What's with the breed of horsey people that...

Arizahn said:
Ha! I left him at home alone today for half an hour whilst I walked the dog. He was so caught up in Facebook that he didn't notice he had lost the circulation in his hand beneath the cast! Came home and his fingers were er, zombie like...had to send him back to blimmin hospital!
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Ah. There's no hope for some folk, eh - the survival instinct passed him by!

Hope it heals up ok!
 
Stands to reason, you seem to read some of the same books I do and I wear my pants on my head, Mondays and Thursdays. By process of elimination therefore, you must be similarly afflicted :D !!!!!
 
Arizahn said:
I still use marigolds to muck out. Too annoying when poo falls through the prongs of the fork and the shavings don't.
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Bllllleeeeeeuuuuuugggggghhhhh! Asides from my OCD biggest straw beds ever, this is why I hate shavings. Fiddly horrible things that result in you on your hands and knees picking horse currants out by hand! *ear cringes*
 
RunToEarth said:
Bllllleeeeeeuuuuuugggggghhhhh! Asides from my OCD biggest straw beds ever, this is why I hate shavings. Fiddly horrible things that result in you on your hands and knees picking horse currants out by hand! *ear cringes*
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I bend rather than kneel. Unless Tom Hiddlestone walks by...:D Anyhow, it's only recycled grass!
 
Capriole said:
Stands to reason, you seem to read some of the same books I do and I wear my pants on my head, Mondays and Thursdays. By process of elimination therefore, you must be similarly afflicted :D !!!!!
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Haha yes, indeedy :D Always good to have a kindred spirit...!

Arizahn said:
Thanks. He wants to have children. I am worried. Mad Cat Lady crossed with Human Lemming, not a good mix...
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Mad Cat Lemmings? Sounds interesting!
 
I completely agree with you OP! You worked hard for your things, and shouldn't have to lock them up for them to be safe! I was at a yard 18 months or so ago, and ended up locking my feed up as the YO's boy would just grab a handful of whomevers was closest to catch his pony with!

I had to scribble my name over EVERYTHING, and even then things went missing!

I completely underatand going over and growling, it's not on when they know they are your tools! They are just tools, but I bet when they were broken they wouldn't bother putting money towards them to replace them!

Bexcy-bee x
 
Thank you Arizahn :)

Bexcy-bee - thank you, that is my point. I've already forked out -scxuse the pun!, £30 at the start of the year for a new fork as someone else burst and bent the prongs on my last one .

Perhaps I should go back to my marigolds then problem solved :p
 
holeymoley said:
Thank you Arizahn :)

Bexcy-bee - thank you, that is my point. I've already forked out -scxuse the pun!, £30 at the start of the year for a new fork as someone else burst and bent the prongs on my last one .

Perhaps I should go back to my marigolds then problem solved :p
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Marigolds are awesome...get ones with feathers on! Round the cuffs, not on the hand part, that would be awkward.
 
Feather fingered marigolds would imply a rather different use to me :eek3:

Sorry op, I seem determined to de-rail this thread today!
 
I understand where you're coming from too. I've recently left a yard where a certain person kept insisting on using my buckets to fill up her horses water. One of those buckets was a strictly washing bucket only, it had shampoo, sponges, brushes etc in it, and me having a grey, it is essential that sponges and brushes are kept clean so that when i wash my horse, i actually wash it rather than smudge more dirt from brushes and sponges onto it. But no, this lady did not understand this, so she kept dumping all the stuff out of the bucket onto the floor next to the tap, where it was normally wet and quite muddy, and proceeded to use the buckets, and when she was done with them, she would put them next to her stuff. I did ask her nicely that i would rather she didn't use the washing bucket, she's welcome to use the other one when its not being used by me, but it has to be put back in its place, and the washing bucket with the stuff in it, is to be left alone. She said ok, and the next day did what she always did, dumped my stuff in a muddy, soggy heap on the floor, used the buckets and put them beside her stuff.
I locked up all my stuff from then on, grrrr infuriating woman!
 
Mad Cat Lemmings sounds like they spend ages at the top of a cliff thinking 'I'm going over', 'No, I don't think I will just yet', 'No, definitely going over', 'Changed my mind...'.
 
Manners cost nothing - and that applies to both parties.

A polite "oh this is my personal broom, communal brooms are here" probably would have sufficed, opposed to storming and grunting. She might have though you were using one of the yard brooms?? Either which way, she should have asked, but pregnant hormones or not, it is only a broom!

Get some paint and clearly label them as yours.
 
Anyhow, OP you realise you must get a tiny pony for your baby to learn on? And a cleaning robot to do the stables - sorted!
 
RunToEarth said:
Asides from my OCD biggest straw beds ever...
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*chuckle*
Memories of my first yard owner bellowing at my 12-year old self as she caught me sneaking more straw into pony's stable: "You're bedding the b****y animal, not burying it!!"

OP - I totally sympathise, always get people like that on yards though ;-) Couple of winters ago I took pity on a woman who was desperate for livery...HUGE mistake, she helped herself to, well, anything of mine she wanted. She told my OH we "shared everything"!!! Completely barmy.
 
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I feel your pain, OP, I've had brooms borrowed from inside my stable when the horse was in then left in pieces outside when whoever borrowed them broke them. It was like they were saying 'Oops, I broke this, could you get a new one for me, please?'

I've had people take my stuff just as I'm about to muck out, it's annoying! My brand new expensive headcollar got used for a feisty youngster who kept rearing, owner didn't ask then flung it in her section. I only found it when a mate told me she'd used it, it was my only one, so I wasn't being fussy, I needed it!

I'm afraid I've growled at one or two of the kids on the riding school section when they've borrowed a leadrope that a rearing pony snapped, a headcollar that's been left in a puddle or my very distinctive barrow has disappeared. Mostly, it's for convenience cos they can't be bothered to wander the yard looking for where they left the yard's tools.

