Storage space on yards

[vermillion]

How much storage space for ‘stuff’ is on livery yards?
e.g usual riding tack lives in the tack room, but what about training aids, spare tack, rollers, boots, rugs, spare buckets for washing, as well as the usual grooming and medical kits etc.?

Are these all separate, do you have individual lockers or trunks or are all rugs in a rug room for example? What about winter rugs in summer and vice versa?

Just interested following a conversation with a friend about bountiful storage versus a very militant approach to clutter!

 

[Fjord]

I'm on DIY livery on a farm, so have been lucky enough to be able to rent a stable for all my stuff. I very much doubt I'd be able to keep anywhere near as much on a 'normal' yard.

 

[AmyMay]

We had a large chest sized old freezer or you could have an equivalent sized wooden box. That was it. I’ve never been on a yard that allowed you to leave tack. Rugs that were needed were kept in stables on a rope and drain pipe rug holder. Additional ones you were expected to take home.

 

[scats]

Im very lucky with storage space at my yard. We have a separate container for tack, which I have the whole bottom end of, then the hay barn where I keep feed, feed bins, buckets, rugs chests, my horsebox partition and god knows what else. I also have a spare stable in my barn, but as there’s only me in there at the moment I have rugs hanging everywhere. As a result, I have just accumulated more and more stuff. I’d really struggle if I had the amount of storage space you get on most livery yards.
Previous livery yard I had 3 army cabins for storage, one with each stable I had.

 

[94lunagem]

It’s years since I’ve been on livery but generally never had loads of storage when I was. One yard had lock ups, about the size of a portaloo each, but they got broken into so often you never left anything much beyond feed bins in there. Current rugs were kept in stables on racks or strings. More fool you if you left tack or anything valuable in lock ups.

Another yard, rugs and grooming stuff was kept outside or in stables and we each had a chest freezer or similar sized container for feed and other bits. Rugs when not being used were kept at home. There was an alarmed shipping container for tack but I had an exclusion on my insurance that prevented me leaving mine on site because the yard had more than 25 horses. I parked my trailer on site so travel boots etc lived in there.

 

[poiuytrewq]

At a yard I used to have one of those garden storage wardrobe type things. It took up little space but had the height to fit a lot in.

 

[Snow Falcon]

Gawd, if I ever moved from where I have been for nearly 26yrs I'd have a huge problem!

Edited to alter time!

 

[MereChristmas]

F is on full livery
I have tack in a locked and barred communal room but I usually keep it in the car
bins for feed with a shelf beside it for supplements in the feed room
bins or a chest for rugs, boots etc and a rail to hang wet rugs opposite the stable. I do swap winter rugs for SI rugs in spring.
space for buckets and a cupboard ( mine, some have boxes) for grooming kit, first aid etc outside the stable
hay and straw is in the barn
‘Staff’ know they can change rugs as necessary. i.e. for change of weather or wet rugs
The part llveries have space for their made up haynets in the barn.

I have been their over 2 years and nothing has been lost or used by anyone else

I have space for everything at home in the outdoor and indoor tack rooms because I used to keep my horses at home.

 

[vermillion]

It sounds as though those on DIY have much more opportunity for storage space of everything ‘together’.
Conversation friend is on a yard with storage outside the stables, so storage chests and boxes and rugs either over the stable walls or on racks.
I have accumulated ALOT of stuff I’ve the years and having them at home means I have all the space to spread out! Holiday livery yard has a rug room so rugs labelled and stacked for each horse , space for small grooming kit under saddle rack in tack room, and everything else is somehow ‘hidden’!

 

[MuddyMonster]

I'm on DIY and we have allocated space for everything.

I have space for two feed bins and a garden storage box and a small shelf. I then have a piece of string holding rugs in regular use & boots etc.

The box contains rugs not in regular use, lunging roller, lunge line, first aid kit, spare headcollar etc. Grooming kit & wash down/shampoo bucket lives on top. Lunge whip lives down the side alongside a spare pair of wellies.

We have allocated space for hay and bedding, too.

There's not loads of storage but enough - I don't accumulate loads of extra stuff though!

 

[94lunagem]

I have accumulated ALOT of stuff I’ve the years and having them at home means I have all the space to spread out!

I’m now at home and I can’t really remember how I managed without spreading out, as you describe!

 

[nagblagger]

Gawd, if I ever moved from where I have been for nearly 26hrs I'd have a huge problem!

Do you mean 26 years? If you accumulate all that in 26 hrs i would be worried...

