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A few of them (ok, most of them tbh) irritate the yard staff by being messy, never forking up their muck and trailing hay/straw all over the yard but we have a bit of a moan about the worst offenders and leave it at that.

BUT.... yesterday went to muck out my own pony, looked all over for my wheelbarrow and found it in the DIY barn, outside someone's stable and full of muck. AGHR WHY DO THIS. It is not only lazy but SOOOOOO selfish. Why do I want to empty someone elses muck out of my own wheelbarrow before I can use it???????

Today the other yard girl couldn't find one of the yard wheelbarrows for ages... once again it turned up in the DIY barn outside the same stable, full of muck again. Why would you do this??????? Where do people find the nerve?

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Sorry, had to get that off my chest. I feel better now.
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have to say (will probably get some rubbish for this) but your post above is the exact reason our yard no longer takes DIY'd we only have one who is amazing fixes anything he sees is broken even if it isnt his! like the roof started coming off in the rain at the weekend so he got a ladder and fixed it!
 
our yard is only DIY, and i myself am a DIY but we have SO MANY people like that down at our yard, i think there is probably 3/4 people down there who dont leave all theyre **** around the yard all the time, it annoys me so much.

AND when they make such a mess and dont sweep up, So I have to sweep up the mess, I didnt make. >;(
 
both my loan horses are DIY's and i hate using other peoples stuff and i moaned to indies owner to get a wheelbarrow of her own and she did :P and im a self obsessed sweeper so i cant leave the yard untidy
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but some of the people on full livery (full is every day except sunday) are so annoying, they come down and put their horses in the corral, let them eat other peoples hay, make a mess and leave it and blame it on someone else! one girl refuses to sweep because apparantly it hurts her back (join the club!)

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your post above is the exact reason our yard no longer takes DIY'd

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When my boss talks about them, you would think they were a strange and slightly unpredicatable foriegn species He ends his stories with a great sign, shakes his head and says "and that is DIY liveries for you"
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When I fulfil my life ambition to run my own small livery yard I swear on my life I will never ever have any DIYers on it. In my experience they generally fall into two categories
1) lazy and thoughtless making a terrible mess
2) insanely judgemental and tidy, moaning constantly about mess and insinuating that not cleaning up after yourself is tantamount to neglet and should be reported to ILPH or similar!

LOL no seriously, we do have some good ones - I'm just cross today
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im on diy and i tidy up after myself.
i worked on a mixed yard for 2 years and the full liveries were the worst. the yard got finished at 6pm and then owners would come down about 8pm, decide they needed more hay for thier horses and trail it from the barn, all the way down the yard then into which ever stable they were going to and then just go home??
clearly never heard of using a barrow.

i know people on here have their rants about DIY liveries, and it really annoys me as not all of us are like this.
just because we pay less on diy than full livery doesnt make us poor useless muppets that are in capable of tidying up after ourselves.
 
Thats really quite funny! I'm a DIY'er at an otherwise full livery yard - and its the full liveries that leave a mess everywhere, walk off with stuff (including mine) etc etc! One of the grooms even commented that it was always spotless outside my 2 stables
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- I guess that means I fall into category 2 Lol!

But honestly - there are some good DIY'ers out there - we are jsut a rare species y the sound of it!
 
Actually I totally agree. The only thing messier than a DIY livery is a full livery trying to actually look after their horse themselves.

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I am going to get EVERYONE to hate me today LOL
 
I have to be honest and touching wood and fingers crossed our yard is pretty good. We all generally get on really well (of course we have the odd b!tch).

Stuff never goes missing and we are all pretty tidy. There is one new girl that is pretty lapsidasical in her approach to everything including horse turnout times, other than her I am proud to say that our DIY Only yard is one of the better ones.

My ducks are the only messy ones! But they give me eggs so can't complain!
 
But equally I am on full livery on weekdays but if I am there would skip out my horse, tidy up where he has been and ensure he is clean.
 
I haev to agree with Tamser on this one. I'd empty the wheelbarrow just inside her stable!! This is another reason I keep my horses on a field with just me for comany!!
 
