Cobwebs leave or lose?

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Been getting the stables ready for horses to come back in after summer nights out & the stables are full of cobwebs.

Do you remove all traces as the dust builds up on them or do you leave spiders & webs as fly catchers??

What do you all do & how do you reach right up into the roof space??
 
Loose - absolutely the lot, like it to be tidy and clean (If I wouldn't like to live in there then I don't want our mares in it and I won't enjoy time spent in there with them, which in the winter is a decent amount of time!).
 
Wow!!

Why the spider hatred? They are there to catch the flies after all - I love to see the cobwebs - especially full of pony eating flies- I really don't get how they are a fire hazard....:eek:
 
We have to loose as insisted on for riding school inspection. They burn quickly in a fire so can speed fire quicker. however, we have lots of flies so at times it would be nice to keep them!!!
 
I have this fab extending tool with a big nylon fibred duster (looks like a chimney sweep's brush) on the end. I bought it at Burghley 2yrs ago. It extends really far,to the top of our American barn roof.:) Can't remember the make of it(it says it on it) but its brilliant-well made and the brush head is interchangeable-they sold all sorts of other heads(like squeegee ones for high windows).
 
I was told to leave them as they help catch the flies but after finding out my boy has a possible dust allergy, I hit his stable with a broom and dustpan and cleared most of them out (that was until a couple of pesky spiders made their presence known and sacred the stuffing out of me :eek: (hate them) so not going back to finish the job until I have pull body protection (aka nuclear meltdown bodysuit) plus flamethrower or something as lethel that will kill anything with more than four legs at a great distance. Failing that will beg the OH to do the dirty work for me.
Envy those of you without Arachnophobia.
 
I bring them down regularly, so that the spiders can build nice clean fresh ones as I don't think the dusty ones catch many flies. I love spiders and am careful to not hurt any as I remove their webs.
 
I remove the ones I can reach with my broom only as they gather the dust which sets me off sneezing and wheezing ! Re spiders ... if you put chestnuts around spiders go away , its some smell/chemical that is given off that deters them . Now it could be that the time of the year when you can get chestnuts ( not horse chestnuts) spiders are tending to be getting tucked up for winter and its a coincidence but if you hate spiders its worth a try . Obviously dont leave them for horses to eat !!!! DOH !
 
I have removed mine now after reading you other HH's.
I hate this time of year when the big hairy ones are tapping for a mate (spiders not men!!)
I had one on my sock yesterday luckily my JRT, who is on a diet & will eat anything, did just that & swiped it off me.

JRT's have so many uses ;)
 
I go and get an extra full size headcollar. I lead the spiders out with it and then stand on a trug and attack the webs with a broom.
 
I take Henry Hoover into the stables and blitz them all :p Henry's extensions get right up into the eaves of the stables without me having to put too much effort in!
 
Never heard of them being a fire hazard but they aare great at stopping bleeding, gatherone up and place over wound and it seals it fast.

I remove in winter but let them back in during summer as they help keep flies down.
 
Tnavas said:
Never heard of them being a fire hazard but they aare great at stopping bleeding, gatherone up and place over wound and it seals it fast.

I remove in winter but let them back in during summer as they help keep flies down.
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That has to be the most interesting thing to do with a cobweb ever ever.
I would hate to see how big your spiders are in NZ, I thought it was just OZ that had big buggers!!
 
I knew about spiderwebs long before I moved to New Zealand
Using spiderwebs to control bleeding has been known for many centuries.

According the Wikipedia the reason is - Spider webs are rich in vitamin K, which can be effective in clotting blood. Webs were used several hundred years ago as gauze pads to stop an injured person's bleeding

Fortunately for me NZ doesn't have ginormous spiders, an Aussie import the 'White Tail Spider' has managed to get here and thrive - bite can be poisonous depending on what other spider it's been eating. The 'Daddy Long Legs Spider' has a very tiny body but long long legs and venom very poisonous but is too small to be able to bite people. If the white tails have been feasting on them then their bite can be quite nasty.
 
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