Great tip. I towed this trailer for the first time at the weekend and was given a quick run through of do's and don't's by a very experienced horse man of over 45 years experience and he loaded the bars in with the curved end on the wall side, the wrong side according to you, but when you explain it and show how it functions it makes perfect sense to do as you have shown.
Great Tip Gary and one that can get people out of a lot of trouble, I thought at first you were going to suggest changing the allen bolts for Eye bolts like Ifor Williams now have on their newer trailers. I know someone who's horse breached the front bar and got stuck and she hadn't got the tool to take it off, by the time she flagged a lorry driver down to help her, the horse was so stressed she couldn't get him to load back on and had to ride him back home over twenty miles. He never loaded the same after that it's great that you have placed this video up here I think its a point overlooked by many until it either happens to their horse or one they know. I'm sure some smart-arse will say it shouldn't happen if its tied up right or bars set right, but some of them have never had a Welsh Section D.
Great tip. I towed this trailer for the first time at the weekend and was given a quick run through of do's and don't's by a very experienced horse man of over 45 years experience and he loaded the bars in with the curved end on the wall side, the wrong side according to you, but when you explain it and show how it functions it makes perfect sense to do as you have shown.
Great Tip Gary and one that can get people out of a lot of trouble, I thought at first you were going to suggest changing the allen bolts for Eye bolts like Ifor Williams now have on their newer trailers. I know someone who's horse breached the front bar and got stuck and she hadn't got the tool to take it off, by the time she flagged a lorry driver down to help her, the horse was so stressed she couldn't get him to load back on and had to ride him back home over twenty miles. He never loaded the same after that it's great that you have placed this video up here I think its a point overlooked by many until it either happens to their horse or one they know.
I'm sure some smart-arse will say it shouldn't happen if its tied up right or bars set right, but some of them have never had a Welsh Section D.
Top tip,!
Is there not quick release on the partition too. Therefore once removed it will fall and hit the trailor rather than destroy your middle partition.
You would need to be in the trailer to release it, which could be dangerous with a worried horse
I have one of the older trailers an i cant put the pin in from left to right its front to back