Keeping tack at livery yards

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I'm interested to know whether you expect a DIY livery yard to provide somewhere secure for you to keep your tack.

There is a dreadful problem with tackrooms at my yard and it's just one of the reasons why I'm thinking of looking for somewhere else ... but are all places the same?

Where do you keep yours?
 
I keep a rug for each horse and a synthetic saddle at the yard, although secure alarmed storage is provided, everything else is at home and I take rugs and other stuff down as I need it. Only because I could fill a tack room all by myself if I had it all there.
 
There should be a secure tack room at a diy yard. At my last yard & currect one there was. I take saddles home with me but all my other tack is kept in ther tack room. To not have one would make life very difficult in deed. I wouldn't be at a yard without one.
 
I think it varies from yard to yard. If you are insured and keep your tack at the livery yard you do need to read all the small print of your policy very carefully, there can be some hidden clauses on certain policies. You also need to make sure that the security on the tackroom at the yard complies with insurance requirements.

Personally I never keep any saddlery on any livery yard regardless of how secure they are and only have minimum rugs there too, but I am fortunate enough to be able to store my equipment at home.
 
Unless the livery yard advertises the fact that they supply a secure tack room then they are not abliged to go to any legnths to ensure the tack room provided is secure enough and will have all the security measures in place that are required by most peoples insurance policies.

You certainly do have to read the small print on insurance policy, there are many companies that wont actually cover tack on yards if more than 5 horses are kept at the same place, not matter how secure your tack room is (correct locks/doors/cctv etc).

Rule of thumb, if you can't replace it, don't leave it.
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It varies from yard to yard- there is no list of facilities any yard 'should' have!

my saddle goes in the car with me from home to work to yard to home again.

unless advertised i don't expect a yard to a secure tackroom- if it is something you must have ask on the phone before viewing.
 
Ditto everyone else. Every yard I've been at has provided what I would call secure tack storage facilities, but none were secure enough to meet the requirements for insurance. Not sure what would tbh!
 
Ditto the above!

I keep all my tack with me bar a couple of turnouts/stable rugs and fleeces for my two-all the rest comes home in the car every day

Insurance Company was more than happy with that arrangement.

TBH no tack room is secure especially the lengths the thieves go to nowadays-taking walls out etc no matter how good the alarm system is-they could have easily grabbed 30 odd saddles by the time anyone comes running and as for the police!
 
My yard is lovely but there is no secure tack room, we just get an area. If i had more expensive tack i would not leave it up the yard just incase, but I would mot leave my yard for that reason as it ticks all the boxes, just wish it was a bit nearer
 
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TBH no tack room is secure especially the lengths the thieves go to nowadays-taking walls out etc no matter how good the alarm system is-they could have easily grabbed 30 odd saddles by the time anyone comes running and as for the police!

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I'm not expecting a vault suitable for the Bank of England, just a room with a decent lock.
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At my yard liveries are provided with 10 double size tack rooms each have individual locking doors & at the entrance steel 10 point locking doors. Supposedly the only way in is by cutting them out of the wall! What do many liveries do? leave them open & I mean wide open when they leave the yard, even though they all have a key each.
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Those that don't keep their tack at the yard, have you checked whether your saddle will be covered on your car insurance?

Most car policies wouldn't pay out for a saddle stolen from a car or if it was in the car when the car was stolen. You may even struggle if the saddle is damaged in an accident in your car.

Perhaps better to keep it at home and risk it in your car if you just go straight to the yard but I wouldn't want my saddle sitting in my car all day while I'm in work. Especially not if the saddle can be seen. A car is pretty easy to break into.
 
I don't think you can expect a yard to provide anything in terms of facilities.

We do have secure tack room alarmed and doubled padlocked locked but security was upped following a burglery where someone sledge hammered the lock on the door. So now we have the alarm in place and lots of liveries use those locking saddle racks as well. Many people who have sharers for example have to keep tack at the yards.
 
On the yard that I am at we have 1-2 to each tack room depending on how many horses you have. I found that my insurance did not cover keeping tack on the yard so invested in a tack safe. Made by a man who makes gun safes. Takes 4 saddles, 8 briddles hooks and room at the bottom for bits and bobs. Has two locks and would need a cutter to get into.
 
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Those that don't keep their tack at the yard, have you checked whether your saddle will be covered on your car insurance?

Most car policies wouldn't pay out for a saddle stolen from a car or if it was in the car when the car was stolen. You may even struggle if the saddle is damaged in an accident in your car.

Perhaps better to keep it at home and risk it in your car if you just go straight to the yard but I wouldn't want my saddle sitting in my car all day while I'm in work. Especially not if the saddle can be seen. A car is pretty easy to break into.

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mine are covered by household insurance- even when they are in the car.
 
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TBH no tack room is secure especially the lengths the thieves go to nowadays-taking walls out etc no matter how good the alarm system is-they could have easily grabbed 30 odd saddles by the time anyone comes running and as for the police!

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I'm not expecting a vault suitable for the Bank of England, just a room with a decent lock.
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It wouldn't just need a decent lock, it would need a decent door and walls and windows... all of which are very costly and then with the added cost of insurance for the yard owner... it all adds up.

We don't have a tackroom at our yard, we all have seperate areas dotted all over the yard...some people choose to risk leaving their tack at the yard many in Tack lockers and others take it home...

The yards I know of that have one tackroom for the whole yard get burgled on a regular basis - despite being alarmed etc
 
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TBH no tack room is secure especially the lengths the thieves go to nowadays-taking walls out etc no matter how good the alarm system is-they could have easily grabbed 30 odd saddles by the time anyone comes running and as for the police!

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I'm not expecting a vault suitable for the Bank of England, just a room with a decent lock.
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