FfionWinnie
Well-Known Member
I can't stop reading the title as "legalities of a travelling person living in a horse box" 😳
Personally I would do as advised and fit the anticlimb bars. If she goes bananas and you can't calm her you won't stop her jumping it again by being there and she might take you out while she does it!
To make it less stressful get her used to regularly standing in the box shut up as if in transit but stay stationary for long periods of time eating a hay net. Once she accepts that without a carry on, start moving.
Lastly I have travelled a mini Shetland in the front of an ifor. You could fit two in mine, plus the tack pack as he is small and it is a 511. I locked the groom's door but he doesn't move anyway so really I couldn't see a safety issue at all. My vehicle is well up to the weight and the mini doesn't remotely bring us near to the trailer's capacity - he probably weighs about the same as two big 17.2hh's heads and my other two are 14.2 and 15.2 so their heads don't encroach too much on the nose anyway in terms of dropping hay. He's out grown now so unlikely I will do such dastardly things again (incidentally trailer warning labels also state not to tie horses to the outside of it, don't think many people heed that warning!).
Personally I would do as advised and fit the anticlimb bars. If she goes bananas and you can't calm her you won't stop her jumping it again by being there and she might take you out while she does it!
To make it less stressful get her used to regularly standing in the box shut up as if in transit but stay stationary for long periods of time eating a hay net. Once she accepts that without a carry on, start moving.
Lastly I have travelled a mini Shetland in the front of an ifor. You could fit two in mine, plus the tack pack as he is small and it is a 511. I locked the groom's door but he doesn't move anyway so really I couldn't see a safety issue at all. My vehicle is well up to the weight and the mini doesn't remotely bring us near to the trailer's capacity - he probably weighs about the same as two big 17.2hh's heads and my other two are 14.2 and 15.2 so their heads don't encroach too much on the nose anyway in terms of dropping hay. He's out grown now so unlikely I will do such dastardly things again (incidentally trailer warning labels also state not to tie horses to the outside of it, don't think many people heed that warning!).