Hay nets with trigger clip

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Hi, have seen hay nets for sale with trigger clip on the string , the idea being the string is bit shorter and you clip it on to base of net once through the tie ring, instead of tying the net up. Anyone used them, ? Because of my stiff hands I find tying up nets painful these cold days. I tried with a trigger clip today and I threaded it down to base, up through ring again then down to base and clipped it on. It was as short as if I would have tied it. Horse never noticed any different. Done normal net tonight tho, thought would get views on them first.
 
I use them all the time - I make sure they are hung from break-away string, so if they get tangled, they are safe, but I can't tie nets either because of a hand injury - the cold day mean that the metal work plates and screws makes my hand ache and not work properly.
 
I've used them for many years, although the ones I have are called "anti vice" nets, and I don't think you can get hold of them any more :-(
 
I use clips in the trailer but you have to be careful to clip it such that the pony can't get his lip or nose caught in the clip. I'm not sure I'd leave them in a situation with the standard type clip for too long unsupervised. Depends on what your pony is like in terms of noseyness/greed.
Maybe you could have a little rubber sleeve to pull over the clip area to prevent lip catching, so uou have to slide it up first in order to push the clip in. Sure there must be a way to make them safe...
 
I make my own. Just put old clips from headcollars etc on my haynets.
I really struggle tying and untying haynets so for me they are a god send.
 
Half pony half cow said:
I added clips from a pound shop to my existing nets and works in exactly the same way. So much easier especially with cold hands!
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Me too, I make sure I only add them to my small holed haynets... To avoid danger of catching lips on the clip, I attach to the existing cord, then thread the cord through the tie, back through the haynet lower down and then pull the cord up and clip to the tie attached to the wall
 
Am sold on this idea, going to get some trigger clips and see how it goes, took me ages to tie up net last nite cos hands froze with cold and arthritis!! So much of a pain getting old! Horse is sensible and nets are eliminets v small holes. Why didn't I find this idea out ages ago. !
 
when i milked goats yrs ago (for a vet luckily) i arrived one day to find a goat attatched to a spring clip, it had gone inside his mouth and out through the side of his face , i have also seen a horse with one through his nostril (it had been on a breast bar on his stable). both times the animals were just stood there attached to them which was a very good job especially for the goat, these experiences mean i do not use them anymore.

like queenbee suggests threading them through the hay net and clipping them on a tie clip (nice and high) may be a safer way of using them and i can see how they are good when your hands are crap, i would still rather hay on the floor though-its safer
 
I understand the simplicity may be tempting, but personally I am another who would be very worried about neddy getting hurt on the trigger clip.

Seen a few nasty incidents over the years.
 
May I ask a haynet related question?
I have ordered an easi up pulley - has anyone any experience of these? I find getting a heavy haynet hoisted up to the high tie up rings difficult so hope this will help my poor old shoulders!
 
Jools1234 said:
when i milked goats yrs ago (for a vet luckily) i arrived one day to find a goat attatched to a spring clip, it had gone inside his mouth and out through the side of his face , i have also seen a horse with one through his nostril (it had been on a breast bar on his stable). both times the animals were just stood there attached to them which was a very good job especially for the goat, these experiences mean i do not use them anymore.

like queenbee suggests threading them through the hay net and clipping them on a tie clip (nice and high) may be a safer way of using them and i can see how they are good when your hands are crap, i would still rather hay on the floor though-its safer
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My stables have a tie ring next to a metal hay rack and I put the rope through the tie ring and clip the end to the hay rack. Really quick and easy. For one horse, there is no hay rack and so I just clip it to the bottom of the net itself. Though after these stories, I may clip the rope out of the way. You could just put up another tie ring at the right distance away. That would be really quick and easy and you could put it out of the way of danger.
 
Amaranth99 said:
May I ask a haynet related question?
I have ordered an easi up pulley - has anyone any experience of these? I find getting a heavy haynet hoisted up to the high tie up rings difficult so hope this will help my poor old shoulders!
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Amaranth99 - this sounds interesting as I am struggling with heavy nets too. Have you got a link for the pulley please?
 
Having seen a horse with a clip attached to its lip then unless it was a safety one like this
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(its a link to the original website for button pushers)
I would only ever use one if the tie rope went through it and was tied to the net and the clip was attached to the ring on the wall so its well out of the way of the horse.
 
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Another one here struggling to tie up and undo hay nets. Having spent the last few days dodging eager mouths which pull on the nets as I'm trying to fasten them and having it tugged out of my hands, a clip-on arrangement makes a lot of sense.
 
My horse has just spent a week at Cambridge vet school, he went with his own hay net with a trigger clip on, it was taken off when I went to collect him, I won't use them again as I now feel, I will be tempting fate if I use them again.
 
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