How much 'stuff' do you keep at your livery yard?

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The yard where we're going does not have much room for 'stuff' - I'm going to be able to keep my tack and hat in the tackroom, but there wont be any room for non-essentials, eg. summersheets, sweat rugs, travelling boots etc. There is a hay rack in the stable which I wont use - Ellie has her hay off the floor, so I'm thinking I will probably keep things like her exercise blanket and grooming kit in there. Outdoor rugs are hung in the barn, but there's only space for two rugs per person. As for the rest of Ellie's (excessive!) wardrobe, I dont know whether to keep it in the shed at home, or in my trailer, which will be parked at the yard, and is at least lockable. What do you guys tend to do?

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due to the fact that nothing is safe at the yard i try only to have bare essentials and everything else lives at home.

I would not advocate leaving stuff in your trailer as an aquaintance recently had her trailer stolen with all her rubber mats, rugs and other parafanalia in. The trailer is covered by insurance the contents arn't
 
I'm lucky in that yards over here tend to have individual padlocked lockers. However, if I didn't have this option I'd probably only keep the essentials. My sisters had so much stuff (generally of mine!) get nicked at various yards. If you've got the option of a lockable trailer that seems like the idea situation rather the lugging stuff backwards and forwards every day.
 
I have half a shed (shared with other liveries) with a massive plastic box full of my stuff!!. A rug rack in my stable. Then I have space for any rugs I can't fit there in "the rug pile!" so rugs I am not using tend to go there. Then obviously a saddle rack/bridle rack in the tack room.
 
I keep everything at the yard as we have the room.
If there was no room, I think I'd probably keep it at home as my trailer isn't secure.
 
The storage of stuff is a bit of a nightmare.
There's not much room at our yard either, though lots of the girls use these huge plastic storage sheds that you get at B&Q.
I asked the farmer if I could have a shed next to my stable, which he agreed to, so I have a small, very compact personal tackroom that holds all my stuff and millions of rugs, AND is lockable.
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i used to keep my horses rugs in the hay rack as she to eats off the floor which is fine if you have a horse that will leave the stuff alone! personally if i was in your situation i'd probably lock the rest in the trailer.Id forget things otherwise
 
We don't have as much storage at the new place as we did at our old place, where we were for about 6 years! At the old place we had a tack space for each horse and room for large tack box, storage in the rear barn for up to 100 bales of whatever - hay, bedding etc, and a space each in the tack room (so our total feed space was about 8 feet long and 4 feet deep, then we had a load of wall cupboards up). 2 small stables and a large individual field. We could store rugs in stables if we wanted to.

New yard we have massive stables, with possibility of storing rugs inside stables, a field for ourselves which is big but not as big as the old one. Our feed space is about the same size as old one, with the wall cupboards up as well, but we only have storage for about 15-20 bales of hay and 10 bags Aquamax on a couple of pallets. We are also allowed to store a big bale of straw in their barn. Our hay storage is incorporated into our feed and rug storage so it makes it look like we have a massive space but we don't! Our tack space is pokey! We have 2 horses with 3 saddles and bridles, and have been given a space for one horse! They have 3 ponies and are using the rest of the room for their tack and feed! My husband is going to put the tack racks up this weekend which will help, and then we just have to make the most of what we have. There's then a half-loft area in the tack room (a ladder going upto a wooden platform) where we can store rugs and other items not in use.
 
I used to keep saddle/bridle/hat on a rack and a small treasure chest type box for brushes/boots/flyspray etc in tackroom. T/O rug kept on rug rail in rug room. Stable rug kept in manger. Sweat rugs etc kept in hayrack as fed in haynet or off floor.

Everything else in shed or cupboard at home. I personally wouldn't keep stuff in trailer as safer at home plus you will have to move everything out when you take her anywhere.

I was only 5 mins away from yard so could pop home for anything I forgot.

Now I rent field, rugs are kept in a neighbouring shed, headcollars and couple of brushes etc kept in metal dustbin and everything else is at home.
 
you have just described something which i will be worried about if i ever move!!

at present outside my stable i have a long green B&Q garden storage box (amazing what you fit in those!) and plastic "mini shed" also a B&Q purchase, and a plastic shelving unit.

in the tackroom i have kind of taken over and got a tub, a plastic shelving unit and large yellow container - which is handy for other people to put there things on.

then outside (lol) i have a big silver metal container.

I just seem to accumulate a lot of stuff and like to spread out. i am really lucky though that i pitched up in spaces that werent occupied so know one seemed to mind.

God knows what i'm going to do if i move to somewhere with 'normal' storage amounts, i seem to have enough stuff to clothe and tack up a small army of ponies.
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Well I did keep my saddles and bridles until they got stolen!...I wouldn't of kept them down there if I knew the yard had been done over twice before but nobody told me this when I moved their...hence finding out when both tack rooms where broken into AGAIN!
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...and yes it wasn't covered on my insurance due the number of horses kept on the yard...so check the small print!

So now I just keep my rugs, feed, schooling/travel equipment in the tack room, then I have some fabby pink storage boxes which one of the other ladies on the livery yard bought me for helping her out with her horses, so I have no excuse for not being organised, first aid stuff in one, all my grooming potions and lotions in another, food sups/hay net etc in another box, grooming kit in my roma grooming organiser bag all outside my stable, I'm at the end of an inside row so I've got a nice little corner thing going on lol!