 

[Honey08]

We provide a shed for each livery, which has a locker in it with shelves, a metal feed bin and two good sized wooden shelves, plus a row of coat hooks. There’s also a tack locker in each stable, a rug rail and a line for drying rugs high up on another wall. But lots of people still struggle to store their things! I’m always shocked at how much stuff people have.

 

[vermillion]

We provide a shed for each livery, which has a locker in it with shelves, a metal feed bin and two good sized wooden shelves, plus a row of coat hooks. There’s also a tack locker in each stable, a rug rail and a line for drying rugs high up on another wall. But lots of people still struggle to store their things! I’m always shocked at how much stuff people have.

This all sounds very organised.
You’d be mortified at my tack room- having a bit of a recent clear out I am convinced some of those lesser used rugs have started breeding as there is no way I have acquired so many of the same!

 

[ester]

Current set up has sheds/spare stables for each block for storage (about a shed per 3ish stables) which I think is more generous that it needs to be. Also a heated rug room which is amazing.
Previous just had rugs hung in stables, 1 small tack room shared between 4/5 people, though sometimes a spare stable too.

 

[Surbie]

I've only ever been on DIY and storage space varies wildly. But every yard I have been on has had a secure tack room with minimal storage for a small box of stuff under the saddle rack.

Yard 1: one chest outside boxes, 1.5 pallets of space in the hay tent for feed/hay/bedding, barrows outside barn
Yard 2: third of a stable, no chests allowed outside stables, hay included so no storage for that needed, barrows behind stables
Yard 3: half a stable for everything including barrow
Yard 4: some boxes have storage behind, but it is small. I don't have that, but do have 2 pallets of space in a spare stable for barrow, hay & bedding, a separate secure area to fit my chest & 2 feed bins. It's the most amount of space I've had and I try very hard not to accumulate to fill! Nothing is allowed on the floor outside stables, but I have a bag of things hanging outside, plus rugs, grooming kit and wellies stored inside my horse's stable. Luckily he doesn't mess with things.

eta: shelving has been an absolute godsend! I also have a wardrobe at home of everything not currently being used, so most of the winter rugs are now home, clean and stacked away.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

How much storage space for ‘stuff’ is on livery yards?
e.g usual riding tack lives in the tack room, but what about training aids, spare tack, rollers, boots, rugs, spare buckets for washing, as well as the usual grooming and medical kits etc.?

Are these all separate, do you have individual lockers or trunks or are all rugs in a rug room for example? What about winter rugs in summer and vice versa?

Just interested following a conversation with a friend about bountiful storage versus a very militant approach to clutter!

Here pending space 1 person can have a trunk in tackroom and all the liveries have the use of a old chest freezer. they also have rug racks in the stable for rugs in use and they may keep a box or trunk in the stable too, diy can store 10 bales hay and have a pallets for their bedding on the back yard.

 

[ycbm]

One yard I was on had 1m cubes of thick metal with two keys for each door. It took me a while to work out they were ex MOD ammunition storage cabinets . They were excellent, plenty of space for rugs and tack, dry, solid, secure. They also allowed storage boxes along the front of the stable you rented.
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[ycbm]

Gawd, if I ever moved from where I have been for nearly 26yrs I'd have a huge problem!

You're one of few people who would know just how much I sold and gave away after 31 years with more space than sense! When did I ever need 4 wheelbarrows?
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[MNMyShiningStars]

Both DIY yards we were on previously had our own small storage area directly behind the stables, maybe 3ft x 10ft . Hay and straw were kept communally though and paid for by kilo or barrow so that didnt need to fit in there.

Now we have a sole use yard we have a shed full of trugs of rugs and the rest is kept in locked tack/feed room. No tack kept there now after a break in, so mainly just my feed room and boots and bits in there now. Rugs being used kept on hooks in the stables.

 

[Esmae]

You're one of few people who would know just how much I sold and gave away after 31 years with more space than sense! When did I ever need 4 wheelbarrows?
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I have just donated all of my "stuff" including saddles/bridles etc to Bransby. I had to do 3 trips with a fully laden car, and have still got a couple of rugs and a few bits in case the old girl needs it. I still have 3 wheelbarrows. It is madness how much gear you accumulate over time.

 

[Birker2020]

We have lots of space where I am, I have the side of my stable as I'm on the end of a row. I also have a six foot section for first aid kit, spare buckets, trolley, and boxes of saddle cloths as well as a chest full of stuff. That's under covered in a little room off the wash box. In the barn I also have enough room for 2 bales of round hay (I was getting through a round bale every 24 days so was having two at a time) and I have room for other bits and bobs and then about 24 bales of shavings and wood pellets (I used to buy them in bulk). I also have about six foot for my big thee division feed bin and a dustbin at the side. But I have been on the yard for nearly two decades so....

