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In the tack room. We each have a saddle rack and bridle hook and the space underneath it to store our stuff.

Mine is currentky in big plastic boxes but it's a pain to find anything.

What sort of thing do you all use?
 
I have my own tack room, a room built into a barn corner, inside I have a cage in which I store my saddles. I have shelves and plastic boxes to keep stuff in. By the way I still can't find things when I need them!:)
 
atlantis said:
In the tack room. We each have a saddle rack and bridle hook and the space underneath it to store our stuff.

Mine is currentky in big plastic boxes but it's a pain to find anything.

What sort of thing do you all use?
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MY liveries are allowed a trunk or two ( one ontop of the other ) in tack room and they all have a chest freezer each.
 
I keep tack in tack room. I have an old trunk and plastic box kept in the barn along with a couple of pegs for my rugs. I have a grooming box which fits a fair bit off stuff in and another couple of pegs outside stable for current rugs in use.
 
I'm interested to hear replies too. We are doing a new utility room and I want a full height tack/crap cupboard. I think with 2 pull out racks and a Stubbs plastic saddle buddy underneath. With storage everywhere, anyone have any pics of this?
 
Saddles and bridles live at home. Everything else is in the stable at the field (horses live out). Rugs in two massive plastic boxes. Vet and other useful bits in five slim metal drawers. Three plastic drawers for bits and bobs - mostly gloves, and all our hi-viz stuff. Grooming stuff is in two small tubtrugs. All else is hung around the stable walls - headcollars, our hats, spare tack, towels, etc. The stable is also our feedroom so has four plastic bins and a table in it, plus it currently houses a large range cooker!
Short answer - plastic drawers are your friend :)
 
We have saddle racks (2 each one above the other, as most of us have a jumping or GP saddle and a dressage saddle) with a locker underneath which is quite generous, I keep my grooming kit and a large plastic box with the bitty stuff, spurs, brushing boots, etc. in and in the outdoor tack room some of us have plastic garden storage boxes, I keep my excessive quantities of saddle cloths and spare tack and travel stuff in mine. I really could do with an entire to myself shed as I'm a serial horsey stuff buyer :)
 
I am lucky in that I bought myself a 20x8ft shipping container for my sole use. It has a collection of old kitchen units for storage as well as shelves for everyday grooming potions, saddle and bridle racks and I also store my feed in here too.

At the old livery yard I had half of a 6x6ft container that was only 5ft high! The lady I shared with had 3 horses and was soooooo messy! I locked my tack and rugs in there and kept everything else in a large outdoor plastic chest that I kept in my stable.
 
My stable has a small partitioned area at the back (properly partitioned off with bricks & a properly fitted door, I should add!).

In it, I keep all feed & supplements, rugs & the various collected 'things' - it's a pretty small space, but as long as I'm organised, it's ok.

The furthest 'short wall' has 2 bridle hooks & a foldable saddle rack - I leave my 2 rope halter, 22 foot & 12 foot ropes there along with my rope reins, but take the saddle home
Underneath that - I have a tub trug containing boots & schooling wraps

That's literally all my short wall can take!

The near 'long' wall has a shelf - which I keep his supplements, pots of ointments, bandages & other various things on.

Underneath that, I have a few more hooks - I leave spare my headcollar, grazing muzzles (he has 3 as he is king of 'accidently on purpose displacing them' :D ) hanging up there. I've got a hairdressers drawers too.

The 'far' long wall has a plastic box with in the winter his rugs. Above that, I've put up string running the length of the wall to keep things like high viz wraps, tabards & schooling notes on!

Next to that is a bale of shavings & large skipping out bucket (I keep my broom, shavings fork & shovel in it, then I can squeeze 2 feed bins next to each other.

The near 'short' wall has got a wipe board on.

Grooming kit, I keep in a wall hang on the back of the door.

It's a small space width wise - I can't stand and spread my arms out, but it's fairly long! Ideally I'd like a larger space - but on reflection, I'd rather have a small private space I can lock, than a bigger shared space :)
 
Just to add we have a four drawer and a two drawer metal filing cabinet that we got when an office was having a clear out. They are great for smaller fleece rugs, saddlecloths, and I keep all our lunging stuff and spare girths etc in there. Best bit is they're rat proof. We need more of them really!

Feed is kept in plastic sand barrels, 25 years old now and totally rat proof too
 
Plastic storage boxes - the large ones for garden furniture cushions with wheels..a lockable tack box and tall plastic cupbards with shelves..all inside a lockable 20 foot metal container.
 
I'm lucky to have a tack room that was set up for trotters in the '60's, so has a row of great hooks on one wall. An old wardrobe has been set up for hanging bridles and I can put boots etc in the bottom. A retired dressing table has plenty of draws for stuff and an old cabinet that used to go under a photo copier for vet type stuff. I have rails hung from the ceiling rafters that take saddles and rugs. Then there is the tack box and feed bins ...

I'm in trouble if I ever have to move.
 
stencilface said:
Just to add we have a four drawer and a two drawer metal filing cabinet that we got when an office was having a clear out. They are great for smaller fleece rugs, saddlecloths, and I keep all our lunging stuff and spare girths etc in there. Best bit is they're rat proof. We need more of them really!

Feed is kept in plastic sand barrels, 25 years old now and totally rat proof too
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I had wondered about filing cabinets. There are often some broken ones at work. That'll do!!!
 
My current yard give you an area the size of a pallet, which contains a saddle rack, and has shelves above. I use plastic lidded crates, and my first aid stuff's in one of those small plastic drawer units - I try to keep it organised so I can just take the drawer out for whatever's needed. I managed to pick up two lidded metal dustbins for a couple of quid each from Ikea for feed, which just fit under the saddle rack. Rugs stay in the stable on a rail until summer, when they're washed a stored in vacuum bags on the shelves.

I inherited a lovely shed from a previous livery at the yard before that, which was great. It was fitted out with metal shelving, and the yard before that one didn't provide any storage so I kept it all at home in an old caravan that we were given when OH was contemplating converting a Transit van into a camper. That was the best - wish I still had it! I used to dream of moving to a yard where I could take it, so I'd have my own personal tea making facilities and a toilet and shower.
 
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I only keep headcollars in the building in my field (barn/feed room/stable/shelter all in one buildng). They are hung on a bridle rack rails. Saddles and bridles kept at home on wall mounted saddle racks with bridle hooks underneath.
 
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