Hayleycob
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Advice please ! What to look for, what to avoid, recomendations ? any advice you have !
Mobile field shelters
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Mrs_Wishkabibble
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Dont get softwood skids. Ideally metal skids or Oak ones if you want it to last.
I have a 12 x 24 one and two 12 x 12 ones. The 12 x 24 is quite heavy to pull when it has been sat somewhere for a few weeks - we move it with 4.6 Range Rover.
The smaller ones move really easily and are easy to manouvre.
Ours are National Stables ones, they are really well built. They arrived when they said, erected them and did a really good job. After 2 years (we have treated them once) they still look as good as new
I have a 12 x 24 one and two 12 x 12 ones. The 12 x 24 is quite heavy to pull when it has been sat somewhere for a few weeks - we move it with 4.6 Range Rover.
The smaller ones move really easily and are easy to manouvre.
Ours are National Stables ones, they are really well built. They arrived when they said, erected them and did a really good job. After 2 years (we have treated them once) they still look as good as new
Gucci_b
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I have 3 12x12's towable stables brought early this year, that i want a new home/sell for!!. p.m me if you like!!
kerilli
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my ones at the last place were made by Clydesdale stables, very good solid metal skids, very strong. i sold them to the new owners when i sold the place, they're about 7 years old now and still look very good. easy to move with a tractor, they sometimes need a good hard jerk to get them moving if they've been in the same place for a while though.
i now have Graham Pluess ones, the skis are metal but nothing like as strong, they deform when i drag them around with the tractor, and i have to pick up the corner with chains on the PTO arms, to let it spring back to rectangle shape, a real faff and not very safe! (this is what they advised me to do when i rang to say the shelters looked like parallelograms after being moved!) so, get ones with strong metal skids...! the good thing with these is that they're made of very strong wooden slats that slot into the framework, a horse could never kick through. get one with metal corners, not wood, as the horses love eating them otherwise...
oh, and make absolutely sure, if you're parking them in a very exposed place, that they're side-on to all prevailing winds... two of mine got picked up over the fence last January...
i now have Graham Pluess ones, the skis are metal but nothing like as strong, they deform when i drag them around with the tractor, and i have to pick up the corner with chains on the PTO arms, to let it spring back to rectangle shape, a real faff and not very safe! (this is what they advised me to do when i rang to say the shelters looked like parallelograms after being moved!) so, get ones with strong metal skids...! the good thing with these is that they're made of very strong wooden slats that slot into the framework, a horse could never kick through. get one with metal corners, not wood, as the horses love eating them otherwise...
oh, and make absolutely sure, if you're parking them in a very exposed place, that they're side-on to all prevailing winds... two of mine got picked up over the fence last January...