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Location: FL | Do the majority of you cover or store your trailer? I live in Florida and my trailer is exposed 24/7 - I was debating whether I should purchase a portable shed for protection. Is necessary to protect the trailer from rain, sun, and so forth?? |
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Location: East Tennessee, USA, Planet Earth | My trailer has been stored inside my pole shed since the day I brought it home. The only time it's outside is when it's going down the road, or I'm horse camping. My pole shed has a cement floor, so...there's not ground moisture issues.  |
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Location: southeast U.S.A. | IcePonyGoddess, Alot off topic I know but just curious what happened to Spazz? Ardly |
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Location: NY | I was told that covering the trailer will trap wetness I have my all allumina trailer in storage it is also safer out of site out of mine |
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Location: central sierra nevada foothills | Well. when you have no other place but a cattle ranch to store your trailer the great outdoors can wreck havoc on the outside, tires, inside, etc. See my website below for my trailer renovation! Anyways, my trailer is covered all winter with one of those tarps that covers the gravel trailers on big rigs. My husband picked up two on his job, they were gonna toss them since they were used. Nothing is wrong with them! It's easy to climb up and put on and take off, but I've got this down packed too! In the summer it is off........... |
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Location: East Tennessee, USA, Planet Earth | Originally written by Ardly on 2007-02-28 11:31 PM IcePonyGoddess, Alot off topic I know but just curious what happened to Spazz? Ardly  spazz was a good little rattie. he is missed. |
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Location: southeast U.S.A. | Sorry to here of "Spazz's demise". Had a barn full of his cousins a few years back ti'll momma kitty and her grown up offspring cleaned house! Ardly |
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| I was once told by a top automotive painter that even tho moisture,ect.is hard on steel and aluminum goods,the SUN is the biggest enemy. There are companies that make good tarps to cover horse trailers,and they don't let moisture penetrate the tarp to the surfaces below.Pricey but worth it IMO. I am just lucky to have grown up on a farm that now has a big empty tractor shed where I keep our trailers.It's a few miles away,little inconvenient to run them back and forth,but I'm glad to have them.If I didn't I think I would have a trailer cover of some kind.I've always wondered just how easy it is to struggle one of those monstrosities over a trailer tho,especially a good sized trailer/tarp. |
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Location: East Tennessee, USA, Planet Earth | Originally written by Ardly on 2007-03-01 11:00 PM Sorry to here of "Spazz's demise". Had a barn full of his cousins a few years back ti'll momma kitty and her grown up offspring cleaned house!  HAHAHA!!Hum...those would have been spazz's cousins from the "other side" of the tracks.  |
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Location: Southern New Mexico | I've always wondered just how easy it is to struggle one of those monstrosities over a trailer tho,especially a good sized trailer/tarp. I'll let you know as soon as the wind settles down. We just bought a cover for our 33ft 5th wheel camper. |
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Location: Le Claire IA | Are we talking tarps or the RV type covers. I saw the RV type for a horse trailer and thought about that myself.
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Location: Western WA | Buyer beware on trailer covers! I bought a 5th wheel-type cover from Camping World for my trailer, the under-trailer ties popped off within a month of it going on the trailer. Warranty only covered manufacturing defects and specifically does not cover wind damage. In hindsight, the cover didn't fit the trailer that well. 5th wheels are taller so the sides were too long, so the straps wouldn't pull tight, so it billowed in the wind and popped the ties off. With some of the ties off it wore big holes in the corners, and finally popped the rest of the ties and blew off. I am hoping to build a pole building to store it in, but in the meantime am going to look at a higher quality cover with a better warranty. |
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Location: Southern New Mexico | That stinks, those things aren't cheap to buy. My horse trailer is getting a big tarp for now, its the 5th wheel we are putting the cover on. |
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Location: FL | Where can purchase a horse trailer tarp? |
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Location: Southern New Mexico | Valley vet has them. Most tack catalogs have them. |
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Location: Maine | A trailer dealer once told me never to use a "trailer cover" on my steel trailer. She said, at least for here in New England, they were not advisable because when the wind picks up (which seems to be all the time in the winter here) the covers can actually scratch the paint. Anyone else ever hear or experience anything like this? I have just ordered a new trailer and I want to keep it out of the New England weather, so I was thinking of having lean-to built. A cover would certainly be cheaper! |
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Location: White Mills, Ky. | We covered our steel trailer this year. Hubby was worried about sun damage to the AC unit and the awning. Ordered the cover from BeverlyBay.com. Ordered it by phone and it arrived in less than 10 days. They have several styles and prices to choose from. We chose one of the less expensive "universal" styles...it was around $120. Hubby was able to get it on the trailer by himself but said in the future he will ask for help! I googled "Beverly Bay trailer covers" which gave me the website and got the phone number from there. Hope this helps. Good luck. RIDE ON! |
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