miskettie
Well-Known Member
It was a month ago that we bought Enys and on our way back home with him in the back of our 3.5t horsebox he reared up and went over the front partition. This design is in most small horseboxes, though some have anti-weave bars and wide doors. Unfortunately ours didn't, so our horsebox had to be cut up to get Enys out. To cut a long story short Enys is fine (to read the long story click here) and we've just got our horsebox back after improvements have been made.
I thought I would post this up here, so that people can see the dangers of these small horseboxes and see how we've changed ours, hopefully for the better (there are other ways). There are dangers with every horse transport and we will keep our horsebox even after what happened.
This is the only photo I have of our box before the accident happened:
- you can see it is a solid partition (not removable)
Here is our horsebox after being cut open:
Enys was actually in the far section (the one of the right of picture, but they cut the left side)
I didn't take any pictures of Enys while he was stuck or while he was being dragged out as didn't know whether he would survive.
Anyway we paid for our horse bit to be sectioned off, it didn't cost too much and although we have lost space it actually seems alot better. Our other horse, Ella, (who is a problem loader) loaded into it fine. It doesn't feel any smaller in the horse bit.
Obviously horses used to put there head over into the living. We had a window put it, but this slides shut when travelling. It's a bit more difficult to tie a haynet up but it's doable.
Now the tack area (with window closed):
(with window open
Not the best photos, as is difficult to photograph. We can still sit in the living, thankfully both me and my mum are short!
Now the next step is seeing whether Enys will load and will travel. Fingers crossed!
Thank you for reading .
I thought I would post this up here, so that people can see the dangers of these small horseboxes and see how we've changed ours, hopefully for the better (there are other ways). There are dangers with every horse transport and we will keep our horsebox even after what happened.
This is the only photo I have of our box before the accident happened:
- you can see it is a solid partition (not removable)
Here is our horsebox after being cut open:
Enys was actually in the far section (the one of the right of picture, but they cut the left side)
I didn't take any pictures of Enys while he was stuck or while he was being dragged out as didn't know whether he would survive.
Anyway we paid for our horse bit to be sectioned off, it didn't cost too much and although we have lost space it actually seems alot better. Our other horse, Ella, (who is a problem loader) loaded into it fine. It doesn't feel any smaller in the horse bit.
Obviously horses used to put there head over into the living. We had a window put it, but this slides shut when travelling. It's a bit more difficult to tie a haynet up but it's doable.
Now the tack area (with window closed):
(with window open
Not the best photos, as is difficult to photograph. We can still sit in the living, thankfully both me and my mum are short!
Now the next step is seeing whether Enys will load and will travel. Fingers crossed!
Thank you for reading .