This message is from: Jean Ernest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My 12'. open stock trailer has a gate about 4' from the front. I have padded two 2x6s and use them as chest or butt bars in front of the metal gate (on the horse side) so my horse can lean against them, or back up against them. this leaves an open compartment for the horse that is about 8' long by 6' wide (width of trailer). If I were trailering two horses I would have to tie them, certainly, but find that letting one horse loose in this 6' x 8' space works well. The solid metal divider is about 4' high. the space in the front of the trailer is where I can carry a saddle, tack box, feed, buckets, etc.
Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, still melting and mucky. will be 50 degrees today! >I trailer my one horse in a 16 ft. open stock trailer, but would never let >her just loose to wander in it. What if I had a sudden stop or >whatever? She would be thrown who knows where and down and everything. >I tie her up front at a slant and have a chest high bar to keep her in >place because my cart or marathon takes up the rest of the space and I >don't want her stepping or bumping into it.
