Must buys for winter

[zoon]

Sinc everyone is panicing about winter, I thought a thread with winter essentials would be great. But rather than the normal random recommendations (like the sticky above), can we each chose a winter essential and chose a budget, a mid range and a luxury version.

I'll start with leg wraps for cold horsey legs
bargain - Equilibrium equichaps - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Equilibrium-E...951177&cguid=d3d9ac3e12a0a0e20582b962fe57d9c6

Mid range - Thermatex cordura leg wraps - http://www.thermatex.co.uk/thermatex-quilted-cordura-leg-wraps-set-of-4-737-0.html

Luxury - Veredus magnitic stable boots -http://www.knightsbridgeequestrian.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=98

 

[DragonSlayer]

We are going to get one of them 4-wheeled barrows to pull, rather than try to shove the wheelbarrow full of hay etc. through the mud! Never got round to it last year, WILL get one this year!

 

[Shay]

Pig oil and sulphur mix. Couldn't do the winter without it!

I suppose the luxury is buying it pre mixed (about £17 a litre off ebay). The budget is mixing it yourself. But when I tried to buy sulphur from various local chemists they were so funny about it I gave up.

The bonus? No Mud Fever. All winter. Priceless. (As the advert says!)

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

My must buy is a wheelie bin, a wallpaper steamer & a timer for the plug socket. I want to build a hay steamer so we don't have to mess about soaking hay & can have nicely steamed hay ready for us when we arrive at the yard in a morning.