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I am at a super yard love everyone there, however.... People keep using my things such as wheelbarrow, fork, broom, mane and tail, all my grooming kit- and it starting to pee me off! The yard equipment is now getting haggered from being used 10 times a day and being left out rain or shine! And in regard to everything else it's just not were I left it! Anyone got any tips for stopping this?? Before any1 asks.... Yes I have said stop doing it!!!
 
I'm on a very small yard (only three of us on there currently - max is 5) and I don't mind the current people using my stuff too much. However, I would be reallly miffed if I was in your situ on a large yard and numerous people were using my stuff without asking as like you say wear and tear occurs!

I got particularly annoyed when one woman (who has now been chucked off!!) was continuously using my food stirrer and leaving it in the mud on the floor unrinsed! I then caught her using my barrow without asking one day when she thought I wouldn't be there. I wouldn't mind but this woman and I had a major row and never spoke so for her to be using my stuff behind my back was ridiculously cheeky!

Anyway, back to your question - how about a lockable storage unit? Expensive but in long term would save you having to replace all your stuff?
 
You're not petty, if you don't like it then you don't like it.

I admit I am one who will use the nearest broom or whatever for little sweeps, but I don't think I'd use someone's grooming kit and if someone had put their yard tools away no way would I touch them.

We all keep our yard equipment together, people use my stuff too, we keep a hoof pick outside the stable door and everyone uses it, same with our brooms and barrows too, but I do know one of the ladies doesn't like it so I don't touch her stuff at all. But maybe people do mind and are just being polite, I'd rather they said!
 
This makes me so mad! Why should you buy all those things for everyone else to use as much as they want?
I had this issue on a yard and people had there own stuff and were still using mine, including the supposed "yard manager" (not much managing occured).I confronted her and asked her not to use my stuff, she then denied it and continued to use stuff!
And by stuff I mean wheelbarrow, fork, shovel, lead ropes - which were used until they had been bitten through/ruined with feed on, feed, clean stable to put their horses in.
I don't have a horse at the mo but will hopefully get one when my children are a bit older and know I will have the same issue as the yard is on my father in law's farm and the "yard manager" is my sister in law so I will install CCTV and film the crazy loon as she also likes to "move" things so I can't find stuff when I'm mucking out at 5.30am in the dark.
The only thibg you can do is lock stuff up/away so people can't get to them
 
Do you have a tack locker or space to put a Keter storage chest where you can lock your stuff away?
I had the same problem with a fork and i know it sounds sad to get miffed about a fork but it was extra long as i'm tall and cost me over £35 and i didn't want it to get broken so i kept it in my car!!!
When i got a smaller car i screwed a couple of small metal hook things in the wall (got them from B&Q) and a small chain and chained them to the wall.
Also put up notices (put your name on everything) asking people not to use your things?
 
g&tanyone?? said:
I am at a super yard love everyone there, however.... People keep using my things such as wheelbarrow, fork, broom, mane and tail, all my grooming kit- and it starting to pee me off! The yard equipment is now getting haggered from being used 10 times a day and being left out rain or shine! And in regard to everything else it's just not were I left it! Anyone got any tips for stopping this?? Before any1 asks.... Yes I have said stop doing it!!!
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Buy a cheap cable lock and secure your wheelbarrow, fork etc together. Lock smaller items in box with lid
 
Fiagai said:
Buy a cheap cable lock and secure your wheelbarrow, fork etc together. Lock smaller items in box with lid
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This. And, no, you are not being petty. This would wind me right up. I don't think I would mind if someone grabbed my fork/brush/wheelbarrow if they were a) stuck; and b) put it back in the same condition . . . but if people routinely used consumables like mane & tail conditioner, etc. without a) asking or b) offering to replace I'd be really cross. Bottom line - it's stealing. Keeping horses is expensive . . . I don't need to be buying any more of anything than is absolutely necessary.

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I can't think of any way to stop them using your yard equipment, unless you can stash it far away from anyones sight!

all my lunge equipment had been taken and has never been put back (I did rummage around late at night and find my lunge line though!). I can't bear it when people just take things that don't belong to them. Even if it's just hoof picks, I've bought about 7 this year.

Lock up everything that you can.
 
I had a livery turn up once - with a good-sized hole drilled in the handle of each tool (2 had funny loops welded onto the metal handles) & also each tool had 3 lines of electrical tape in red round then.
She had her stuff 'borrowed' often in the last yard & usually never returned.
She just threaded a cycle lock through all of it & looped it round the barrow & locked it up when she left..... apparently that stopped the thieving/borrowing etc.
Her grooming kit went into a tack locker & all locked away.

