Just to lighten your night - sister stuck is stable for 2 hrs

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Last night I dashed away from the yard early for some well earned drinks with friends, leaving my sister to finish up. She has snapped the lower and upper rotational muscles in one shoulder so only really has the use of one arm and she decided to give the horse a quick brush before heading home. The YO is on holiday and everyone else had left so she gave the horse a quick 10 minute brush then tried to get out but the kick bolt had fallen shut, and she couldnt climb over the stable door with only one arm! She rang me but I was miles away and couldnt drive by that time, and could really only laugh, and she then started the ring around of friends closest to the yard but no one answered. She eventually rang her boyfriend who lives 20 miles away who rescued her 1.5 hrs later at half past eight. The horse was immaculate by that time! Any one else managed to do this?
 
I've done it too..... a few times!
Last time I had a broom to hand so I could reach the kick bolt with that but I have to admit to emerging from my stable, over the door, head first a few times! :)
 
I got stuck upside down, wedged inbetween a round hay bale and the corner of a field shelter if that helps at all :p Being dragged out by your legs is never the most dignified moment in a womans life.

It's the second time i've been stuck upside down too, the other time I was about 6 and was at a farm park, I leant over the barrier to reach a little bunny to stroke, and over I went onto my head hah.
 
Have lept the stable door a few times, my worst is forgetting my yard keys and having to climb the gate which has 2 rows of barbed wire on top :eek: I'm quite good at getting over that now.

But one night in middle of winter I was leaving, minus keys, figured it would be safer to climb by the hinge/wall, less barbed wire...I was most impressed when I made it over unscathed, took one step back and ended up in the brook next to the gate :eek: stupid idiot forgot the damn thing was there!
 
I've been shut in by co-workers before, luckily I've had grooming brushes and managed to aim well enough to drop them on the kick bolt (my aim is terrible normally)
 
i too have been stuck but only for a few minutes as if you have a broom or similar to hand you just pop it over the door and knock the kick bolt over.

On a similar note i have also learnt how to undo a drop catch from inside my chicken shed using nothing but a knife! :D
 
Hahah aww i do feel sorry her! i have done this, i really couldnt get out as i just couldnt get over the high door, (the stables were massive and had very high doors that the 14hh pony could reach over- she could get her head over the sides though ( old style barn type thing- hard to explain) so i actually vaulted on her back, positioned her by the wall (knew schooling to leg aids would come in use :D) and used her as a ledge lmao,
 
This happened to me a couple of years ago all alone on the yard -doors very high, bars on the windows. I got inventive.

I took down and emptied my boys haynet, and used the tying up loop to hook over the bolt and loop it open - brilliant I thought!!
 
Yes have done that a couple times, thankfully in conventional stables so easy to jump over the door. I must admit to getting very lazy at the new yard though as they have monarch stables so no real need for kick bolts as if any horse can undo the top lock I'd sell it to the circus!
http://www.monarch-equestrian.co.uk/internaldoors.html click on special doors and you'll see what I mean :)
 
LOL - yes!!

I was in a pink and cream suit on my way to interview but i needed to let the babies out - I had intended on just opening doors straight onto field, but for some reason i decided to go in and give my baby a cuddle (as best you can trying not the get horse hair on you!) for good luck (i did have my hunters on!)

(attractive picture - pink and cream spotty suit, looking professional and green wellies)

Well i had said cuddle and found door locked - kick bolt had flopped over! CRAP!
I had to put my skirt up round my arse (not attractive) and clamber over the door (trying not to snag my shiny M&S tights - unsuccessfully)

Let baby out and then spent an age trying to get clean!! (wet ones are a must in my car!) and put new tights on!


- didnt get the job!
 
LOL... have had it done to me a couple of times.. its always my dogs.... they manage to knock over the kick bolt with their paws.... so am quite good now at getting over the stable door... much easier of course if you have the use of both of your arms... :)
 
Yep, i've done it!

Also rang round a few people who couldn't help me, so resorted to emptying the water bucket out to use as a step!!!

I'm very careful about kick bolts now!
 
I once got lodged in a field shelter by a git of a 16hh Irish Cob, he shut the door, knocked the kick bolt on and stood leaning against it. I tried everything in my book to move the dozy feck and he just would NOT shift, mind I am only just over 5ft and don't have the most well oiled joints now. Took my husband to come looking for me to shift the sleepy twonk. Longest it has taken me to muck out :o
 
I've done it a few times, probably the most amusing would be shortly after I got my 1st horse (I'll only have been about 15 at the time and not very experienced). I had my pony in her stable in the american style barn brushing her when the stallion at the end of the aisle (don't know if he was quite old enough to be referred to as such but he was more or less fully grown and still had his man bits so...) escaped (guess his kick bolt wasn't on properly and thus the door didn't stand up to his repeated attempts to kick it down... this is the same horse that managed to lift if very heavy stable door right up off its hinges in later years, gave himself and everyone else one heck of a shock!) and started parading up and down the aisle, knocking my kickbolt over on his way past. So now I was stuck in this stable with him sniffing her arse over the door, praying that she didn't freak out (I did NOT fancy my chances of jumping the door seeing as he was stood directly in front of it!). This was before I had the yard number saved in my phone, so after shouting and swearing a bit and realizing that nobody could hear me I ended up ringing my mum to get her to ring YO to send someone to rescue me! Got the mick taken out of me for years for that one! I have done it accidently on other occasions and sometimes deliberately when people were feeling mean and developed various tactics from using a schooling whip to dropping a dandy brush just onto the right spot or when all else failed just climbing over!
 
Lol. Poor sister.

I was in the stable with my youngster getting her used to handling and highland was tied up outside. Little git put the kick bolt on!

I ended up climbing over door, praying youngster wouldn't freak out - she'd only been in a handful of times at this point.
 
Dreckly said:
This happened to me a couple of years ago all alone on the yard -doors very high, bars on the windows. I got inventive.

I took down and emptied my boys haynet, and used the tying up loop to hook over the bolt and loop it open - brilliant I thought!!
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Great minds think alike! :D:D
 
Thankfully *Grasps wood!* this has never happened to me!
I don't have a kickbolt on my door, the last horse in the stable barged the locked door open and took the kickbolt with it so I have to clip my leadrope to the top bolt so she can't undo the door! I do most of my stuff with her with the door open anyway :D
 
Well heres an embarrassing story I've never told before...

Once I was evening show jumping at a local centre which i went to most week I think I must have been 15 ish and had struck up a 'connection' with one of the regular arena crew.
When we'd finished for the evening all the competitors boxed up and normally went to the canteen for a bite to eat and a debrief. So I boxed up my boy and wondered around to the loo before heading upstairs to meet my mum. On my way back from loo (it very dark I remember) I heard footsteps and a bit jumpy called out 'who's that?' and the before mentioned chap answered literally as we walk straight into each other.
Well.. we had a little kiss, then could here foot steps coming so ducking into an empty stable carried on where we left off :o footstep went to loo and passed our stable again and must have seen it was open so shut both top and bottom doors.
We stood frozen to the spot until the footsteps had gone- :eek: luckily there was a tiny triangle in the rafters of the timber stables which he bunked me up to so i could scrabble through drop the 10 foot the other side and go and let him out.
We then had to calm down to walk upstairs to our mums and all our friends like nothing had happened!

This chap is now my farrier and 15 years on we've never mentioned it since!
 
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