Posted 2006-04-19 12:26 PM (#40675) Subject: Tying Hay bags in trailer
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Location: Cheshire, Oregon
I used a regular trailer tie to hang a hay bag in my slant load trailer. I shortened it as much as possible but it is still hangs too low. I was wondering what other folks use to tie them up higher. Baling twine just seems too risky . I don't normally need hay bags but we are doing longer traveling with our new trailer now. If I had to I could restitch the trailer tie if my sewing machine would go through that thick webbing...
Posted 2006-04-19 1:27 PM (#40678 - in reply to #40675) Subject: RE: Tying Hay bags in trailer
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What I did was run the trailer tie through that loop and fasten it to where a feed bag would normally be hooked. You can run it back through again to shorten it or you can also run it back up to the tie ring. Either of those might help you.
Posted 2006-04-19 4:43 PM (#40685 - in reply to #40675) Subject: RE: Tying Hay bags in trailer
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Thanks for the ideas. Yes, the trailer tie is not going to break any easier than twine, but the one time I needed to unhook it quickly, it was easy to pull on the panic snap to release the bag. I have one Houdini horse that can get his leg up really high (this is also the horse that can get any bridle off if he feels like it while standing still!).
Posted 2006-04-19 7:39 PM (#40689 - in reply to #40675) Subject: RE: Tying Hay bags in trailer
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Unless your traveling for a extened period of time, I wouldn't feed them in the trailer espcially if you have a horse who can get their foot caught in a hay bag.
Posted 2006-04-19 9:13 PM (#40694 - in reply to #40675) Subject: RE: Tying Hay bags in trailer
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I have an honest question... I was always taught to tie with bailing twine, but it sounds as though it is looked upon as a bad thing? What are your thoughts on tying a loop of bailing twine around the tie ring and then attaching the trailer tie or hay bag to that?
Posted 2006-04-19 9:31 PM (#40695 - in reply to #40675) Subject: RE: Tying Hay bags in trailer
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I use a bucket hanger strap. I think that's what they're called. Has a loop on one end to attach to the hay bag and a clip on the other end. Very short. I use a hay bag (not net)hung high. I cannot use my corner feed bag as it is too low and my gelding has pawed his front leg over it at least twice and gotten hung up.
Posted 2006-04-19 10:08 PM (#40698 - in reply to #40675) Subject: RE: Tying Hay bags in trailer
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I use hay NETS in the H2H trailer.
I know they're not the same as hay BAGS, but I tie them so that the horses can't get tangled in them - well, never say a horse can never get itself into difficulty (-:
I have a double ended snap on the end of the drawstring.
I hang the net as high as I need to, usually with it's max diameter at the height of the chest bar. Then I bring the cord down and tie it around the post and the top of the hay ball as low as I can - and finally snap it into the lowest point I can in the net. This makes a tight ball of the hay, all the cords are gathered up and secured, it doesn't swing around and it is tight to the post. There are NO loose loops for horse heads to get into. I saw SOMEBODY'S horse wearing a hay net like a hair net one time, if I hadn't gone to get it out before it panicked I could have got one of the BEST goofy horse photos.
Posted 2006-04-20 11:32 PM (#40768 - in reply to #40675) Subject: RE: Tying Hay bags in trailer
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On a two horse straight load, what about a "basket"? It attaches in the four corners and is made of canvas. I also saw the classic equine top load hay bag, which seems like a really nice design.
Posted 2006-04-21 6:54 AM (#40772 - in reply to #40768) Subject: RE: Tying Hay bags in trailer
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Originally written by dressager on 2006-04-20 12:32 AM
On a two horse straight load, what about a "basket"? It attaches in the four corners and is made of canvas. I also saw the classic equine top load hay bag, which seems like a really nice design.
I have the 4 corner "trays" in the small trailer, they work well, I like them, there is far less hay thrown on the floor, the horses tell me that they can easily retrieve anything that they drop (-:
They clip almost flat against the front wall when empty and are out of the way for loading/unloading.
I've been trying to do something like that in the head to head trailer, but the empty space in the middle would mean a mess of cross ropes or chains to hang them from.
Tying Hay bags in trailer
. I don't normally need hay bags but we are doing longer traveling with our new trailer now. If I had to I could restitch the trailer tie if my sewing machine would go through that thick webbing...