Every item had the tape wound round it - feed buckets, water buckets, haynet strings, rug straps front & belly etc!
 
You're all making me feel very sanctimonious about the yard I'm currently on. No'one borrows ANYthing without asking first. Period. Not wheelbarows. Not skips. Not forks/brooms/hoofpicks, etc. We do have individual tack lockers and I have stashed my lunge whip, lunge roller, horsey first aid stuff and grooming kit in there as well as tack . . . but plenty of people leave that stuff outside their stables and it just doesn't get used. And yard tools (wheelbarrows, forks, brooms, skips, etc.) are kept in communal areas and I have yet to come up to the yard and find my stuff anywhere other than where I left it (and in the condition in which I left it).

I think alot of it is down to a) age of people on the yard (although I'm prepared to be proved wrong); and b) established culture.

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The Fuzzy Furry said:
I had a livery turn up once - with a good-sized hole drilled in the handle of each tool (2 had funny loops welded onto the metal handles) & also each tool had 3 lines of electrical tape in red round then.
She had her stuff 'borrowed' often in the last yard & usually never returned.
She just threaded a cycle lock through all of it & looped it round the barrow & locked it up when she left..... apparently that stopped the thieving/borrowing etc.
Her grooming kit went into a tack locker & all locked away.

Every item had the tape wound round it - feed buckets, water buckets, haynet strings, rug straps front & belly etc!
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This is a very clever solution . . . but I also think it's kinda sad that people have to resort to this. I must be very lucky that I haven't encountered too much "borrowing" . . . although it did used to irk me when I went to muck out at a previous yard and my wheelbarrow (with Kal's name emblazoned on it) wasn't available for me to use . . . I know that sounds petty, but I bought it specifically because I got fed up of the yard barrows constantly being unavailable.

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PolarSkye said:
You're all making me feel very sanctimonious about the yard I'm currently on. No'one borrows ANYthing without asking first. Period. Not wheelbarows. Not skips. Not forks/brooms/hoofpicks, etc. We do have individual tack lockers and I have stashed my lunge whip, lunge roller, horsey first aid stuff and grooming kit in there as well as tack . . . but plenty of people leave that stuff outside their stables and it just doesn't get used. And yard tools (wheelbarrows, forks, brooms, skips, etc.) are kept in communal areas and I have yet to come up to the yard and find my stuff anywhere other than where I left it (and in the condition in which I left it).
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........... *moves there*

You're very lucky! There are only 2 other liveries at my yard, and then about 15 that are all the yard owners. So it's not even like we could all get confused.

I'm liking the idea of tying everything together.... One way to make a very clear point :p
 
Best trick for grooming equipment - let everyone know your horse has suspected mites/bacterial infection of the skin/ bubonic plague. That tends to put them off using brushes, curry combs etc.

That won't help with the wheelbarrow but I'm a horrible person so I'd see if I couldn't leave it with a loose bolt on a wheel so that it can collapse with them face down in a pile of muck. Mean, I know, but if people don't respect your stuff, they need a dunk in the dung, to be honest.

As a matter of interest, I have my own yard and I have a grooming kit for each horse to prevent cross-infection. This is what I was taught as a child and it's a habit now, and not a bad one I don't think - it can certainly do no harm.
 
I hate it when people borrow my stuff and don't put it back!

Where I am now is great, there is just two of us and we both have our own gear and never use each others stuff. I had to laugh when I returned to one place to collect my wheel barrow to be told its over by the barn - no-one has used it! It had a flat tyre and a bolt missing - of course it was used until it was too much of a pain to push with the flat tyre - same as with the dung fork I'd also left there - its tynes were twisted and warped all over the place - certainly not how I'd left it!

Drilling holes through the handle and locking everything up together sounds a good idea.
 
Everyone wants to be nice and in theory it is nice to share but the problem is that the person with the nice stuff gets all of it borrowed and not always returned clean or undamaged. And stuff that is like mane/tail stuff gets used but not ever replaced, so thats not borrowing!

I think with a large yard you do have to find a way to secure your stuff. A big chest for the bottles and potions and a lock for the handled implements.
 
thank you for all the brilliant ideas!! just brought a lockable unit and tonight... im going to leave my wheelbarrow full of poo!!! hehehehehe:D
 
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