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I am searching for companies or design templates for internal stalls for a tie up area, to use for tieing up grass liveries for tacking - and general break from the weather. Does anyone have any contacts? Our yard owner is willing to build them if we can get a pattern!
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Tie rings in a field shelter?

I wouldn't have thought anyone builds stalls these days as they are horrendous to work in/around and completely unsuitable for a tie space to groom/tack up in
 
Casey76 said:
I wouldn't have thought anyone builds stalls these days as they are horrendous to work in/around and completely unsuitable for a tie space to groom/tack up in
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really? gosh, we had them for ponies and horses at a RS I worked for ages ago and they worked pretty well-ponies tacked up and untacked all day long :)
 
Thanks, I have contacted Monarch as they are the only ones I could find. Their stable separators are about £500 each ... gulp!

Having the area stalled out will be much safer and enable us to get more horses in the area whilst massively reducing the chance of accidents, they will also have bedding as it will be easier to muck out. At the moment we can only get 3 in safely, tied up short, on concrete making a lovely mess :)
 
MotherOfChickens said:
really? gosh, we had them for ponies and horses at a RS I worked for ages ago and they worked pretty well-ponies tacked up and untacked all day long :)
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Maybe the stalls in France are like the boxes - tiny! certainly the couple of times my old boy was stalled (over lunch when on all day rides), the stalls were small enough that the horses had to be backed out as there wasn't enough room to turn around, and not enough room for a groom to comfortably manouever tack around to tack up etc. I think they were only 3' wide?
 
Stalls work OK, I've worked at places that still use them and they were standard for the majority of horses for hundreds of years. As a temporary measure you could try hanging bails (planks or beams suspended from the ceiling separating the horses). We used to use them at Pony Club camp eons ago, in the farmer's old milking shed.
 
Casey76 said:
Maybe the stalls in France are like the boxes - tiny! certainly the couple of times my old boy was stalled (over lunch when on all day rides), the stalls were small enough that the horses had to be backed out as there wasn't enough room to turn around, and not enough room for a groom to comfortably manouever tack around to tack up etc. I think they were only 3' wide?
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I'm not sure what the standard is, but most stalls I've been in, in the UK are nearer 6' wide I think :)
 
lbe said:
Thanks, I have contacted Monarch as they are the only ones I could find. Their stable separators are about £500 each ... gulp!

Having the area stalled out will be much safer and enable us to get more horses in the area whilst massively reducing the chance of accidents, they will also have bedding as it will be easier to muck out. At the moment we can only get 3 in safely, tied up short, on concrete making a lovely mess :)
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God thats expensive surely someone with good building knowlege could make some partitions and fix them to the wall and ground for you much cheaper.
 
You need a handyman/builder.
He would need:
Kango - for digging hole in concrete
Posts (4 x 4 min but 6 x 6 best - & 8 ft long) - for putting into the concrete and also on back wall, sink 1 third height of post into ground.
Cement - for mixing up to bed posts in
Boards (scaffold planks work well) - for attaching to posts to make dividing wall to around 4ft high (or higher)

Suggest 3 posts for each partition - 1 on back wall, 1 x 4 ft away & 1 at end.
Relatively easy to do. I divided a couple of bigger boxes by doing this for small ponies one winter with the partition about 4 ft high - and hung a small gate on the end of the partition.
Would just as easily work for stalling, just board on BOTH sides for safety.

Good luck OP :)
 
sarahann1 said:
I'm not sure what the standard is, but most stalls I've been in, in the UK are nearer 6' wide I think :)
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They certainly weren't that wide at the gite I stayed at! No room for horse to lie down at all - I had to creep in sideways as there wasn't enough room for me and horse to stand side by side.

Then again, you are lucky if your box is 6' wide in my experience :o At the moment I have what I consider to be a big box, and it is 9' x 8.25'
 
Casey76 said:
They certainly weren't that wide at the gite I stayed at! No room for horse to lie down at all - I had to creep in sideways as there wasn't enough room for me and horse to stand side by side.

Then again, you are lucky if your box is 6' wide in my experience :o At the moment I have what I consider to be a big box, and it is 9' x 8.25'
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Eek, tiny, might be an Alsace thing as where I rode/lived in the Vienne and Charente 12x10's were commonplace in american barn setups. No mounting blocks though, anywhere what's that about??.

One RS in France used to pile all the small ponies in together waiting for their lessons loose, in two stable spaces with no middle partition, just slip rails to the front, it was carnage and my son was asked to run the gauntlet to remove his mount, he was 5 at the time.
 
I know a few yards, both very posh who rein them back into the stalls and cross tie for getting sorted, and 'normal' RSs who use them for RDA cobs/horses working through the day. The RDA ones are separated by handing heavy planks, the RS ones brick in-between, the posh ones are made by one of posh stable makers and match the rest of the yard.
 
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