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Does anyone store rugs in their stable? If so, what do you use? We already have a rug rail but it can only hold 2 max.

Oscar is moving into a rather large stable on Sat and there is now space to keep a few more rugs in his stable (at the mo they are crammed in my downstairs toilet!
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At the mo he has his grooming kit and other bits and bobs which he doesn't touch, so no fear of him trashing a storage box but just wondered if there were any good buys out there that people could recommend please?
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Personally i dont keep anything inside my horses stables incase they hurt themselves on the box.......

Mind have rubber water buckets too, as a friends horse at my yard put his foot through his plastic bucket and cut all his leg, was really nasty
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Well, as you know, Ive got a rug rack outside my stable that I keep my 'seasonal' rugs on and all my others I keep in a massive wooden trunk that my Dad made in the tack room.
Ask your Dad, he'll be able to make you one!
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Ive stored stuff in his stable since Ive had him and TBH I think hes too scared to go near anything just incase its a monster!
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His stable is big enough to have his bed one side and storage the other, but thanks for you concern, I do understand what you are saying.
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I have a scaffolding pole secured on a MASSIVE rope in my stable for rugs - was there when i arrived, and a bar outside - but the horse next door can and will pull stuff off the bar so I dint use it. Plus as we are going for BHS approval we are not allowed to have anything other than the most used rugs outside our stables, and technically we have been told that we should have nothing inside the stables - they say they aren't liable for ANYTHING that goes in the stables - everything including the waterbuckets and haynets are put in at our own risk - hense why they dont use them.

We dont have anywhere to actually store rugs, but we are going to see if each barn can get a rug rack at the end of it as its getting stupid as the tack rooms are full - stuff actually gets stored on teh floor and saddles on top of other saddles, yet we have have been told everything else must go in them!!
 
I'm lucky in the fact that my kickboards are about 4ft high and where they end there is a gap between them and the main stable wall so I just pu all my rugs over the kick boards!
 
I don't any more - old livery yard had a length of drain pipe tied across the back about 6ft high against the wall - horse was fine for around 6 months , left rugs alone etc, Boxing Day morning I went down and he had managed to break the end of the pipe (drain pipe breaks jagged) and ripped his eyelid open on it - he had an eye like a toad and eye drops for weeks.
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Never did it again in case it was his actual eye the next time
 
My OH made me one of then, but my boy then went on loan and I moved flats and had no where to store it so it got left at old flat
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Plus how do u move a 7ft pully with just a Saxo????? And to think OH is an engineer and he didnt think of that bit! Still have the pulleys htough so I think a new one will be being made
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Do u think the BHS would approve though??
 
My stable was built with a half height partition so I used to just flop all the rugs over it, but the rats thought it was a wonderful place to live and they ate all my rugs from the inside. Now I keep them all packed away in zip up ug bags and just keep out the ones in daily use.
 
Thanks everyone for the info, Ill bear everything you said in mind.
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Miller - very sad this happened, you've put me off using drain pipe!!

Maybe I could use the same principal but find some kind of foam instead
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i don't keep anything in the stables, too much danger of them getting themselves caught up if they do get bored and start playing. if i really had to, i'd use baler twine and thread it through an old hosepipe, and hang it as high as possible on both sides so the middle was at just the height i could reach.
tbh you're better with an old wheelie bin, totally ratproof and brilliant for rug storage.
 
I don't store rugs in the stable, but store them in the barn. We threw a rope over a roof truss and tied a three-prong cleaning hook on one end. We hang rugs off each hook and hoist it up to the rafter, then secure the rope to a hook on the wall.
 
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