Trailer mats

[Elanorg]

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best, easily removable mats for trailers? I have a Rice trailer with an aluminium reinforced wood floor. Is it best to have one mat cover the entire area or just 2 strips, with a gap under the partition? I ideally want something easy to remove to I can make sure the floor stays sound.

Also, would anyone advise treating the wood with anything to seal it? It has very strong deep planks but they don't look as they have been treated.

Thanks

 

[Birker2020]

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best, easily removable mats for trailers? I have a Rice trailer with an aluminium reinforced wood floor. Is it best to have one mat cover the entire area or just 2 strips, with a gap under the partition? I ideally want something easy to remove to I can make sure the floor stays sound.

Also, would anyone advise treating the wood with anything to seal it? It has very strong deep planks but they don't look as they have been treated.

Thanks

I have exactly the same trailer as you and I have two mats in my trailer that fit width ways I think they are 6ft x 4ft. This leaves a gap at the front,. From the photo below you can see where the rubber mat ends at the start of the floor under the haynet starts. Rubber is in line with breast plates. Dad had to jiggle around a bit with them so that the partition still 'floats' above the matting. We were also conscious not to buy to heavy matting, to try and keep the weight down (as you know its a light weight trailer - mine is 650KG), so we opted for a lighter weight matting with the bubble texture on top for grip I think it was about £30-£35 per mat.

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Below shows horse stood in trailer.

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Dad did all the trailer inside himself. Painted all the walls and ceiling, varnished the wood, put down the hardwood which he'd bought and tongue and grooved all himself on his lathe down the shed. The partition is set at 3/4 - 1/4 with the 3/4 in favour of the horse so he has more room to spread his legs which is what the second photo shows.

The scruffy note on the inside of the trailer is my reminder 'take out studs!'.

 

[Beausmate]

I have had two Rice trailers (neither of which were anyway close to 650kg - more like 900kg +!) both with rubber mats. I have four mats, which makes them a lot easier to move in a confined space. I think they are about 0.75-1" thick, so they are cut out around the blocks the partition bolts into. When it is parked up I lift the mats, roll them up, tie with baling string and leave them in there.

I took the floor out and stood the boards in creosote type stuff for a while, but a couple of good coats in situ should suffice. Best to do it at a time when you can leave the trailer open to let the vapours out!

When I refurbished the rear ramp, I painted it with Johnson's 10 year roofseal and covered it with thin rubber matting. Roofseal is a rubbery waterproof paint for coating flat roofs and the like, but I don't know how it would fare with urine etc.

 

[Birker2020]

Sorry mine is a Rice Richardson made in 1996. My mats are not stuck together although I think they may be screwed down to the floor.