Yes, they're only tools, but I like nice tools, I paid quite a few quid for a really decent shavings fork/broom/barrow and they're not communal!
 
Capriole said:
Mad Cat Lemmings sounds like they spend ages at the top of a cliff thinking 'I'm going over', 'No, I don't think I will just yet', 'No, definitely going over', 'Changed my mind...'.
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Aye, until their evil cat minions sneak up behind them and push them over the edge! We all know they're secretly planning our demise and just waiting for the appropriate opportunity :eek3:
 
JFTD said:
Aye, until their evil cat minions sneak up behind them and push them over the edge! We all know they're secretly planning our demise and just waiting for the appropriate opportunity :eek3:
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Mine are apparently bored waiting...they have me surrounded! Made mistake of giving dogs milk to distract them from stealing the carving knife, and now cats are jealous. Am doomed.
 
A yard I was on someone borrowed my fairly new Albion jumping saddle complete with brand new sprengers without asking. Turned up and they were happily trotting round the school using it.
 
I'm with you OP. I have had to chase down my barrow and the person asked "oh, do you need it?" in a tone of voice that clearly suggested I was the unreasonable one.

I had my fork stolen and then returned outside my stable in two pieces when it was no longer of any use to the thief.

Someone also borrowed my lovely equus reins and while they were at it left their damaged ones attached to my bridle!

However I have met some of the best, most loyal friends I have on livery yards so I would not like to tar everyone with the same (borrowed) brush.
 
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I'm with OP - it drives me nuts to find my stuff missing. I have no problems with people using certain things, provided the put them back in the same condition and place they were. But other than that, no I don't find it acceptable.
 
Can completely understand OP's reaction, it IS annoying when people know they should be asking before just taking - and can't be bothered. Repeatedly.

Over the years of being on a very large diy yard I resigned myself to the fact that if I got any new/nice stuff it'd be 'borrowed' and then turn up broken outside my stable or in the muckheap some months later. At one point the only working wheelbarrows on the yard were ones I'd bought in the past - three wheelbarrows to the entire yard because everyone else had broken the rest either through overfilling, leaving them in the rain or bored kids giving each other wheelbarrow rides. YO stopped buying them. I stopped buying them too and got myself a trug instead - nobody stole that. Then the worst borrow-and-breaker on the yard caved and bought her own wheelbarrow, then had the nerve to post a huge notice on the board stating it was for her use only and nobody was to touch it without her permission. It didn't work!

I've emigrated now and miss the dynamics of a big yard, but now I'm on a tiny yard with full livery if and when I want it and it's wonderful. Nobody steals anything, my tack box is untouched. I can finally buy nice things and not watch them be destroyed within months. It's a unique feeling actually wearing gear out rather than losing them to the borrowers.
 
While the response was perhaps OTT I feel the OPs pain. Like most people I don't mind the occasional borrowing & anyone is free to use my ragfork as long as I'm not & they put it back but I had to have a few words with someone on my yard as they kept using my barrow instead of theirs as "it's far better to handle & ours is too small". Gave then the website details where they could get their own then left mine full or hidden for a few days until they got the message.
At old yard you couldn't leave anything out without YO using it & just leaving it where she had last used it. As she had 10 that could mean a fair bit of hunting around to find your own pooper scooper.
 
ugh.
ours are at home but i dread the day i ever have to have them in livery (hopefully never).

id be sugary sweet the first time and ask nicely, point out its mine, and after that id go dip*****-i dont buy stuff for anyone other than myself and NMT.

we have one super livery/helper/friend on our yard at mo, and we do share barrows and tools a bit but we are all ultra careful, always put every item back in the hay store and if anything got bent or broken it would be replaced the same day. if we want to borrow/try anything else we all ask first. this works fine but theres only the 3 of us, on a big yard i dont think it would work so well.
 
op i am so with you on this one!!! I have a DIY lady on my yard who felt it was fine to turn up with no tools as she could use mine!!! errrr no! she used my wheelbarrow in first week and her horse trampled it and trashed it, she still hasnt replaced it but thinks its fine to use my other wheelbarrow, which she also broke but my dad managed to fix it!! have asked her several times to GET HER OWN!!

I actually have to lock my tools in my tackroom now which is a pain as takes me longer before work in a morning to unlock and muck out and then relock!! she constantly moans that all she has is a rubbish garden fork which is useless and half a brush and is constantly asking for mine!! the answer is no!!! thing is i do everything on a budget and so if tools get broke i would struggle to replace them!!! hence i now only have one barrow!!!

She wont replace anything she breaks, her pony kicked the stable wall out and pulled the door off she just expects it will fix itself ( even though contract says your horse breaks it you pay to fix it) so i have no chance of her replacing tools!
 
I've had people use all of my fly spray. My lady few sections of hay as they'd run out. My hoof stuff. My electric fencing raft is just taken down ready to move yards. Hid my girth. Lunge canvasson. Took my buckets and hay nets when they moved yards. Broke my muck fork and a wheel barrow that cost me 50quid to replace. All this while I was a student and earning less than 500 a month and trying to pay for 2 horses. And these where people who all earned around 30k a year. Makes me angry.
 
Nix123 I actually was fairly polite. They were having a lesson so I waited til it had finished. Then told them not to touch my stuff again. Unfortunately it happened a lot on that yard. They used my horses head collar to bring in a new horse they'd bought from somewhere and he then got a fungal infection on his face. They used my blue chip feed all the time. I didn't stay long after the saddle incident. It was a huge yard and whilst I don't mind people borrowing things I'd like to be asked. Oh and they borrowed my lorry and although they did ask they used all my diesel and didn't replace it or give me any money.
 
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