How do you keep in use rugs?

[poiuytrewq]

Rugs that are not in use are kept clean folded in my tack room and I usually have kind of washing lines, string through hosepipe slung from stable corner to corner for stuff that’s being used.
Big combos don’t really work though and everything’s looking a bit scruffy. When I chuck my beds up it gets bedding all over the rugs, horse also from time to time pulls them off and poo’s on them!
I have a small garden shed as storage on the yard but it gets wet inside. It’s ok short term if they are up off the floor so I’ve stacked them on top of storage which works but Is a pain then to get to other stuff.
My overhang isn’t big enough to put rug rails outside, they get wet.
Just wondered what everyone else does, any nifty ideas?
I hate scruffiness ?

 

[Pinkvboots]

I have wooden poles suspended from the ceiling high enough so they don't get bedding on, I have one for turnout rugs and one for stable rugs for rugs in use, my other ones are kept in large plastic storage boxes in the garage.

I don't use combos my necks detach but I would pull the rug further up so I could flip the neck bit back over the pole so it doesn't drag on the bedding.

You could buy those metal hooks that hang on a door or somewhere that has an overhang, then hang your rugs on those but they would have to be high so they don't hang on the floor a friend of mine hangs her rugs like this in her tack room all along one wall.

 

[SEL]

I've got large hooks in the hay barn that the in use rugs go on - they can drip happily. I need a footstool to hang them up tho

Out of use ones in a shed (doesn't leak) or in plastic garden storage boxes.

 

[Meredith]

I did this, or rather OH did.
If you have enough headroom invest in a pulley.
Fix the rope and poly pipe above the stable or walkway and the pulley winder outside so your horse can’t dislodge it.

 

[Birker2020]

Rugs that are not in use are kept clean folded in my tack room and I usually have kind of washing lines, string through hosepipe slung from stable corner to corner for stuff that’s being used.
Big combos don’t really work though and everything’s looking a bit scruffy. When I chuck my beds up it gets bedding all over the rugs, horse also from time to time pulls them off and poo’s on them!
I have a small garden shed as storage on the yard but it gets wet inside. It’s ok short term if they are up off the floor so I’ve stacked them on top of storage which works but Is a pain then to get to other stuff.
My overhang isn’t big enough to put rug rails outside, they get wet.
Just wondered what everyone else does, any nifty ideas?
I hate scruffiness ?

Just inherited a big metal box from a previous livery who has given up horses now. So put my clean ones in there.

My in userugs are hung from hooks thst fit on the side of my stable.

 

[spotty_pony]

I’ve got rug racks in the tack room for mine.

 

[J&S]

One stable has arail all along the short side, in use rugs go over that, dayor night. Other stable has an old dress rail, really useful as can be wheeled outside when weather is nice and sunny.

 

[Roasted Chestnuts]

Vacuum bags for the clean ones the rest I fold up and store in a rack in my tack room

 

[meleeka]

I’ve got a pole on the walls between the stables which are head height and fit between the upright bits. If rugs are wet I have a couple of screws at the top of the back wall and hook them on by the fillet strings.

 

[Cragrat]

I have strategically spaced nails at the back of my stables, right at the top of the wall under the eaves. I hang wet rugs by the fillet strap D rings overnight - they are usually dry by morning. When I used to lay them over an internal gate or dividing wall they would still be wet. Dry rugs go in a garden plastic box with a hinged lid outside the stable

 

[Ratface]

Rugs in use are either on horse or on a metal side rail in horse's stable.
Ones not in use in rug room in their individual plastic rug bags.

 

[Esmae]

Maybe a pole with a pulley so that you can get it down to your level when you want it and then hoist it up out of the way. Like those laundry things but longer. That might work.

 

[Annagain]

I don't really have more than one rug in use at a time. If I have to change one because it's soaked through, we have a spare stable in which we've attached a rope from corner to corner. I dry the rug on there and then put it away until I need to swap it back (when the replacement gets soaked through). By away I mean in rug bags in a garden storage box in the tack room. The only slight issue is three of us (with 5 horses) use that stable so it usually means we have 4 rugs to dry (Arch is naked) at the same time and the rope can only take 2 so we have to take it in turns (or spread one on the floor) to dry them and hope we don't need to swap until they're dry!

 

[First Frost]

Clean rugs are kept in the tack room on shelves labelled by horse/rug size. In use rugs are kept on big stubbs hooks in my hay barn. One named hook for each horse and a couple of extra hooks for spare hoods etc.

 

[blitznbobs]

My new yard has a rug wall with these ??(I sprayed them metallic gunmetal but theyd be fine as is) They are so good Ive put them outside stables and wouldnt want them in with the horses but they are fab and can easily hang up a big rug on them and hook fillet string over if you want them neater…

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Have built a dedicated rug room for the spares and hubby has done a fab job of big shelves for wsshed and bagged rugs ready fir me to go nuts with the labelling gun!