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krissybradley

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I am trying to find out if there is anything like the tui safety loading device on the market or whether anyone has any experience of how they work and are fitted. The company is no longer in business and I need to find someone who is either selling one, or knows how they work and fitted.

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Don't know about the device you are talking about but I train all my horses so they can be loaded and unloaded by one person it not hard to do it just takes a little consistent practise.
 
Totally agree with Goldesnstar practice practice and more practice and all on the days when you have nowhere to go and nothing better to do so if you have to patiently keep asking for 3 hours - they will get bored before you do!
 
krissybradley said:
try three years of practice, ages 23 he already knows he is stronger than me, he rears and injures himself, cannot reinvent the wheel,
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Usually yes you can reinvent the wheel ask round locally to you there should be a trainer who can help you with this, there are lots of ways to deal with bad loaders I don't know where you are but can recommend Richard Maxwell for loading problems.
 
I worry about mechanical devices to keep them in while you sort the ramp etc out - one more thing to panic them as far as I can see. I had a problem loader, and taught him to load with reinforcement training. Then I taught him to stand on the cue "Wait there" outside the trailer and then inside, eventually while I trundled around and came back to treat him through the jockey door. He now waits while I get the ramp up (don't use the breeching strap because the partition is swung over to make life easier for us both) and go back to get in and replace the partition. So sorry, can't help
 
TBH I wouldn't have thought any system of ropes etc would force a horse that unwilling into a trailer, he'll still rear and hurt himself (possibly more on whatever it is he's tied up in).
Leave trailer in field with his hard feed in every day until he realises it's a nice place to be.
Practice your general groundwork so he leads nicely over a rug on the floor, past scary plastic feed bags etc.
Build up to the leading into a trailer slowly if he's that bad.

Perhaps look at other threads on here about all the other hints and tips to practice.

I really believe you absolutely can teach an old dog (horse) new tricks.
 
look in the nicest possible way i am not looking for a lecture on how to load my horse, monty roberts couldnt do it, a dually headcollar didnt work, I am looking for information on a tui device, thanks everyone I have tried for three years for many many hours as have other people, I live near a very busy road, I am on my own, I have been advised by numerous people to get one of these devices, including a natural horseman ship person, as it is safer then either of us being injured or the horse running one way over a cattle grid, which he has done after breaking a stallion leather and chain lead rope amd onto a main road the other wa. I do not have anywhere else to load. This is not a rope system, it is a safety system which fits in the trailer it is designed that in the event of of an accident the horse can be released without having to enter the trailer. SO PLEASE ITS NOT ADVICE ON LOADING I NEED ITS INFORMATION OF THE LOADING DEVICE PLEASE
 
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Goldenstar said:
Don't know about the device you are talking about but I train all my horses so they can be loaded and unloaded by one person it not hard to do it just takes a little consistent practise.
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Same here. Into any transport and they all stand calmly tied up while I close partitions/bars/ramps with no fuss.
 
OP not sure this will really help you as you've still got to get him fully into the trailer and vaguely still before you can use this to do up the breach bar.

If him panicing when you leave his head is the issue a cheaper option would be a bucket of feed over the front ramp door - he'll only get a few mouthfuls while you nip back and do it up

Good luck
 
I don't mind if you believe this or not, I certainly didn't until I tried it. Ben has been a right pig to load, I did manage eventually to get him loading in my old stock trailer, but when I got the new slant load he was having nothing to do with it. I thought I had tried everything then this way was suggested.

Take a lasso, proper lariat type, which I just happen to have here and sling it around his butt like this

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and then just load him in. It worked, simple and as straightforward as that, tried him without he reared and got away from me,, caught him up, put the rope on his butt, walked him up, kept his head rope with gentle contact, and put more pressure on the butt line, and within seconds he had got his front feet on, couple more seconds and he was on.

I have tried a lunge line before and he hated it, made him worse, but this just worked. Well worth the investment if you can buy one over there. Ben I can now load on my own everytime, and have even managed to get Willow back in, which was a huge step as well.
 
OP I know your problem. I have not heard of what you are on about but just looked at the link Texel posted and I think I might look in to that some more.

Had my lad 5 years some days he will walk in no issues other he just will not. No reason at all. Some times it is on the way out some times on the way home. He is not scared just strange. Done all the stuff people have said etc but does not help as the day you go for just a practise he will walk in and out fine but the day you want to come home from a comp. Horse says NO.

My youngster that has been taught by me is excellent...

I feel you pain.
 
Only a thought but if your problem is horse backing out b4 you can get the back bar up have you thought about a different trailer such as side loading, I can stay almost at horses head and pull partition across in the equitrek ! U could also lead in, clip to ring via quick release but keep rope u led in with on headcollar as well to grab just in case he tries a bunk as u pull partition across. Good luck, I had nightmare with my chap in past
 
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