Do you keep anything in the stable?

[Elf On A Shelf]

Nope! My lot can't be trusted with ANYTHING! Not even for 2 minutes! Everything would be thrown about and chewed. Rugs would be pulled down and kicked about and tack would certainly meet a very salivery death very quickly!

I'm not a fan of filling stables with stuff. It's thehorses space, not yours. But each to their own.

 

[turnbuckle]

I wish it were so simple. Think the tack rooms were added on later. The gutter runs along the back of the tack rooms and there is a building behind them. There are 5 tack rooms. If I mess with mine too much, it will make the others worse.
I have tried adding gutter joints, using sealant. Using waterproof duct tape type stuff from b and q. I Cannot get on the roof because it isn't very well built.

It would be good to have a storage box for he saddle in there that would protect it but I'm not sure what kind of box would protect the saddle from that amount of dampness

Can you actually get in between the buildings? If so, why not get everyone on the "row" together and put up new guttering with a decent fall? £60 tops I reckon.

If the gutter is in a valley without access things are harder, I agree. But a PROPER roofer, and there are precious few of those, should be able to find a way for not much cash. Certainly easier than the whole faddle you are looking at...

 

[DabDab]

God no - nothing is kept within reach.

In your position I would get a couple of old chest freezers to keep stuff dry in the tack room

 

[Rosiejazzandpia]

I have a homemade trunk in the corner with all my brushes and grooming stuff in. Bottles of fly spray and detangler are hung up and rugs hung at the back of the stable with saddlepads over a hanging pole.
Stables are 16x12 so very large and my girl is never in overnight and only comes in for an hour in the morning.
She doesn't pull or mess with anything and there's nothing she could get into too much trouble with in there

 

[ozpoz]

I don't keep anything in the stable. I'd get a saddle rack for the car if I didn't have a workable tack room, and sealed boxes to store other stuff. An upcycled chest freezer is a good idea.

 

[googol]

I’m another who is in awe of people who can keep things in / around their stables. A girl at my yard keeps grooming kit and I’m sure I’ve seen a rug. I can’t even leave a rug over the door, and my horse has brought his head collar, hay nets and anything else with giraffe reach into his stable and trashed it lol
I’d maybe keep a few things in there if he wasn’t so naughty but my stables aren’t that big

 

[Amye]

Yep - loads of my boys stuff is in his stable. Tack I keep at home though.

We have a storage container at our yard and we're all supposed to have an individual space on two shelves, there's not enough room for everyone's stuff and some people take up their shelves and have a box on the floor (there's no room for any one else to put a box in) and I always have someone else overflowing on my shelves, so I just find it easier to keep his stuff in his stable.

He has two plastic trunks/boxes (the type you buy from homebase or somewhere), one goes under his water drinker in the corner and the other goes next to that along the other wall (in an L shape). He has a 'luggage' rack above that which has some hi-viz stuff on and grooming kit and he has a couple of 'blanket' rug racks at the back to hang his rugs off. He doesn't bother with any of it and his stable is very large, there's more than enough room for him to roll and lie down without going near all of this stuff.

We're not allowed to keep stuff outside our stables either.

 

[atropa]

My last stables had a ledge around one and a traditional hay manger up really high, I kept lots of stuff on the ledge eg sprays, whips, boots, and kept spare rugs in the manger and rugs that were currently being used over the partition, but I had very, very little space on that yard - just enough room in tack room for a toolbox sized grooming kit and my tack, and a garden storage box round the back of the stables which wasn't very waterproof.
My girls are both quite good with things in their stable but I don't like to take up any of their floorspace if I can help it. Previously I have tucked trunks in their old stables out of the way (eg under automatic water drinkers), and quite commonly keep rugs hung on string/over doors/partitions and boots velcroed up on metal bars of Loddon style stables. My older mare occasionally trashed things if she was very bored though.

I'm very lucky currently that at my current yard I have a big double tack locker that can fit the fast majority of my stuff and tack. I also have two garden trunks and a large metal feed bin to fit all my rugs and saddle cloths - admittedly I'm a addict for these. My current stables are each equipped with a rug rack outside, hooks and a tie ring, so I keep rugs in use, everyday headcollars neatly stored outside their stables, I'm also currently keeping mucking out gloves and stable wraps in their feed mangers which I don't use.

 

[LaurenBay]

I think unless the stable is larger than average, or the horse smaller, I would not want to reduce the space they have or put in anything that may be a hazard if they roll into it, even rugs hanging up can get caught by a flailing hoof, I certainly wouldn't want to risk my horse or tack by leaving the unsupervised however sturdy the box, not to mention the risk of theft if it becomes common knowledge that tack is unsecured.

I would rather get a decent box to put inside the tack room so it can be kept dry or find someone to do the guttering if that is the only reason the rain gets in it shouldn't be too difficult to fix and may be cheaper than buying a couple of boxes.

this ^^^^

 

[FinkleyAlex]

I keep a handful of rugs on a rail at any one time, my gelding never touches them. In summer I usually keep a fly spray on the ledge too, but spend half my life digging it out of his bed! I wouldn’t keep a box or similar in a stable personally.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

I’d fix the guttering myself. DIY is for real!

I have rug racks and a grooming bag. There’s a lockable tack room plus our own section for storing bedding, hay, big old trunk with ten year’s of crap in it plus feed bins.