I'm on DIY but prob half on my yard are on part - they get it turned out out am and mucked out in the week but have to do the rest. I have my own tool and barrow stacked neatly outside my stable. I regularly have to fetch my barrow from the muck bucket although it has always been empty. Also i always put my tooks back on the same hooks but other people use them and put them back wrong, half hung off, mixed up, two on one! It doesnt really matter but ut irritates me!! I keep my area clean and swept and sweep wherever i've tied my horse but i've given up with the rest of the yard because no-one else seems to bother! People think nothing of going and leaving a dropping where their horse has been!!

Finding my barrow full after going to look for it would drive me mad - if i knew who it was i'd tell them!! I dont mind people using stuff if they put it back!

I lent a girl a rug weeks ago as hers was wet and am still waiting for it back! Am waiting to see how long it takes! Funny thing is she came back last week from a lesson and the horse was wearing it in the trailer - how cheeky!!
 
i am DIY and this irritates me too!! i have no problem with someone borrowing my barrow IF they empty it after themselves...... I had a regular "user " who would leave MY barrow full of muck outside her stable, for me to empty....i did back into her stable
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she soon got the message!!
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I'm DIY too and anyone can borrow my things if they put them back where they found them, use them when I don't need them and if they break anything then they let me know and replace it. I'd of emptied the wheelbarrow in her stable too, cheeky mare
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People use my barrow all the time and it PISSES ME OFF
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I spent £100 on a 2 wheeled big barrow for ME, not for ANYONE to use
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If they puncture a wheel you can be darn sure they wouldn't bother to tell me
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I would have absolutely NO problem with emptying the barrow outside someone's stable (even tho that would bother my yard OCD!)
 
see I am the same. I don't mind one bit if people want to borrow my things as long as they put them back. I am not precious at all about stuff. I loan things out all the time to help people.

I hate forking up muck onto the trailer, and as a member of staff I have to do it loads - plus it hurts my back (which I DONT moan about but happens to be true) - this person has one, occasionally two horses to skip out, both deep littered on shavings - . GRRRRRRRRRRR how selfish

Okay, gonna leave this now. It is not worth getting in a fret for
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Id' tip the barrow over where I found it, people should have their own equipment not sponging off others, I dont mind lending stuff a couple of times or helping someone but it's easy for people to take the piss, found this out with whatever hobbie you have, theres always the one)s who will take take take.
 
Well I would have emptied right outside the stable door and left a note saying I have taken my wheelbarrow back, as you dont pay me to muck out your horse, why should I empty your muck from my wheelbarrow!
 
Exactky the reason i rent my own field!! Obviously dont have the facilities of a yard but it's worth the extra effort to be on my own. I know that might sound a bit miserable but it's just not worht the hassle, i have considered having 1 livery to help with the rent a bit but i don't think it's worht it!
 
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When I fulfil my life ambition to run my own small livery yard I swear on my life I will never ever have any DIYers on it. In my experience they generally fall into two categories
1) lazy and thoughtless making a terrible mess
2) insanely judgemental and tidy, moaning constantly about mess and insinuating that not cleaning up after yourself is tantamount to neglet and should be reported to ILPH or similar!



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One might presume from your rather judgemental approach that your experience is somewhat limited?
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I'm going to turn the rant on its head - at our place it's the full liveries who cause all the problems
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YO has since moved us DIYers to our own separate stable block which is always spotless, there's only three of us and we all get along great, if there's anything we need we only have to ask to borrow it and it's always replaced immediately.

Back on the yard with the full liveries they would roll up at 2pm on a sunday after a leisurely sunday lunch, proceed to strew the yard with various objects from unscooped muck to brand new saddles (quite happy to dump these on the floor next to where your horse was tied, on your horse's stable door ready to be knocked off etc.), rugs dumped on wet floor, tools left literally lying in middle of yard... I could go on. A couple of hours later they'd go home leaving destruction and chaos in their wake, their horses still unfed, unwatered and standing in muck
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I'd like to turn this on its head as well and say that having seen the standard of so called full livery at SOME yards I would never ever keep our horses on anything other than DIY. Not saying that full livery is a problem at everyone's yards, so please don't crucify me.

We have DIY, part and full liveries at our yard and it works really well. We are all grown up's, keep the place tidy and have a giggle. Our YO provides most of the stable equipment, although we have our own just because we needed it before, so there is never a problem with people "borrowing" other people's things either.

Reading some of these posts makes me realise how lucky we are to be at such a good place though.
 
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