What do you leave at the yard?

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Just a follow on from the lady who had her rugs stolen. What do you leave at the yard?

My Girl is now on holiday over winter as I need a knee op next week, so time off for her. I am taking all her tack home, Lunging gear, whips e.t.c. I have a locked box, but even so, I would like to know everything is safe.

I don't like doing it, but my rugs are in the feed room next to my stuff. (I have so many there isnt enough room in the tack room).

We do have some magpies and I like to check my stuff daily.

So what do you leave at the yard and what do you take home?
 
I leave my cheap tack at the yard in a secure storage unit that is hidden away. The rugs are normally either at home or if we are using them in my stables or on the horses or in the case where they were stolen, drying in my barn :(

We have a police rest stop outside our yard, where the motorway police and motorway officers are always parked up, day and night. Its a private road with no public access, if your car isn't registered you can't get to my yard...sadly the effers who took my rugs came across the newly harvested fields a rundown bridle path and then half a mile away is the exit off the bridlepath to the dual carriage way...these people either looked at google and worked out how to get there across the farmland or were locals.

I sometimes leave old stuff like rugs in the stables all year round because if they get stolen it doesn't bother me but I wouldn't normally leave anythingthat I use or that is worth something in the barn or stables. My secure unit isn't known to be there by anyone other than myself and my hubby.
 
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Blimey! They went to a lot of effort! They are evil so an so's!

I do worry about stuff going missing. Our tack room is secure, but you never know. We have shows at our yard and stuf has been known to go walkies. Even stupid stuff like sponges and scapers!

My expensive new saddle is coming home tonight!
 
howengold said:
...sadly the effers who took my rugs came across the newly harvested fields a rundown bridle path and then half a mile away is the exit off the bridlepath to the dual carriage way...these people either looked at google and worked out how to get there across the farmland or were locals.
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This beggers belief!! What idiots.

My in laws had a out house broken into. They got away with £13k worth of stuff....including a massive ANVIL !!

The lengths some people go to really baffles me.
 
I leave everything but only because my house is on the yard :D When I used to be on a livery yard I left mucking out tools, grooming/first aid kit, rugs etc but tack all went home. I used to have a storage area at the back of my stables and the only way into it was through the end stable. I had one of my mares in that stable because she was rather useful at pinning people to the wall if they went in her stable :eek: :o She made a good guard dog though :D
 
Welll its my yard about 200metres from home with a secure lock up....so I leave feed and mucking out equipment, rugs and grooming stuff at the yard, and all tack at home. I've had my tack nicked before ( from a livery yard) and its a right pain (and expense) to replace.....
 
I currently leave everything except my saddle at the yard as it's not being used and I don't really have anywhere secure to keep it at the yard.

As for the lengths some people go to nick stuff... at home we've had people steal a wheelbarrow to wheel £2000 of car tyres across a very large ploughed field...
 
I leave everything at the yard, I just don't have space at home. The tack is in a securely locked and alarmed building and the owners live on site and have cctv. I guess my rugs are at risk and perhaps I should take them home when I'm not using them through the summer.
 
I leave everything at the yard, all rugs, saddles, bridles, both of my pairs of boots, even my competition gear (top hat etc.). However it is safe, YO lives on site and everything gets locked up at night and during the lunch break.
 
Everything, yard is at home, tackroom locked, and now I have two very territorial GSD's living in the barn after evening stables.

Unless you have a death wish you don't even open the doors when the dogs are in there.

Of course, here, thieves come armed so they'd probably just shoot the dogs.

As far as I am concerned, thieves can take what they like, it's all insured and replaceable, I won't be arguing with the business end of a rifle or whatever.
 
My mum lives on site, so she has everything in her house for me!! Saying that, the rugs and feed, lunge line and headcollars are by the stable, but all tack and other equptment is indoors.
 
I too leave everything at the yard - right down to my riding boots and hat. Nothing is locked away and nothing has ever gone missing (touch wood)

I take my tack home but only because I have a sharer and she doesn't have her own tack room key.
 
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and everything else except tack!...that lives in my car :)
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Is it insured if you do that though?

Everything is left at the yard. Tack is in an alarmed and padlocked area and yard is padlocked. I did check my policy very carefully to make sure I was covered though as they can be things like "need to be in a room with a 5 bar level lock".

But thieves can be really persistent pigs. I knew a yard with CCTV and they had (god knows how) checked out the yard, worked out where the CCTV was and came in through the back of the estate and stole jumps!
 
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