Iluvxcountry
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What do you think is better horse lorry or trailer?
please post any experiences you have had with companies or dealers.
please post any experiences you have had with companies or dealers.
Box or trailer?
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mon
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I have only had trailers bought new so know they have sound floor etc and lading up gently slope always got mine in on own, if had to have lorry be an old version with all probems of being tempermental and a heavy drive but also use trailer for a sheepdog and duck demos i do and lorry bit OTT for a dozen ducks!
Luci07
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Depends on so many factors - so if you travel long distances, would routinely want to take more than one horse then think that at lorry is safer - but it is of course a lot more expensive. Friends with lorries normally budget an extra £1K a year for tax, plating etc. My trailer costs me an extra £80 for servicing per year (plus my insurance) and I use it most weekends but with one horse. Could take a second but am slightly chicken due to the horrendous hill upto our yard!. If you were near the M25 circle I would check carefully as well if you wanted to travel inside the circle (and we are talking right on the edge of the M25 circle) as lorries pay a whopping £200 per day if they enter this zone.
If money was no object, then I would choose a lorry for convenience, no hitching up, comfort but in the bright light of day, then my trailer wins hands down!
If money was no object, then I would choose a lorry for convenience, no hitching up, comfort but in the bright light of day, then my trailer wins hands down!
irish_only
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This. We've had lorries and loved them. The bliss of being able to walk from the cab to the horses, take more than two somewhere without major borrowing/begging/organisation, somewhere dry and warm to change, stay over at shows, eat and drink etc etc.
But the cost is huge. Depreciation is usually pretty frightening, running repairs (and I have a man who can) testing/plating is a trial and fuel prices are not helping at all. I always said I would never go back to a trailer, but we have, for all the above reasons.
Now- if someone would like to gift me a lovely lorry, nice and new, complete with the budget to run it................................................