Yard storage ideas

[poiuytrewq]

The plan had been to keep my horse that’s just come home in a turnout pen with a shelter. Since he left one of the ponies has moved into his stable and I’ve been using the ”Shetland shed” as storage.
However he keeps trying to go back into his old house! So I’ve had a re- shuffle. He’s happily back in (not looking forward to mucking him out, that’s one bit I haven’t missed about him )
Ponies only stand in for the day so the littlest is fine in the shed. It does mean finding homes for all the stuff that’s collected in it.
My tack room and feed shed are not on the yard, they are just across at the house so some stuff I will bring back here but some I want over there for easy access.
I used to have a garden storage cupboard but the doors snapped so now it’s just shelf unit and needs to be undercover.
I don’t want to spend a fortune but it must be dry and lockable, not because it will have anything of value but because tiny ponies will ransack anything just in case and i do quite often just let the free roam

 

[Roasted Chestnuts]

The plastic bin sheds are amazing. Yea can be a bit costly but it will last for years my friend has had hers for 7/8 years now and it’s still in great nick.

 

[Abacus]

The bike type sheds are also good, and lockable. Like this but there are lots similar, in wood, plastic and metal.

Metal Large Storage Garden Shed Bike Unit Tools Bicycle Store 225x88x125cm | eBay

The storage cabin is made of hot dipped galvanised steel with an anti-rusting and anti-corrosion finish in black. Two doors and a pent roof maximise your accessibility to the cabin. By adding a pad lock to the lockable door bolt, you can assure the security of your properties.

www.ebay.co.uk

 

[poiuytrewq]

Ohh thanks, I'd been looking at just boxes but these sound much better. My tall cupboard thingy was too unstable outside so had ruled out another of those out but these two options being lower and wider should be fine. I have used the broken one to put tools in wedges round the side of the stables out of sight, Hoping with heavy stuff in the base (tins of paint!!) it may stay upright.
I'll have to have a measure and see whats the biggest I can fit into the space I want to use.

 

[Fjord]

Metal feed bins for storage are good, but they do have pointy corners so I don't know if they could cause an injury if a pony got silly.

 

[Highmileagecob]

Chest or upright redundant freezers are ok too, especially if you can construct a sloping roof over them, like a lean to arrangement. To save looking like a scrap yard, you could spray paint them, and fix a sheep gate across the entrance of the lean to.

 

[dottylottie]

bin storage things, like this -
and garden storage boxes for rugs and such, could maybe put one in the stable providing none of them would climb it? for things you want in easy reach like grooming kit etc

 

[poiuytrewq]

Chest or upright redundant freezers are ok too, especially if you can construct a sloping roof over them, like a lean to arrangement. To save looking like a scrap yard, you could spray paint them, and fix a sheep gate across the entrance of the lean to.

I'm half wondering actually about a lean too type thing. I have the stables in a line along the back and then the shetland shed makes them a L shape, there is space to walk between the two so an area thats not visible and wasted.
Solid block wall one side, the shed wall and wooden side of the stables make a rough triangular area.
This is where i was planning to put storage but i wonder if i could make it into a bit of a make shift shelter.

 

[Jambarissa]

The keter bin stores are great but unless you have something really heavy in there can blow away. Then again pretty much anything plastic can blow away.

I love a wheelie bin for rarely used stuff that you can pack into bags or boxes and drop in and they last forever.