Vibes needed and a warning

OMG. I got cold shivers reading your post.
Hope you and your neddy are OK and sending lots of hugs, love and good vibes your way.
Can't believe someone would be so callous as to sell a trailer in that condition knowing it could (and did) lead to such a horrible incident.
Wishing Wings a speedy recovery:)
 
Poor Wings, hope he makes a good recovery! I took my trailer in for its service recently, and it needs a new floor - so nothing will be travelling in it until that is installed! It has been checked annually, and I check it by bouncing on it when I clean it, but it only took a few months for it to rot out! I am going to have an aluminium floor in.
 
hope your horse is making a good recovery! everyones worst nightmare! BUT SORRY i cant believe you didnt check the floor when you bought it! ok you have been had on the condition of the floor but it really is your responsibility to make sure it is safe BEFORE you go off out and about! and alloy floors look completely different to wooden floors. hoping your horse recovers well, and you get a new floor in the trailer.
 
OMG, sorry but I still am not believing these replies

No wonder there are so many accidents involving trailer floors.

I dont want to jump on anyone in particular, but for gods sake, do you know how much a horse or two weighs. And the extra stress if they mess about when loading, unloading or travelling.

For those who dont know how to do it properly, go to your local trailer centre and ask them to show you.

I am aware that I'm a bit OCD on this subject but I have heard some real horror stories, probably true because of their source. I have also witnessed a woman on the next yard patching a hole in her Rice triple (which she actually carried 3 Dales ponies and stuffed two shetlands in the front. She put a piece of carpet under the rubber mat.
 
Sorry going off at a tangent, my mare damaged the inside of her good by the coronet band she got lots of granulation tissue and needed a plaster cast to stabilise the wound she had about 5 weeks box rest then 2 months off to let the good grow and stabilise hope all goes well
 
Hi Vikki,
I won't join in the lecturing about floors, I think you're dealing with enough! I just wanted to say to those people asking for servicing receipts to not rely on these. They're very easy to fake for those that want to. I'm lucky to have a mechanic as an OH and friends who build boxes and refurb trailers, so would always have them check them, regardless of what a seller told me.

For his hoof, if box rest is difficult, is an Easyboot RX not an option? Assuming he's not badly lame on that hoof? They're completely enclosed and can take dressings inside - just thinking it might be easier on you and him. Hope he's fighting fit, soon. :)
 
What a scary thing to happen, I hope your boy makes a full recovery.
I recently bought a 3.5t vauxhall movano... Assured by the owner that there was a steel bulkhead In between the two bits of ply that separate the horses from the cab... THANK GOD I took it apart when I got home because the only thing preventing a ton of horses entering the cab and killing me in an accident was the two flimsy bits of ply wood! No steel, no nothing! Furious doesn't come close... They sold me the box knowing that I'd be taking my little boy out with me! People have no conscience when money's involved!
 
Thanks for the vibes, he's much happier in himself now, and after some struggle to get the Bute and antibiotics into him, we've now got it sussed, and he seems to be doing well. I think we're getting the vet out again at the end of this week to make sure everything is looking alright, but he isn't lame on that hoof at all.

In hindsight, we should have checked the floor, but I think we did have receipts of the floor being done, so thought it had been done, but clearly not. In the future, we'll be a lot more careful about checking the floor.
 
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