How to travel a Shetland in a trailer

Michen

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Can anyone advise please? Long journey- 4.5 hours.

I thought partition out and loose but this seems a bit dangerous somehow?
 
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For a one off single journey like that I would travel loose.

Mine travel in a Ifor 505 tied up like normal ponies with the rope over the bar so they can't walk under it. My stallion was double tied over and under as he liked to go up to try to talk to the friend next to him even though he lived in the field with them! My lot are proper big standards though not dotty wee mini's.
 

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I travel them a lot and they just seem to sort themselves out. if the back ramp closes with pins, be very careful there is no chance they can pop out. I hit a pothole once and my pins popped out and my ramp came down. (I think big horses uses lean on back and that holds the pins in better). with no weight against back ramp they can pop out easier, so just make sure something is secured that stops them popping. luckily I'd a piny in at the time that was stopped by the backbar, but a mini could run under.
 

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I travel them a lot and they just seem to sort themselves out. if the back ramp closes with pins, be very careful there is no chance they can pop out. I hit a pothole once and my pins popped out and my ramp came down. (I think big horses uses lean on back and that holds the pins in better). with no weight against back ramp they can pop out easier, so just make sure something is secured that stops them popping. luckily I'd a piny in at the time that was stopped by the backbar, but a mini could run under.

Eeek! Surely that would happen when I tow it empty if it was going to happen?
 

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Eeek! Surely that would happen when I tow it empty if it was going to happen?

yeah I think it was just a freak physics thing, but a few friends said it happened them going over speed bumps.. so it's been on my paranoia list since!! for Williams sell some really cheap safety clips, so I just put them on instead
 
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Miniatures usually have small dainty heads. Standards heads are usually bigger I think.

I have seen some butt ugly big headed minis in my time! And some seriously ugly standards too! All of mine have nice, neat little heads, small ears and mischief in their eyes!
 

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