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Location: Belton, MO | With it being so hot lately. Someone told me to not open the roof vents forward but backwards so it will suck the heat out of the trailer with the windows open / down. Thoughts? |
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Location: pineville,mo | That's the only way I haul in any weather as long as you have other windows on buttside and a rear window in c back and of course drop downs on head side with bars up tried it other way with vents and horses really got hot
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Location: western PA | Opening the vents forward will force outside air into the trailer when it's moving. For maximum affect, you will need to have a side window open to vent this ram air. This will increase the airflow into the trailer, and usually direct some air directly onto the horses. When the vent is opened rearward, as you said, there will be a vacuum created, which will suck the air from the trailer. This will be a lower volume of airflow, but is useful during colder weather when direct airflow onto the horses is unwanted. Partially opening a side window will also effect the same condition. Opening the back door windows will pull outside air into the trailer. Depending on the weather and outside temps, you can vary the airflow through out the trailer by manipulating the various orifices. |
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Location: Texas | speaking of manipulating the various orifices... |
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| I'd suggest you take a ride in your trailer and try the vents in different positions. In a trailer I had, opening them to the front caused no air to come in, despite what I thought it would. Talking to a racing buddy, and he said the dirty air on the trailer probably wasn't actually there to be pushed in. I opened them backwards and got better airflow coming in the side & out the top.
Can't speak for your setup, but a 15 minute ride down the road sure was interesting to me. |
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Location: Decatur, Texas | Our trailer is 7'-6" tall and 8' wide and I never open my top vents any more.... After riding in it with the vents both ways I could not tell any difference at all and neither the did thermometer. We do have 3 large drop down windows on the head side, 1 large one on the hip and the other 2 hip windows and rear door windows are large as well.Not sure if our flow or lack of flow from the vents is because of all the stuff on the roof for the LQ, but I do know it get plenty of cool air thru it with what we have..... |
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Location: Central Florida | I second Guard on this. Forward when it's hot, backward when it's cold for ventilation. Sometimes I have to haul in traffic, so I installed a couple of small metal fans. That helps a LOT too!! The only time forward sucks is if it rains but the horses do not seem to care much. |
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Veteran
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Location: NC | i have "flettner" vents in my trailer. they are round weatherproof (no rain comes in) vents that are wind powered. while i am going down the road they spin from the wind and suck all the hot air out of the trailer (but since they suck air up and out it doesnt cause the shavings/dust to fly around), i do keep windows open for airflow but the vents are awesome, and make a huge difference in the temperature of the inside of the trailer. |
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Location: Lawrence KS | A few observations from going for a ride in the back of my horse trailer.- It is easier to stand up and move around than I would have thought.- It is a pretty smooth ride, except for gravel roads, gravel is loud and causes trailer to rattle a lot.- There isn't as much air flow into the face of the horse as I would have thought, although it is plenty.- Vents facing forward or backwards didn't seem to effect the amount of airflow into windows.- If your not going to open the vents forward when it is hot out you might as well close them. |
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