Travelling with haynets attached to the outside of the box

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This has probably been asked before, but I followed a lorry on my way home last night that had two (soaked) haynets attached to the ramp.

I've seen this many times before but it just made me think - What if the string snapped (which they do, very easily) and the net fell in to the carriageway, either blocking it or causing someone to swerve; and would the hay not become contaminated with mud and general road yickiness?

I can see the reasons for - take up less space inside, horses can't get at them, won't drip inside if they've been soaked etc - i'm just not sure I could do it myself.

What are your thoughts, and if you do, what are your reasons for doing it?
 
Yuck! I have a trailer and put haynet and a kettle of boiling water in a super strength dustbin bag, it then gets the top tied up tight and goes in the boot of my car.
 
I always think
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In a trailer
[*]just take some pre made haynets in the front

[*]a bale with you
[*] or get a hay bag zip it in and put in the back of a car

horse box

  • put in an under locker or put in a spare partition horse area
    again pre made haynets in spare horse section again put in hay bag.

oil debri off the rd yeeukkkk
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all over the hay
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Massive, massive hate of this... not only for safety reasons but you wouldnt tie your lunch on the back of the trailer and expect to eat it would you? yet people expect their horses to eat hay thats been outside and picking up all the fmes, dust and debris.
 
Funnily enough I also followed a horsebox doing this yesterday.
They had 4 large ones tied to the rear of the lorry, and they were all full - god knows where they were going as it was 6pm and they hadnt been touched by a horse?
I think it's a revolting thing to do, and anyone who does it has clearly had a brain bypass IMO
 
I saw this the other day, one tied to the side of an equi-trek. I genuinely thought they'd forgot about it! My first thought was how dangerous it was
 
You know, Im thinking I havent seen this done for a long time, I used to see it done quite a lot years ago but cant think of the last time I actually saw one. I will be looking out for it now :)
 
I'm glad i'm not the only one that thinks that then! I just wonder if any other users would even consider tying something so heavy and large on that way - I wonder about the legalities of it all!
 
No I never tie haynets to the ramp just make sure I take enough with me and store in side lorry. My friend years ago tied her haynet to the passenger door of her car so that she could take to where the box was and knocked a cyclist off his bike on the way :D:D
 
When I travel Bails the haynets go in the 'living area' of the lorry, or if he's in a trailer, they just get tied so they can eat them as they travel and the spares generally go on the backseat. That's why my car is such a tip, probably got half a bale of hay in my footwells lol :o
 
I can't understand who it is that does this?! I see it all over the place - affilliated eventing, county shows, show jumping etc, why do people think it's a good idea?!
 
I've not seen it done for years around here. I used to just tie up 2 very full haynets in the trailer and make sure there was enough to last the whole day between the 2 for both journeys an dthe day at the show. I wouldn't dream of letting my horse eat it with all the fumes from the vehicles on it.
 
if it fell off the driver could be done for an unsafe load, as to whether it's legal in the first place, no idea.
it's not the thought of the exhaust fumes etc that bothers me as lets face it the hay has already been subjected to the tractor fumes and being pushed through a baler and if it's been trailered from a field to farm or yard it's already been exposed to fumes and road debris and once stored the usual mouse/rat activity, it's more that it looks bloody messy and could be distracting to other drivers.
 
I saw a trailer with this yesterday going along the M27. The trailer itself was throwing up all sorts of muck and spray that ment I had to keep well back to be able to see so god knows what those nets would have been like.
 
I used to live in Madagascar and there you'd see chickens, turkeys and even goats tied upside down by their legs to the outside of lorries because the insides would be stuffed to the gills with people. What luxury we live in that we can choose to put our haynets inside our lorries with our animals.

My preference would be to have everything both animate and inanimate on the inside of the lorry where possible.
 
i hate seeing nets hanging up on the outside of trailers/lorries. i've been driving down a lane and there was a haynet hanging up on the driver side of a trailer, it was a tight fit and the net got caught on my mirror and nearly took it off.
they can get hooked on branches on the passenger side, cars on the drivers side. get dirty, cause a distraction, blocks your view a bit more (if on the side) and so many other reasons not to do it.
 
Me and my friends do this sometimes and neither of us have never ever given it a second thought until now! Both out ponies need to have soaked hay and friends horse inhales hay so it need to be out with his reach. So any one got any suggestions on how to travel spare soked haynets that wont damage the inside of my friends fancy landcruiser and wont flood the trailer floor! x
 
Taisypops what about getting hay bags? Or maybe some really thick (like the garden ones) bin bags and tripple bagging it? Maybe put some tarp down just incase it leaks ?

I'm sure there's loads of ideas :) we're lucky that we don't have to soak ours! Makes it soooo much easier xx
 
I think it's nasty to hang them on the outside. Not so much from the fumes, but from the crap thrown up from the road. I know what the outside of my car feels like after a trip. I don't think any animal should be forced to eat that.

Taisypops said:
Me and my friends do this sometimes and neither of us have never ever given it a second thought until now! Both out ponies need to have soaked hay and friends horse inhales hay so it need to be out with his reach. So any one got any suggestions on how to travel spare soked haynets that wont damage the inside of my friends fancy landcruiser and wont flood the trailer floor! x
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Tie them inside a strong bin bag, or tie a trug to the trailer wall and stand then in that. The big flat ones are ideal. (Bet they'd stand in the boot, too.)
 
hmmm...maybe a big trug would work......would need to go in the trailer though as dont think it would fit in the boot as we usually have passengers and the tack need to go in the boot usually with the dog! Wonder if the greedy highland would manage to get his greedy chops on it if we tied a trug to the front of the trailer. you think it would be unsafe to securly tie nets to the middle of the back ramp wrapped in something to keep the road dirt off them? x
 
As far as i am aware it is actually illegal to tie them to the outside of the vehicle as they present an unsafe load and hazard to other drivers on the road.

As to it picking up debris and fumes etc, well doesn't it do that when it travels from the field to the barn and then from the barn to the yard?
 
Boysy said:
As far as i am aware it is actually illegal to tie them to the outside of the vehicle as they present an unsafe load and hazard to other drivers on the road.

As to it picking up debris and fumes etc, well doesn't it do that when it travels from the field to the barn and then from the barn to the yard?
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nowhere near to the extent that driving at speed on roads do. if you look at air currents round lorries and trailers you will realise that the air gets sucked into the back of the vehicle not through the front so ALL the muck is getting sucked straight onto the nets. Look at the front of a trailer/lorry then look at the back. which end is dirtier...
 
i would never do this.
All that dirt on the hay and expect the horse to eat it.
Our family even don't pick dandilions for the bunnies if they are to near the road.
Same reason, to much dirt and fumes on them.
 
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