Do mobile field shelters actually survive being moved?

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Yet again I’m thinking of buying a mobile field shelter and, yet again, I’m getting totally confused over what’s good but not horrendously expensive.

The shelter would have to be moved 2 - 4 times a year into adjacent field. I’m assuming metal framed ones would be stronger? Some of the timber ones look very flimsy. There‘s also the huge delivery fees that some charge if not local (I‘m Hampshire/Wiltshire).

There is the alternative, I suppose, of getting a larger permanent one straddled over the fence line but then there is the planning permission (and it’s not my yard).

We’re about to lose a large tree due to rot, which gives shelter ?
 

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I’ve never moved ours but there’s a yard locally that has a 12x24 that they use as a shelter but a good few times a year in summer it’s moved when they do dressage days and use it as a secretary tent or refreshments area.
 

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I think it depends on the structure. I have a barn on metal skids which I’ve never moved, but I can’t see there being a problem if I did. Some of the cheaper ones I’ve seen don’t look nearly as substantial as mine, but probably cost a lot less.
 

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I have an Ascot mobile shelter which has tubular metal skids. It was delivered in early summer 2011 and has survived being moved 3 to 5 times a year as I use it in 3 different paddocks (also have 2 fixed shelters near the yard). Its fully lined, single doorway, decent overhang with gutter etc and has survived a few storms and Fuzzy bashing. Very happy to recco them, I also have 2 x stable blocks from them, vintage 87 (from the Windsor range) and 96, 2 x static field shelters vintage 79 and 2012 (the 2012 replaced a 1967 one that wasnt lined etc, from a different supplier lol)
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I have an Ascot mobile shelter which has tubular metal skids. It was delivered in early summer 2011 and has survived being moved 3 to 5 times a year as I use it in 3 different paddocks (also have 2 fixed shelters near the yard). Its fully lined, single doorway, decent overhang with gutter etc and has survived a few storms and Fuzzy bashing. Very happy to recco them, I also have 2 x stable blocks from them, vintage 87 (from the Windsor range) and 96, 2 x static field shelters vintage 79 and 2012 (the 2012 replaced a 1967 one that wasnt lined etc, from a different supplier lol)
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There is some very beautiful stable yards on that link! ?
 

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I have a National Stables double unit that was built on site, when I said I was going to move it I got ridiculed by OH, anyway move it we did, with a tractor and a sling, down quite a slope, turn 45° and back up a slope. It survived ?
 

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I have an Ascot mobile shelter which has tubular metal skids. It was delivered in early summer 2011 and has survived being moved 3 to 5 times a year as I use it in 3 different paddocks (also have 2 fixed shelters near the yard). Its fully lined, single doorway, decent overhang with gutter etc and has survived a few storms and Fuzzy bashing. Very happy to recco them, I also have 2 x stable blocks from them, vintage 87 (from the Windsor range) and 96, 2 x static field shelters vintage 79 and 2012 (the 2012 replaced a 1967 one that wasnt lined etc, from a different supplier lol)
You get what you pay for.
They are still going Link here

Wondering whether my bank balance would survive even asking for a quote... They look very solid and well made that's for sure!
 

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Wondering whether my bank balance would survive even asking for a quote... They look very solid and well made that's for sure!
Its worth getting a quote, at the time I got mine, a simple 3 x 4 metre, it wasn't as much as I thought it might be, and has seen off 1 other mobile one from next door! By the time you add on the overhang or lining to the cheapest ones out there, you'll be nearly there. Hence I paid once for quality.
 

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I asked. Lovely chap. Prices weren't as eye watering as I'd expected, however they don't deliver up here so am back on the hunt.

OP really glad you asked the question as otherwise I'd have probably gone for the wooden ones, not realizing that the metal ones are so much better for moving :)
 

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I asked. Lovely chap. Prices weren't as eye watering as I'd expected, however they don't deliver up here so am back on the hunt.

OP really glad you asked the question as otherwise I'd have probably gone for the wooden ones, not realizing that the metal ones are so much better for moving :)
I got mine from a small local firm but they were still about £3k
Having said that they're still going strong (with some patching up) after 15 years
 

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I used to have mobile field shelters. Neighbours complained to the council so we were forced to move them regularly. Ours had removable metal struts which braced the structure when you moved it. They were dead simple to pop in and then remove.
 

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We’ve moved both of ours. One has metal skids that we had built onto the wooden base ourselves by a local metalwork firm, the other (same make) was moved on its strong wooden skids. Both were fine. I even know someone that towed their shelter half a mile down the road behind a truck!! It amazingly stayed together, but isn’t advisable (or even legal!).
 
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