A stud divider is a trailer divider that goes all the way to the floor of the trailer.  It's supposed to keep an excited horse from kicking his neighbour.  A stud wall is a wall that is not covered yet.  It's still under construction.  Like when you are building the living quarters and need to divide the space you build a stud wall and attatch what ever you are going to cover the "studs" with.

We have always called the sliding gate on stock trailers the calf gate. 

No idea what a Rice trailer is.

"calf gate"..... A swinging center cut gate in the across the middle of a stock trailer, may or may not have a portion of the gate that slides. The slider works good while loading calves, you can shut up calves in the front of the trailer while loading in the rear. Prevents calves already loaded from rushing out when the rear gate/door is opened.

"Quote Terri... A stud wall is a wall that is not covered yet."  Terri, I think they mean STUD wall... as in a male equine, stallion thing!!! Not stud wall as in building construction..... Maybe I'm all wrong!! LOL!!

"stud divider", "stud wall"..... A divider in a straight or slant load trailer that goes all the way to the floor, some of these dividers may go all the way to, or near the roof, so a stallion can't get under, or over into another stall...... Works well hauling young green colts and fillies.

Rice.....

A friend of mine bought a new Rice horse trailer back in the early 1980's from a dealer in Texas..... I think it's the only "Rice" brand trailer I've ever seen in person. My guess is it was brought over to Texas from Mexico, from where it was imported from the U.K.

They had a leaf spring and roller setup in the middle/bottom of the ramp to help assist, worked pretty good if the trailer hadn't been sitting in the rain...... The trailers had a jute looking mat on most of their ramps, they would suck up and hold some water....But you wouldn't slip!!!

The rod was a stabilizer, or as I always called it... A "kick stand"!!. Drop it down and fasten it when loading and unloading....Kept the trailer level and kept the trailer tongue from lifting the rear wheels of those 1980 Saab 900 turbo sedans off the ground!!

"Quote Terri... A stud wall is a wall that is not covered yet."  Terri, I think they mean STUD wall... as in a male equine, stallion thing!!! Not stud wall as in building construction..... Maybe I'm all wrong!! LOL!!

Your probally right.  I've been workingon my bathroom all week so it was the only stud wall I could think of at the time.  I hate sanding drywall!! 

Viney,  ck your messages.

I've been wondering what the heck kind of trailer my neighbor down the road has... looks like one of the small 2h Brenderups but it's got those plank-looking sides like the trailer you posted, and a fiberglass or plastic roof.  Doesn't have a nose ramp like that one, but other than that it's identical.  Thank you so much for posting that!  Looks like this is a granddaddy of the Brenderup... has the emergency brake on the tongue and the stabilizer posts you mentioned.  Very interesting!  What are the plank-like sides, aluminum??

I always thought that little area with the gate was for ranch dogs.  Some dogs just can't stay in the bed of the truck and that area seemed to fit them.  Besides, up there the cows couldn't stomp them for chasing them into a pen.  I used to use it for hauling feed/hay so the animals couldn't get to it.

Originally written by wendmil on 2008-07-01 6:05 PM

Learned something new.  I always thought the 'calf gate' was the slider one (since only a little cow looked like it could get through).  The actual calf gate up in the GN I though was just a neat little addition so you could carry hay and the cows couldn't get to it.....   I always wondered how they'd carry the little ones with the big ones without them getting squished.

Ditto.