How do you secure ...

Gypley

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... your “stuff” in your trailer?

I.e the things you don’t want in the boot, poo scoop, broom, water carrier, bucket?

I have an ifor 505. Bought a few bungees and have the water an poo scoop tied to the middle partition, but I would rather it secured in the nose if possible, although there seems nowhere low enough to attach the bungees to keep everything secure.
Top tips and ingenious ideas required please guys :)

(Also, I only ever travel one horse so I have one side of the trailer free)
 
I tend to put everything down the opposite side to the one I'm travelling at- nothing have ever moved :)
That being said I have a very calm beastie if anything did creep over to his side, I'm sure others have better ideas!
 
I put everything in a big rubber bucket at the front of the box. I carry a container with a screw top with his water in it and put that in the bucket, that also keeps the bucket from moving. I put other small things I need in the bucket.

I have a piece of bailer twine attached to the handle of the water container in the bucket and I attach this to a string tied around the lower part of the 2 small bars behind the front window of the horsebox, using a carabiner clip.

I put a manure fork behind the two bars. That holds it tightly in place.

I also have a diy stand for my saddle that has bailer twine attached to it so I can clip that on to the lower bar aswell.
 
There should be a series of hook points in the nose? We run horizontal tight bungees at knee, waist and above head height. Broom, poop scoop etc go on the floor with the handles tucked behind the lower two bungees. Water carrier has its own bungee set over the others so you don;t have the broom etc falling about because of the bulge created by the carrier. Flexi buckets hanging at 90 degrees from the handles are looped on a vertical bungee running from the points on the jockey door side and remain in place (rather than sliding downward) because of a martingale stop held in palce with a plaiting band (!). First aid kit is looped through the above head height one. Two spare leadropes coiled and then clipped onto the waist height bungee.
 
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