metal containers converted to stables?

[Vicki1986]

i was talking to someone about mobile stabling for use on a rented field (dont want to do the planning saga) and they said why dont they just convert their unused metal shipping containers. the people have two huge ones and access to modify them in anyways required to make them suitable.

this interested me, i've seen them used as shelters before but not a stable, even a make shift jobby.

has anyone done this before?

 

[Chico Mio]

Problem maybe that if you convert them they stop being metal storage containers and become stables and you're right back at the planning permission thing. I think it would be best to check anyway.

 

[190789]

I think is redmire that do moveable field shelters you don't need planning permission for them.
We had them in our field before we could get persimisson.
Hope this helps
Bex

 

[ruscara]

We use shipping containers as our tack rooms, and I can tell you that they are horrendously hot in summer (literally like an oven) and freezing in winter, with awful condensation.
I wouldn't want to stable my horse in one, that's for sure!

 

[Vicki1986]

i did wonder about that. thanks

 

[kerilli]

my first thought was "only if you want to cook the poor neds".
wooden shelters on skids are a thing of wonder...!

 

[perfect11s]

I dont think they would be wide enough at 8 ft

 

[Booboos]

We had one for storing building site stuff and I have to agree with Ruscara, no ventilation, no insulation, really attracts heat.

 

[SonnysHumanSlave]

[ QUOTE ]
We use shipping containers as our tack rooms, and I can tell you that they are horrendously hot in summer (literally like an oven) and freezing in winter, with awful condensation.
I wouldn't want to stable my horse in one, that's for sure!

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Totally agree with this.... at the riding stables i worked at we had to remove the horses from them on hot days.... think of a dog in a hot car!! thats exactly what happens.

Maybe if there was ventilation through the roofs it may be cooler, not sure though!

 

[CazD]

Definitely think it would be too hot in summer and would attract condensation in winter. We have a corrugated iron opened fronted field shelter which the horses DO all use in summer but our closed fronted haystore which is also corrugated iron is terrible in summer - you can hardly breath, its so hot. In the winter we get condensation in the hay store. I definitely wouldnt stable a horse in one at any time of the year.