Very lucky horse rescued after getting trapped jumping a fixed breast bar

[Squeak]

I'm not sure if a couple of people on this thread are confused and thinking this is a horsebox with a half wall straight into the grooms area? It's one where there's a tiny gap between the tack lockers and a solid wall/ door into the living and to be fair I wouldn't have thought it was likely to cause the same issue - glad I have seen this though as I now know they're also to be avoided. Re horses getting whiplash in a stallion stall from sudden breaking - as Red said, unless horses are travelling forwards, when you stop suddenly it's their quarters/ the bulkhead of the lorry that take the hit, a breast bar would be no help at all, it's why it's so important for a bulkhead to be properly reinforced.

I actually think the collapsible breast bar into the tack locker would be the solution to making it possible to free the horse with sloping lockers and a longer partition (I wonder if they moved the partition in this scenario before or after the horse got stuck as if it was where it is in the photos then that also wouldn't have helped).

When I had to use ERS they did allow me to ask not to have a half wall in the rescue vehicle - however I was a bit disappointed they had no idea what I was talking about and still sent a half wall lorry! Luckily the transporter rang me to confirm location before they got too far and I checked with them and it was a half wall. I was a bit surprised that they were even using transporters who have half wall lorries.

 

[Tiddlypom]

There are some secondhand boxes for sale on the manufacturer website. I have edited out the identifying name stamps.

Some really sturdy looking and safe stallion boxes which I’d happily buy if I was loaded (I’m not). And this, which appears to have the same internal configuration as the one in the trapped horse incident.

Intrusive tack lockers and a welded on breast bar leading to two narrow doors. Death trap.

 

[ester]

It’s those tack lockers being below the bar that’s wild. Why not at least have them level

 

[honetpot]

There are some secondhand boxes for sale on the manufacturer website. I have edited out the identifying name stamps.

Some really sturdy looking and safe stallion boxes which I’d happily buy if I was loaded (I’m not). And this, which appears to have the same internal configuration as the one in the trapped horse incident.

Intrusive tack lockers and a welded on breast bar leading to two narrow doors. Death trap.

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I completely agree, if you can not get out easily, how can a horse?
My other big no are side internal tack lockers on the bigger lorries which the bulk head goes in to the horse area. I have seen at least three horse try and climb them, the last was a pony I sold that tried to get through the window, broke the window and bent the bars. If you are lucky they just get their legs wrapped in the haynets.

 

[Blanche]

My horse actually got wedged in anti weave bars going over into the living of a 3.5 ton lorry, and broke his ribs. By shear luck DSW managed to shove him back over but the firefighters were on the way to chop him out had he not managed this as rear door was far too small for him to be able to have got out of.

The safest partitions are either stallion stalls or robust sloped 'jump shelves' that even if the horse gets up on they can't go anywhere and slip back off.

I had a NH store try to jump out of a stable over an anti weave grille. He must have got stuck as it was bent back into the stable and his injuries. It wasn’t a flimsy store bought one but a really solid one that took two people to lift into place. It had bent at an angle so I was unable to get him out, good thing there was no fire. I would not use them at all now.