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Tiddlypom

Tiddlypom

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After several days of the horses being in each night during the big freeze and making full use of their cosy shavings beds to stretch out on, their stable rugs were in sore need of a good wash and de-stink.

Today’s forecast was for it to be mostly dry, so I got the filthiest rug, which at 6’9” and 200g is as big as my washing machine will take, and crammed it into the machine while OH was out walking the dog. He had no need to see the colour of the water in the drum, did he :D?

After a wash and another full rinse, the rug comes out looking not too bad. But alas, now it’s raining, so I have to drape it out in the kitchen to dry. That wasn’t in the plan.

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‘Oh, it‘s fine, it wasn’t very dirty, I only popped it in the machine for a freshen up’ I assure him, not entirely truthfully.

Luckily, the stink HAS gone, and if you don’t look at it too closely, it’s fairly clean.

Got away with it, I think :).
 
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Ah, I did deploy the giant sized horseware orange wash bag, which keeps errant horse hairs confined.

As a cyclist myself, I would not appreciate horse hair in my padded cycling knickers!

cauda equine, when we were shopping for a new washing machine, a decent load capacity was top of my list for horsey purposes :D. Think it takes a 9kg or maybe a 10kg load.

I only put 0g turnout rugs in it, though, not ones any with any filling. Stable rugs seem to be easier to wash.
 
Quigleyandme said:
The Tesco I shop at has a few washers and dryers outside. I suppose the idea is you do your shopping and laundry at the same time. One machine washes 18kg of washing for €8 - perfect for my stable rugs.
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We have these at the village petrol station, and then the rugs come home and go on my rug drier. Little rugs go through the washing machine at home and then get draped over the radiator in the downstairs loo, where the smell of drying horse rug competes with the smell of slurry covered wellies and boiler suits :eek:
 
Ha ha, I always wait for the OH to go out before I cram all my horsey washing in to the machine. I swear he has a 6th sense for horsey washing though because he has come home unexpectedly several times and caught me out!
 
Tiddlypom said:
Ah, I did deploy the giant sized horseware orange wash bag, which keeps errant horse hairs confined.

As a cyclist myself, I would not appreciate horse hair in my padded cycling knickers!

cauda equine, when we were shopping for a new washing machine, a decent load capacity was top of my list for horsey purposes :D. Think it takes a 9kg or maybe a 10kg load.

I only put 0g turnout rugs in it, though, not ones any with any filling. Stable rugs seem to be easier to wash.
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Using that orange bag is the only way I can get away with washing mine ?
 
Quigleyandme said:
The Tesco I shop at has a few washers and dryers outside. I suppose the idea is you do your shopping and laundry at the same time. One machine washes 18kg of washing for €8 - perfect for my stable rugs.
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That’s a good idea. You’re in Ireland, aren’t you?

Over here, where I am, the large capacity launderette washers tend to have stern notices attached to them. ‘No animal bedding’. Spoil sports :D.

Floofball said:
I made the fatal error of trying to tumble dry a stable rug once, omg the stench!!! ???
Only once, you live and learn ???
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Ah, I did wonder whether I could tumble dry the rug, thanks for the heads up ?
 
Does anyone else use washballs/dryer balls? Around 10 years ago I bought some hair removal washballs, which when I bought them said was for the washing machine + dryer, nowadays they more seems to be said to be for the dryer, but I don't have that, so mine is still in my washing machine. Even though I wouldn't say that they get all the hair off, I think they do make a difference, because the filter in my washing machine is less clogged up with hairs.
 
I wash rugs, dog beds, numnahs, boots in my washing machine. Have done this for many years, and have never had any problems with hairs in my under wear. Is it something you become immune to :oops:
 
I've never broken a washing machine door by panicking he was coming home earlier than planned and needing to get the rug out before he got home.

I've also never flooded the kitchen twice by forgetting to clean the filter and the drum - and it definitely never flooded the kitchen while he was washing his work clothes (white shirts).
 
OH complained that his black socks were covered in white hairs. Luckily the dog is white as well as bits of the horse so I managed to convince him that the dog had slept on the laundry basket. Didn't reveal that a recent numnah wash may have left the machine a little hairy.
Hair removing balls sound useful. *wanders off to laundry websites*
 
You made me smile, I have to 'sneak' my horses Bioflow boots and stable bandages into the washing machine and then I dry them on the radiator but unfortunately the smell of horse urine never disappears whatever wash cycle I put them on so its a dead giveaway. She is just a horse with a very strong smell, I assume she wees on her bed and then lies on it with her boots.

In fact the whole house ends up smelling really strongly of wee once the heating comes on. OH is definitely not impressed! It was great when I took furlough and he was working, the smell was gone by the time he got home but its not so easy now.
 
My latest washing machine purchase is 10kg. I live alone so my colleagues asked why I needed such a large machine. My yard mates asked if, for a fee, I would wash their rugs for them. I make a few bob every winter.
 
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