You can get those platic container draws from Argos too, great for all your plaiting equitment and bandages etc

Although people help themselves to my stuff and the odd thing goes missing
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(only cos they borrow and forget to put it back) but I cant be doing with having to go into the tack room every two minutes (unlocking/locking) just to get something that I need readily available when I'm working with the horses.

My motto is (on our livery yard), if you cant afford to replace it, keep it at home!
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At my old yard I kept my rugs over the feed room wall/in the hay rack, grooming kit, washing kit etc. in the tack room, feed and buckets in feed room, and tack at home. YO lived on-site and I only had cheapie tack but it still wasn't worth the risk IMO (and there were some sightings of some "dodgy" looking blokes with vans going up and down the road outside the yard).
The yard I am at now is probably even less secure, but is very hidden away. There is, however, a footpath running round the outside of the fields. I think you'd probably have to be local to know the yard is there TBH. My friend keeps her stupidly expensive tack in a padlocked cupboard, but I keep my cheapie Wintec saddle at my house still! Rugs and grooming kit in tack room, feed and buckets in feed room, horse in field with the largest padlock on the gate that I have ever seen.
I like Kenzo's "if you cant afford to replace it, keep it at home" motto - but that would have to include my horse and I don't think I could go so far as to keep her in my back garden just in case!
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i share my tack room with 2 others its not that big though. on one wall we have a rope for a few rugs, just me and 1 of the others keeps half of our rugs there the other girl keeps hers in the stable. we have 7 average sized feed bins. i have all my buckets in there. 4 saddles 3 bridles. 2 hats and a tatty one. i have 2 and a half grooming kits. lunge reins and side riens and spare riding riens and lunging whips. i have 3 bales of shavings in there, another 1 has 2. a trunk full of bandages and medical thingys. a rubbish bin. its probably only about 5 and a half meters by 2 and a half meters, where the hell am i meant to keep my hay this year????!!!!! lol!
 
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Thanks, now we all know where to find the key
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Etd...wow that is certainly is a good peice of kit though, how much are they then?
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HOW MUCH!!....Macky's tack didnt even cost that much! my storage box would be worth more than what I've got in it ha haa

I dont know, these people with cheep and nasty synthetic saddles!
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Following a recent tack-nicking spree round my way,, my tack is kept at home ....my rather excessive amount of 'stuff' is kept in my feedroom - I have 3 horses on one yard so I am lucky enough to have my own feedroom ( well, OH is in there also but he doesnt count!!) I also utilise the 'hayrack -as -rug -storage' method!!
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A few of them on the same livery yard as me, hang their rugs (well perhaps not the horses full wardrobe) but day/night ones actually in their stables, one has got a long metal pole that she puts hers on to dry/store and another has hers hung up high on ropes (note the rops hang high so safely away from the horse) but obviously if the horses wanted, could pull them down, put they don't, they must be rather well trained should we say, cant imagine what state my rugs would be in if I left them in his stable....he'd a have party with em!....half of them would be eaten and the rest would be in bits trampled in all the muck
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Also- have you noticed that theres 'stuff' that you can't ever remember buying? And things you know you bought but can't remember why? And why does anyone need 5 pairs of stirrup irons?
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yep...especially when another livery says it, thats because you didnt buy it love, I DID!
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and I'll have it back when you've washed it, thank you very much!
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A few of them on the same livery yard as me, hang their rugs (well perhaps not the horses full wardrobe) but day/night ones actually in their stables, one has got a long metal pole that she puts hers on to dry/store and another has hers hung up high on ropes (note the rops hang high so safely away from the horse) but obviously if the horses wanted, could pull them down, put they don't, they must be rather well trained should we say, cant imagine what state my rugs would be in if I left them in his stable....he'd a have party with em!....half of them would be eaten and the rest would be in bits trampled in all the muck
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Ugh! Lanky is 17.3hh and unless I invest in stilts/ a sturdy ladder/ a pulley system I don't think this could work, but I WAS getting all excited because I am unable to store rugs in with him, for the reasons you state - chewing, trampling etc!
 
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Also- have you noticed that theres 'stuff' that you can't ever remember buying? And things you know you bought but can't remember why? And why does anyone need 5 pairs of stirrup irons?
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I think we must have 9 or 10 sets of woof wear brushing boots. They are size full and only fit ONE of our horses! We have one pair of extra full! So WHY!?

George has 3 medium weight turnouts - one with a neck, one without a neck and one without a neck as a spare (that we are really keeping because it was Sparkle's first turnout rug 12 years ago!).

And why do I need shampoos for every eventuality? Cooling slosh wash, warming massage, delouse, anti-itch, insecticidal, dream coat, bog standard, back to white.... And while we're on it, why have I got 5 boxes of stretchy gloves for mucking out!?!
 


[/ QUOTE ]Ugh! Lanky is 17.3hh and unless I invest in stilts/ a sturdy ladder/ a pulley system I don't think this could work, but I WAS getting all excited because I am unable to store rugs in with him, for the reasons you state - chewing, trampling etc!

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funny vission though
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basics to ride with and keep him warm, he lives out so this is all I have there

Saddle
Day to day bridle
hat
grooming kit
2 turn out rugs in winter
fleece

the rest is at home in the garage
 
I guess I'm lucky as for the past 18 months I have kept my horses at private houses that rent out their stables so space to keep stuff has never been an issue. I have just moved my horses nearer home and have even more space now! ( sorry folks) Since having my tack stolen a few years ago that's only thing I don't keep at the yard. But I have plenty of room for all the other essentials that go with keeping pampered equines.
 
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