot soldering iron and melt your name into the plastic. Paint doesn't seem to stick. Again I use cable ties around handles to make it easily visible that they are not orphaned and in need of rescuing.

 

[OldNag]

I use coloured parcel tape. I can spot my stuff a mile off!
Not on tack obviously. That gets locked away so doesn't need labelling.

 

[AnyChance]

Again I use cable ties around handles to make it easily visible that they are not orphaned and in need of rescuing.

Lol love it!

 

[catkin]

When away for the day at a show or something try the sneaky approach.
Take the bare minimum of scabby half-dead equipment - water bucket with a slow leak,binder-twine haynet, rug with mismatched buckles and patches, unmarked spray containers, that sort of thing. You can then concentrate on looking after your horse and tack without worrying about anything else.

 

[WelshD]

Sheep ear tags with a telephone number on are good for putting through the straps on rugs just in case the horse wanders when its dark in the winter, you do need an applicator for them though

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Thanks cowpony. Any particular paint type? Do they do one for plastic ?

use acrylic paint and maybe some stencils from homebase where you get patterns and letters

these pens work on wood etc>>>http://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/advancedsearchresults.aspx?query=spectrum-noir from hobby craft and are refillable

 

[Tern]

Liquid tip-ex workeda treat and shed key tags. You can buy like 100 for 1 quid off eBay.

 

[Annagain]

Most of us have black rubber feed skips at our yard so we each chose a different colour electrical tape to wrap around the handle. It's now spread to yard tools as they are all kept in the one place so we can spot our own or at least know whose we're borrowing! (We're that sort of yard , we're all adults, we all get on well and borrow each other's stuff without any problems as we all put it back!) Works really well and I haven't needed to replace mine in about 7 years.