 

[vermillion]

We have lots of space where I am, I have the side of my stable as I'm on the end of a row. I also have a six foot section for first aid kit, spare buckets, trolley, and boxes of saddle cloths as well as a chest full of stuff. That's under covered in a little room off the wash box. In the barn I also have enough room for 2 bales of round hay (I was getting through a round bale every 24 days so was having two at a time) and I have room for other bits and bobs and then about 24 bales of shavings and wood pellets (I used to buy them in bulk). I also have about six foot for my big thee division feed bin and a dustbin at the side. But I have been on the yard for nearly two decades so....

Gosh you have a lot of space!
I hadn’t given much thought to hay and bedding storage as in my mind hay is in a hay barn.
It seems that every yard is different, and presumably depends on stable layouts and sizes. Those of you with storage behind your stables, is that like a little tack room? A (now long since closed) yard near me had boxes with a false wall behind, with a little tack and storage area at the back of each stables. Quite a neat idea in principle but feed making often included the ponies trying to join you through the doorway!

 

[Birker2020]

Gosh you have a lot of space!
I hadn’t given much thought to hay and bedding storage as in my mind hay is in a hay barn.
It seems that every yard is different, and presumably depends on stable layouts and sizes. Those of you with storage behind your stables, is that like a little tack room? A (now long since closed) yard near me had boxes with a false wall behind, with a little tack and storage area at the back of each stables. Quite a neat idea in principle but feed making often included the ponies trying to join you through the doorway!

On the one yard we had a shelf about four foot long and about 2ft depth and everything and I mean everything had to fit onto that.

 

[94lunagem]

I have just donated all of my "stuff" including saddles/bridles etc to Bransby. I had to do 3 trips with a fully laden car, and have still got a couple of rugs and a few bits in case the old girl needs it. I still have 3 wheelbarrows. It is madness how much gear you accumulate over time.

I've done similar in the last 6 months or so, admittedly I sold my saddles but all my 6'9" rugs have been donated and various saddle pads and other 'stuff'. I have an 11hh and a 13hh and will never have a big one again, space isn't an issue as I have a spare stable as a feed and store room, but I find you can't see what you've got that fits the ones you have if you keep hold of too much stuff that fits the ones you don't!

 

[MNMyShiningStars]

Our yards had the design showing in the link below (without the V doors) under the layout section with the tack room behind:

Bespoke Stables

Bespoke Stables

cheval-liberte.co.uk

 

[melody-maker]

Those of you with storage behind your stables, is that like a little tack room? A (now long since closed) yard near me had boxes with a false wall behind, with a little tack and storage area at the back of each stables. Quite a neat idea in principle but feed making often included the ponies trying to join you through the doorway!

This is what we have at the livery yard where my share pony lives - lockable tack room at the back of each stable. It’s a good amount of space, but can be difficult to navigate/utilise properly and still be able to walk down it because it’s narrow. But tack lives there, rugs (or on hangers in the stable itself), grooming kit, boots etc. I also keep my riding gear there, except my hat.

Feed lives in the feed room, but pony certainly knows that her treats live in the tack room and would like to join me in there!

 

[Annagain]

When we moved yards I went from having loads of storage to hardly any. I'm not a big buyer of things but still had to have a big sort out. I gave a lot of stuff to a local charity. At the new yard, I have a garden storage box outside Wiggy's stable for rugs & numnahs and a filing cabinet for bits and bobs. I then have a locker for my boots, hats body protector etc. and a shared tack locker in the tackroom. This is for 2 horses as Archie's stable is in the corner and he doesn't have any space outside it. It's only because I have Wiggy as well that I have any storage space at all. Anybody who uses Archie's stable after me will really struggle.

 

[Surbie]

Gosh you have a lot of space!
I hadn’t given much thought to hay and bedding storage as in my mind hay is in a hay barn.
It seems that every yard is different, and presumably depends on stable layouts and sizes. Those of you with storage behind your stables, is that like a little tack room? A (now long since closed) yard near me had boxes with a false wall behind, with a little tack and storage area at the back of each stables. Quite a neat idea in principle but feed making often included the ponies trying to join you through the doorway!

We buy feed, hay & bedding through the yard, so deliveries can happen daily Mon-Fri if you want. Those with the space behind stables also have to put hay and bedding there too, so the frequent deliveries are essential as they are quite poky. And yes, hopeful fuzzy faces through the door are an incentive to do feeds while they are out.

 

[Green Bean]

It is a no thank you to any yard that has limited storage, and defo for one that won't let you store your tack. Although, there are always equestrian car boots to go to if have accumulated too much 'stuff' (we are all guilty of that, sigh)