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last week there was an emergancy up at my yard and a lady had to transport a severely ill horse to the vets in the middle of the night in my trailer. sadly when she arrived at the vets the horse had collapsed in the trailer and had to be put down
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. in order to move the horse out of the trailer they had to remove the partitions and central bar thing. I just tried to put my partitions back into the trailer and its impossible unless you are like 8ft tall and pure muscle as well as some sort of ballancing geniouse!!. i managed to put the central bar in but i cant force the clip on at the top and it made me bleed. and now i cant get the partition wings on the bar...they have to be put on sideways i think and then somehow lined up
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has anyone else tried this??? i was kinda wondering if i should put the whole structure together outside the trailer then put it in???
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I can't help with the trailer fixtures, but you are a good person lending your trailer to a poorly horse. hope they pop into place for you soon.

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Sorry to hear about the poor horse.

I regularly take the partitions out of my box and put full width breast bars in so i can travel my mare and foal.

You do need a man(in my experience) to but the clip back on the central bar, i have tried and tried to no avail!!!

The partitions go in fairly easily, you do need to hold them at an angle tho. Just got to make sure that you put the right one in at each end as they are slightly different. The one that goes at the back of the box, the breach bar metal brackets are set in a bit from the end.

Good Luck!!
 
You're right it's a two person job, plus you need a hammer to get the pin in at the top. We had to take ours apart after FB's accident and it took two blokes to put it back in.

It definitely goes together bit by bit IN the trailer. Put all the bits in loose and take it back to the yard and get someone to help you there.
 
I had the same problem and never thought Id get them back on. As said earlier you need to hold the partitions at ann angle as in line the holes up and turn the partitin as if moving it over and it just drops in place. Its a bit of a nightmare though.
 
Forgot to say once its dropped in place if it wont go back straight again youve put the fron one on the back or vice versa. Dont try forcing it.
 
I regularly take mine apart. it was tricky initially though. As for the pin for the upright i tend to stand on somthing
 
Not a fingers job. Everything on an Ivor Williams is industrial strength which is why they last so damn long. I carry a pair of pliers and an adjustable spanner as well as an extending wheel wrench - have you ever tried undoing the wheel nuts?

It's true that the first time you take the central pole out it's a complete pig and it is worth doing it every so often. You need a step stool unless you're 6"3" like me, but you need one anyway to get on the horse by my age. Its a one bloke or 2 teenage son job.

By the way it isn't widely known that you can remove the bars from the outside by undoing the allen screws that hold their mountings in place. Handy to know if there's a road accident. Add the allen key to that tool kit along with the locking wheel nut key and the spare linch pin (my trailer uses 7 of them and they vanish despite the chains)
 
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